Featured Mantram: Honoring Ancestors
Translation:
From the highest realm to the lowest, as far as the universe extends, let all divine sages and forebearers, all deceased ancestors, on both the father's and mother's side be worshiped. Let this humble offering of sesame and water benefit the whole world, from the heavens down to this earth; may it benefit the inhabitants of the seven continents belonging to unlimited families in the past.Learn more about this mantram...
Mantra as Part of Daily Practice
Mantra (mantram in the singular) are an important part of spiritual practice in many religious traditions. At SHARANYA, we understand mantra to be a core component of individual and…
Honoring the Ancestors
Translation: From the highest realm to the lowest, as far as the universe extends, let all divine sages and forebearers, all deceased ancestors, on both the father’s and mother’s…
Invocation of Ganesha
Translation: We invoke you with offerings, Ganesha, making offerings to you as Love Invoking you with offerings, He of Plentitudes We invoke you with offerings, Ganesha, making offerings to…
Visarjan Mantra
Translation: You who have been welcomed (arisen, embodied in the murti through prāṇa pratiṣṭha), Great Mother Kali, are offered gratitudes and bid farewell. Listen to the mantra: This mantra…
Shantipata: Peace Invocation
Translation: That is perfect; this is perfect. If perfection is taken from the perfect, only the perfect remains. Listen to the mantra: This mantra, from the first verse of…
Kali’s Heart Mantra
Listen to the mantra: This most-auspicious 22-syllable mantra vidya given in the Devirahasya Tantra (The Secret Goddess Tantra) is a potent vibrational elixir that brings together the most powerful…
Pavamana Abhyaroha Mantra
Translation of The Elevated Chant: From untruth to Truth; From darkness to Light; From death to Immortality (of the soul) Lead us! Listen to the mantra: This mantra, from…
Shapodhara Mantra
Translation: OM Atma Tattva, Vidya Tattva, Shiva Tattva and the qualities of manifest and psychic reality; She, Chandi, Goddess of Surrendered Mind By your power the curses are removed…
Vajrayogini (Tara) Mantra
Translation: OM to You, Tara, embodiment of all virtues, savioress, I offer myself always whether I am in happy or unhappy circumstances with my body, speech, and mind Listen…
Gayatri Mantra
Translation: Om in all the worlds, the powers of earth, water and fire, of air, ether, consciousness and ultimate truth, we meditate on the vast reality of the Divine….
Honoring of Ganesha
Translation: Shining like so many suns, you great one with a broken tusk, we implore you, remove all obstacles; remain with us in all we do, always! Great one…
Mala Blessing
Translation: OM this mala of mine, Great Maya, She who knows the limits of time and space, you who contain all energy, the shakti of our existence and cosmic…
Water Purification
Translation: Life, death, rebirth, we bow to the primordial life-force energy Creation, preservation, dissolution, we bow to Earth’s foundations Maid, Mother, Crone, we bow to the boundless Sun, Moon,…
Namaskara Mantra (Full Version)
Translation: Source of All Blessings, Auspicious One, She Who Is Refuge, She Who Has Three Eyes, Golden One, Bestower of All Wishes, Blessed of All Blessed Ones, I honor…
Wine Blessing Mantra
Translation: Nectar of immortality, which in form contains pure knowledge at the highest stage of identity with the Divine,You are this nectar of immortality; let this substance become filled…
Mantra of the Three-Eyed Shiva
Translation: Oh, Three-Eyed One, we adore you. Your sweet fragrance permeates all and brings abundance. Like the cucumber separated from the vine, Free us from attachment, But do not…
Seven Rivers Mantra
Translation: Om the Ganges, Jamuna, Godavari, Sarasvati, Narmada, Sindhu and Kaveri, these waters (of the seven sacred rivers of the Indian Subcontinent) are brought together (in order to make…
Shiva Invocation
Translation: Great God, Reliever of Suffering, Great Mover of Energy in the Body (Yogi), Supreme One I hold in my heart (Ishvara), Remover of Difficulty, You who carries the…
Kali’s Names
Translation: I call to you: Kali of the cremation grounds, auspicious Kali, she who bears the skull cup (remover of the ego), secret one and she who is above…
Initiation Mantra
Translation: I know no mantra, I can not act properly in this world, I have no devotion, Divine Mother; but even so my Goddess, please accept what I have…
Praise to Agni
Translation: Agni, God of Fire, we praise you, you who lead the sacrifice and are the power of it; you, oh shining one, who knows the proper time and…
Song to Kali
Translation: Vibration of the Universe, AUM, great goddess Kali, I ponder you who resides in the cremation grounds, (place of the ego’s falling away), may you grant your devotee…
Praise to the Ultimate Mother
Translation: Vibration of the Universe, She Who is all that can be perceived or conceived in the mind, She Who is perfect peace, She Who is the Infinite Beyond…
Namaskara Mantra
Translation: Source of All Blessings, Auspicious One, She Who Is Refuge, She Who Has Three Eyes, Golden One, Bestower of All Wishes, Blessed of All Blessed Ones, I honor…
World Happiness
This famous mantra has no known Vedic textual origin, yet it has been passed down for hundreds (or thousands) of years, and is widely used by virtually all Hindu…
Krishna’s Yoni
This mantra, found in a yantra (divine diagram) in the Brhad Tantra Sara, vibrates together one of the bija (“seed” or “essence”) mantras of Kali, the Great Black Mother…