Shiva Mantra
As part of my yoga teacher training I am going to do a 40-day sadhana, starting a new daily personal spiritual practice. In preparation for this, I’m looking for some good sanskrit mantras and chants. Here’s one now!
OM NA MA SHI VA YA
Translation: Apparently it has no direct translation. But the cool thing about it is that the sounds relate directly to the elements that govern the first six chakras (earth, water, fire, air, ether). And Shiva is a pretty cool hindu deity.
Also, it’s the 5 koshas!
Na is physical body (annamayakosha), Ma is energy body (pranamayakosha), Shi is mind body (manomayakosha), Va is the wisdom body (vijnanamayakosha), Ya is the bliss body (anandamayakosha), and om is the causal body - the center of consciousness.
