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Gayatri and Asatoma Mantras Explained

The document discusses the meaning of several Buddhist mantras and prayers. It explains that the Gayatri Mantra invokes the sun god Savitr to inspire enlightenment. The Asatoma Ma Sadgamaya Mantra guides one from ignorance to knowledge and from mortality to immortality. Om Mani Padme Hum means that through meditation one can transform their impure body and mind into the pure body and mind of a Buddha by realizing their inherent Buddha nature.

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Gayatri and Asatoma Mantras Explained

The document discusses the meaning of several Buddhist mantras and prayers. It explains that the Gayatri Mantra invokes the sun god Savitr to inspire enlightenment. The Asatoma Ma Sadgamaya Mantra guides one from ignorance to knowledge and from mortality to immortality. Om Mani Padme Hum means that through meditation one can transform their impure body and mind into the pure body and mind of a Buddha by realizing their inherent Buddha nature.

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Gayatri Mantra

Ohm bhur bhuvah swaha


Tat savitur varenyam
Bhargo devasya dhymahi
Dhiyo yo nah prachodayat

Asatoma Ma Sadgamaya Mantra


asato ma sadgamaya
tamaso ma jyotirgamaya
mrtyorma amrtam gamaya
OHM NAMOH SHIVAYA

On the meaning of: OM MANI PADME HUM


"The jewel is in the lotus or praise to the jewel in the lotus"

(by His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso The Fourteenth Dalai Lama of Tibet )

Thus the six syllables, OM MANI PADME HUM, mean that in dependence
on the practice which is in indivisible union of method and wisdom,
you can transform your impure body, speech and mind into the pure
body, speech, and mind of a Buddha. It is said that you should not
seek for Buddhahood outside of yourself; the substances for the
achievement of Buddhahood are within. As Maitreya says in his SUBLIME
CONTINUUM OF GREAT VEHICLE (UTTARA TANTRA) all beings naturally have
the Buddha nature in their own continuum. We have within us the seed
of purity, the essence of a One Gone Thus (TATHAGATAGARBHA), that is
to be transformed and full developed into Buddhahood.

(Taken from a lecture given by His Holiness The Dalai Lama of Tibet at the
Kalmuck Mongolian Buddhist Center, New [Link] by Ngawang Tashi
(Tsawa), Drepung Loseling, MUNGOD, INDIA )

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