Mantras and Meanings

These are the spellings and translations I have found for these specific Mantras. There might be other spellings and meanings that you have found as Sanskrit is sometimes translated differently into English.

Lokaha Samasta Sukhino Bhavantu
Meaning: May All beings in all worlds be Blessed with peace, contentment and freedom!

Om Shanti Shanti Shanti
Om Peace Peace Peace

Hari Om Tat Sat
Meaning: God is Truth

Ong Namoh Guru Dev Namoh
Meaning: I bow to, I acknowledge, I call upon the transparent, the infinite wisdom, the Creative Consciousness.

Sat Nam
Meaning: My Identity is Truth

Om Namah Shivaya
Meaning: This mantra has no approximate translation. The sounds related directly to the principles which govern each of the first five chakras on the spine…Earth, Water, Fire, Air, Ether. A very rough, non literal translation could be something like "Om and salutations to that Which I am capable of becoming"

Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya
Meaning: Salutations to the one of Great Splendor

Om Shri Mahalakshmiyei Swaha
Meaning: Om and salutations to that feminine energy which bestows all manner of wealth!

Om Gam Ganapataye Namaha
Meaning: Salutations! Everyone wake up! Gam is Ganesha's seed syllable, Ganapataye is antoher name of Ganesh and Namaha is YO! Ganesha, You da GOD!

Sharanam Ananda Satchidananda
Meaning: True bliss, true refuge, is found in the knowledge of our inner Divine Self.

Om Namah Shivaya Gurave
Satchitananda Murtaye
Nisprapancaya Santaya
Niralambaya Tejase
Meaning: I honor the essence of Being, the Auspicious One, the luminous Teacher within and without.
Who assumes the forms of Truth, Consciousness and Bliss, Is never absent, full of peace, ultimately free and sparkles with a divine luster.

Om Guru Brahma Guru Vishnu
Guru Devo Maheswara
Guru SakShat ParamBrahma
Tasmai Shri Gurave Namaha
Meaning: Our creation is that Guru, The duration of our lives is that Guru, Our trials and death of the body is that guru. There is a guru that is near by and a guru that is beyond the beyond. I off all my efforts to the Guru

Om Asatoma Satgamaya
Tamasoma Jyotir Gamaya
Mrityorma Amritam Gamaya
Om Shanti, Shanti, Shanti
Meaning: Lead us from deception to truth, from darkness to light , from death to blissful immortality, Om Peace Peace Peace!

Twameva Mata, Chapita Twameva
Twameva Bhandus, Chasaka Twameva
Twameva Vidyea, Dravenam Twameva
Twameva Sarvum, Mama Deva Deva
Meaning: Oh God of Gods, thou alone art my mother, father, relative, friend,
Learning and wealth. Thou art my own light of lights!

Sarva Mangala Mangalye
Shive Sarvartha Sadhike
Sharnye Tryambake Gauri
Narayani Namostute
Meaning: Oh the auspicious Goddess who grants all things we seek! I salute the three eyed Divine Mother Narayani, who brings auspiciousness and who fulfills all the desires.

Saraswati Namastubyam
Varadey Kaamaroopini
Vidyaaramabham Karisyaami
Siddhir Bhavantu Mey Sadaa
Meaning: Goddess Saraswati! I prostrate to thee who bestows knowledge and wisdom. I commence my studies with the request that thou grant me success

Om Tryambakam Yajamahe
Sugandhim Pushtivardhanam
Vrvarukamiva Bandhanan
Mrityor Mukshiya Maamritat
Meaning: We meditate on the three eyed reality, which permeates and nourishes all like a frangrance. May we be liberated from death for the sake of immortality, Even as the cucumber is severed from bondage to the creeper.

Om Bhoor Bhuwah Swaha
Tat Savitur Varenyam
Bhargo Devasaya Dheemahi
Dhiyo Yo Nah Prachodayat
Meaning: Oh God! Thou art the giver of life, remover of pain and sorrow, The bestower of Happiness. Oh! Creator of the Universe, May we receive thy supreme sin destroying light. May Thou guide our intellect in the right direction.

Om Shri Vakratunda Mahakaya
Sury Koti Samaprabha
Nirvighnam Kuru Me Deva
Sarva Karyesu Sarvada
Meaning: Oh Lord Ganesha of the curved trunk and massive body, the one whose splendor is equal to millions of Suns, Please bless me so that I do not face any obstacles in my endeavors.
Om Saha Navavatu
Saha Nau Bhunaktu
Saha Viryam karavavahai
Tejasvi navadhitamastu ma vidvisavahai
Meaning: May he protects us both together, May he nourish us both together, May we both work with strength together. May our study have brilliance. May be not be antagonistic towards one another.

>Kayena Vaca Manasendriyairva
Buddhyatmana Va Prakrteh Svabhavat
Karomi Yadyatsakalam Parasmai
Narayanayeti Samarpayami

Meaning: Whatever I do with my body, speech, mind or senses, Intellect, self or due to my natural disposition and constitution, all of these I offer completely to the Supreme Narayana.

Om Purnamadah Purnamidam
Purnat Purnamudacyate
Purnasya Purnamadaya
Purnamevavasisyate
Om Shanti Shanti Shanti
Meaning: Om That is Whole. This is Whole. From that which is whole, this which is whole is produced. Taking the whole from the whole, verily the whole remains.

Karpuragauram Karunavataram
Samsarasaram Bhujagendraharam
Sada Vasantam Hrdayyaravinde
Bhavam Bhavani Sahitam Namami
Meaning: Pure white like camphor, the incarnation of compassion, the essence of the world, wearing the Lord of Snakes as a necklace, always dwelling within the lotus of the Heart, to Shiva accompanied by Bhavani, I Bow!

Sarve Bhavantu Sukhinah
Sarve Santu Niramayaah
Sarve Bhadrani Pashyantu
Maa Kashchit Dukhabhahg Bhavett
Meaning: May all be happy. May all be healthy. May all experience what is good and let no one suffer.

Adi Shakti
Sarab Shakti
Prithum Bhagvatee
Namo Namah
Kundalini Mata Shakti
Meaning: I call upon the Primal Power. I call upon the Eternal Power. I call upon the power of LOVE. I call upon the kundalini, the Mother energy.

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare
Meaning: This sixteen name, thirty two syllable mantra is believed to bring about a higher state of consciousness when heard, spoken, meditated upon, or sung out loud. This higher consciousness ultimately takes the form of pure love (Krishna).

Om Namah Shivaya Shivaya Namah Om
Shambo Shankara Namah Shivaya
Girija Shankara Namah Shivaya
Aruna Chella Shivaya Namah Shivaya
Meaning: Invoking the energies of Shiva, the cosmic dancer and great meditator, the words mean Om in the name of Shiva.

BUDDHIST MANTRAS

Om Mani Padme Hum
Meaning: Om Salutations to the jewel of consciousness (the mind) which has reached the heart's lotus

Gate Gate Para Gate Parasamgate Bodhi Swaha
Meaning: Gone, Gone, real gone, gone beyond even the most gone. To that One I offer my Self

Om Tara Tuttare Ture Soha
Meaning; "OM! O Tara! I entreat you, O Tara! O swift one! Hail!

Metta Prayer
May I be Safe and Protected. May I be Happy and Peaceful. May I be Healthy and Strong. May I have Ease of Well Being.