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  2. Shanti Mantras - Wikipedia

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    Shanti Mantras are invoked in the beginning of some topics of the Upanishads. They are believed to calm the mind and the environment of the reciter. Shanti Mantras always end with the sacred syllable om (auṃ) and three utterances of the word "shanti", which means "peace". The reason for the three utterances is regarded to be for the removal ...

  3. Mantra - Wikipedia

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    The first refers to Hinduism and Buddhism: a word or sound that is believed to have a special spiritual power. The second definition is more general: a word or phrase that is often repeated and expresses a particularly strong belief. For instance, a football team can choose individual words as their own "mantra."

  4. Vedic chant - Wikipedia

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    Hinduism. The oral tradition of the Vedas (Śruti) consists of several pathas, "recitations" or ways of chanting the Vedic mantras. Such traditions of Vedic chant are often considered the oldest unbroken oral tradition in existence, the fixation of the Vedic texts (samhitas) as preserved dating to roughly the time of Homer (early Iron Age).

  5. Om mani padme hum - Wikipedia

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    Om mani padme hum. Oṃ maṇi padme hūm̐[1] (Sanskrit: ॐ मणिपद्मे हूँ, IPA: [õːː mɐɳɪpɐdmeː ɦũː]) is the six-syllabled Sanskrit mantra particularly associated with the four-armed Shadakshari form of Avalokiteshvara, the bodhisattva of compassion. It first appeared in the Mahayana Kāraṇḍavyūhasūtra ...

  6. Om - Wikipedia

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    Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks or boxes, misplaced vowels or missing conjuncts instead of Indic text. Om (or Aum) (listen ⓘ; Sanskrit: ॐ, ओम्, romanized:Oṃ, Auṃ, ISO 15919: Ōṁ) is a symbol representing a sacred sound, syllable, mantra, and an invocation in Hinduism. [ 1 ][ 2 ] Its written ...

  7. Om Tat Sat - Wikipedia

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    Om Tat Sat is a Hindu mantra. Om Tat Sat (Sanskrit: ओम् तत् सत्, Om Tat Sat ⓘ) is the group of three mantras in Sanskrit found in verse 17.23 of the Bhagavad. "Om Tat Sat" is the eternal sound- pranava. "Om Tat Sat" represents the unmanifest and absolute reality. The word "reality" here means total existence.

  8. Shanti - Wikipedia

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    In Sanskrit. Inner peace, a state of being mentally and spiritually at peace, with enough knowledge and understanding to keep oneself strong in the face of discord or stress. Kshanti, one of the paramitas of Buddhism. Shanti Mantras or "Peace Mantras", Hindu prayers or sacred utterances believed by practitioners to have religious, magical or ...

  9. Mundaka Upanishad - Wikipedia

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    The section 1.1 has 9 mantras structured as metered poetic verses. Section 1.2 has 13 verses, section 2.1 has 10 verses, section 2.2 has 11 verses, section 3.1 has 10, and the last section 3.2 has 11 verses. In total, the Upanishad features 64 mantras. [2] [14] Several versions of the Mundaka Upanishad manuscript have been discovered so far.