Mantras and Prayers are used to induce different states of consciousness.
The worldly everyday consciousness is that of people screaming at us, media trying to capture our attention, friends and family telling us what direction to move in, cell phone notifications and ring tones. and our own stories of what we think reality is or ought to be. It is noisy, scrambled and highly judgmental and subliminal.
What if we could move inward and upward to a state of consciousness that is of balance, that has no judgement, that is of peace and contentment, that unites us to loving awareness? A student said to me today. "I just want to keep my zen!" Well, you can!
Mantras and prayers do just this. They move us upward into a more loving vibrational consciousness. This movement upward can last as long as the mantra or the meditation but the more we practice 1. The easier it is to get there, 2. The longer we can sustain this balance until some day it is not the practice anymore, it is a way of contented living. The way of Santosha.
Om Shanti Mantra
Om Shanti, Shanti, Shantih
Om Shanti, Shanti, Shantih
Om Shanti, Shanti, Shantih
Translation:
Om Peace, Peace, Peace!
Ganesha
Remover of
Obstacles
Path Clearer
Om Gam Ganapataye Namaha
Om Gam Ganapataye Namaha
Om Gam Ganapataye Namaha
The Peace Prayer
Prayer of Saint Francis
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
Where there is injury, pardon.
Where there is doubt, faith.
Where there is despair, hope.
Where there is darkness, light.
There there is sadness, joy.
O Divine Master,
Grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console;
To be understood, and to understand; To be loved, as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive.
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
And it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
Sarveshaam Mantra
Om Sarveshaam Svastir Bhavatu
Sarveshaam Shaantir Bhavatu
Sarveshaam Purnam Bhavatu
Sarveshaam Mangalam Bhavatu
Om Shanti Shanti Shantih
Translation:
May Goodness come to everyone
May everyone experience Peace
May everyone experience Wholeness
May everyone experience Auspiciousness
Om Peace Peace Peace