Category: Chants

SITA RAM, SITA RAM, SITA RAM, JAYA SITA RAM May Rama and Sita triumph *** Ram and Sita represent the ideal couple with immense love, affection, feeling of sacrifice for each other and respect for each other’s existence. Sita is known to be the most perfect model of a devoted wife and ideal mother. Rama, …

OM ASATOMA SATGAMAYA TAMASOMA JYOTIR GAMAYA MRITYORMA AMRITAM GAMAYA From ignorance, lead me to truth; From darkness, lead me to light; From death, lead me to immortality ASAT > Unreal, Non-existence, Untruth, Ignorance MA > Me SAT > Reality, Truth, GAMAYA > Move, Lead TAM > Darkness, Ignorance JYOTI > Light, Clarity, Purity MRITYOR > …

THE PEACE MANTRA Om Sarvesham Svastir Bhavatu Sarvesham Shantir Bhavatu Sarvesham Purnnam Bhavatu Sarvesham Mangalam Bhavatu May there be well being in all May there be peace in all May there be fulfillment in all May there be auspiciousness in all This chant is expressing a profound and genuine wish for all beings to experience …

  OM ANANDHAM NAMAH My actions are blissfully free from attachment to outcome. Part of the work we do and the responsibility we have as yogis is to raise awareness and bring change to the world through our actions. We take action not because we have to or have been told so, but because we …

GURU SATYAM GURU JNANAM GURU ANANDAM GURU SHANTIH My teacher is truth, my teacher is wisdom My teacher is bliss, my teacher is peace GU means ignorance: that which obscures Truth. RU means: that which removes. The guru is the agent by which ignorance is removed so that the Truth can be revealed. The quest …

TIVRA SAMVEGANAM ASANAM / 1.21 Yoga Sutras of Patanjali The highest yogic results will come quickly to those who practice asana intensely on a daily basis. Weaved into the focus of the week which is tapas, (absolutely not to be confused with the Spanish appetizers) this chant reminds us that just like the locomotive needs …

Guru Brahma, Guru Vishnu Guru Devo Maheshwara Guru Shakshat, Param Brahmah Tasmaye Shri Guruvey Namah (Our creation is that guru, the duration of our lives is that guru, our trials, illnesses and calamities are our guru. There is a guru that is nearby and a guru that is beyond the beyond. I humbly make my …

  SHIVA SHIVA SHIVA SHAMBHO, MAHADEVA SHAMBO Hail to the supreme, the auspicious one who brings happiness and joy, who dwells in the hearts of all. This chant obviously praises the joyous and auspicious aspect of Shiva. Shiva represents our higher, best, most elevated Self. The one we strive to attain through every step of …

OM BHAVAM NAMAH BHAVAM nature, existence, ecstasy, intimate affection and love, devotional service NAMAH “I bow down to” …”I offer my respect” I am absolute existence I am a field of all possibilities Within each one of us lies energy as free as nature itself. A place that knows no pain, no disease, the abode …

AHIMSA SATYA ASTEYA The corner stone or the very first step on the Yoga path is called Yama. Yoga counts 5 Yamas total, which are different forms of self control. The first is Ahimsa and is about avoiding harm to anyone, Satya follows suits and means being truthful. Asteya is about never stealing from another. …