Learn A Mantra: Pray For The World

Life is precious, and it is precious to be in a relationship with other humans. There is a beautiful mantra that we pray that goes, Sarvesham Svasthir Bhavatu.

It's a beautiful mantra to pray for the world because many mantras, Vedic mantras in particular, are praying for the well-being of all. Sarvesham means everybody, all creatures, all beings. Sarvesham Svasthir Bhavatu.

Svasthi is this beautiful word that connotes blessing on the one hand and well-being on the other. May there be a sense of well-being that prevails in our world with everybody. Sarvesham Svasthir Bhavatu.

Sarvesham Shantir Bhavatu. That there be peace, that there is this prevalence of peace in human consciousness. Sarvesham Purnam Bhavatu.

Again, the word Purnam, in the middle of these other words that are recurrent, Sarvesham and Bhavatu, means fullness, and we can interpret it two ways. On the one hand, we can say that this is a prayer asking everybody to be filled with the fullness of God's presence, and we know it is challenging when people are going through difficult times and extenuating circumstances. On the other hand, it could mean that the fullness of everybody involved knows the divine.

Of course, this is wishful thinking but that's what prayer is about. It's wishful thinking in the hope that what we genuinely yearn for in our hearts extends on this massive global scale. And, of course, when we think of prayers like this, we don't exclude anybody.

So obviously, we include everybody. That means we include the Russians. We include so-called people who are against us.

Everybody needs to be included in our prayer or it's not prayer. Sarvesham Mangalam Bhavatu, Mangalam, prosperity. Again, a word that, you know, divides our world into the haves and haves not, the ones who are affluent and those who are not, the rich and the poor.

But that's not a world we want to live in. Ultimately, we do want to see a world in which everybody is prosperous. And so, even though that's not the reality, that could be our prayer, and that's what this is.

A mantra is a prayer, and Vedic mantras, in particular, are so beautiful because they are meant to involve everybody. They are to uplift the community. They are intended to raise consciousness.

And so, I invite you to learn this prayer, do this prayer. If you already know it, then you have a level of meaning that's more profound or some added padding to what you know already. Sarvesham Swastir Bhavatu.

Sarvesham Shantir Bhavatu. Sarvesham Purnam Bhavatu. Sarvesham Mangalam Bhavatu.

Om Shanti. Om Shanti.

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