Mantra

Mantra Mantra Sacred utterance or sound used in meditation, often repeated "Mantr" and "Om Shanti" redirect here. For the 2010 film, see Om Shanti (film). For other uses, see Mantra (disambiguation). A mantra (/ˈmæntrə, ˈmʌn-/ MAN-trə, MUN-;[1] Pali: mantra) or mantram (Devanagari: मन्त्रम्)[2] is a sacred utterance, a numinous sound, a syllable, word or phonemes, or group of words (most often in an Indo-Iranian language like Sanskrit or Avestan) believed by practitioners to have religious, magical or spiritual powers.[3][4] Some mantras have a syntactic structure and a literal meaning, while others do not.[3][5] Clockwise from upper left: Om (an ancient Vedic mantra used in Hinduism and Buddhism); the Ṇamōkāra mantra (the most important mantra in Jainism); the Vajrayana Buddhist E-VAM…

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