Mantras and chants have already become bywords in the modern world. In fact, mantra simply means phrases uttered repeatedly. In the practice of Yoga, Hindu chants help the mind to focus and produce a state of contemplation or meditation even if the words are not understandable to the person chanting. According to gurus, it is important to find a mantra that will communicate with you. If you are chanting for peace, consider these top five passages:
SUTRA of PEACE (Om Purnam adah)
Om Puurnnam-Adah Puurnnam-Idam Puurnnaat-Puurnnam-Udacyate |
Puurnnasya Puurnnam-Aadaaya Puurnnam-Eva-Avashissyate ||
Om Shaantih Shaantih Shaantih
This is believed to be ideal for reduction of stress and development of deep inner peace. Om Purnamadah Purnamidam also connects with the vast or boundless source of energy as well as creativity. Music has the capacity to soothe the mind and heal but it becomes more formidable with if we mix music with chanting. Spiritual leaders say our chants augment the effects of music by around 1,000 times. The sounds and vibration of our voices transmit healing pulsations throughout the body.
Om (outer world) is Purna (full of divine or heavenly consciousness). Inner world also refers to Purna. The world is manifested from the fullness of divine consciousness.
Peace Within and Without
Mantras are recited and create potent sound vibrations within the human mind. We chant them over and over again. Each chant quiets the mind. Vibrations give rise to a sense of peace and the purpose within. Try to select your preferred mantra in a quiet room and time when there will be fewer distractions. Begin by chanting the mantra aloud seven times. After this, chant it softly also for seven times and quietly for seven times. Then, stop counting and repeat the mantra without a sound repeatedly.
One chant that is recited frequently at the end of prayers, vespers, invocations, and rituals is meant for calling. It also serves as reminder for all of us (for Shanti or Peace). It is peace in Sanskrit scriptures. It is divine or celestial peace (within and without). Om Shanti, Om Shanti…
Peaceful Life
For those seeking a peaceful life, recite the mantra, “Sarveshaam Svaastir Bhavatu, Sarveshaam Svaastir Bhavatu, Saveshaam Poornam Bhavatu, Sarveshaam Mangalam Bhavatu, Om Shanti, and Shanti Shanteeh.” This indicates peace and stillness or harmony. The axiom means:
“May health abound forever”
“May peace abound forever”
“May complete abundance abound forever”
“May auspiciousness abound forever”
It is all a matter of peace!
Health, Potency, and Peace
There are a number of mantras that can supposedly lead to peace. Peace can be obtained by chanting “Om Shanti, Shanti, and Shanti.”
Prayer of Praise
The two words are Gayatri Mantra or Prayer of Praise. It stimulates the essential energies and ensures deliverance or release from lack of knowledge. The connotation is the supreme one is the physical, astral or cosmological and) underlying worlds. You represent the source of all deserving of adoration and worship. Likewise, you boost the mental power towards liberty or deliverance.
Gayatri Mantra is venerated of all the common mantras in the Rigveda or ancient anthology of Vedic Sanskrit chants. It is commonly used in Yoga sessions and is known for vibrations on the physical body and mental faculties. Extended reiteration of the Gayatri Mantra can release the minds and hearts to the endless potentials in life.