Some sacred names or phrases used for recitation:
OM SRI RAM JAI RAM JAI JAI RAM: God who at once is Truth and Power, Impersonal and Personal, Victory to thee, Victory, Victory to Thee.
OM NAMO SHIVAYA: Praise to God in the name of Shiva, who is the Lord of the Dance.
HARI KRISHNA: Praise to the God of Love and Divine Ecstacy.
EK ONG KAR SAT(TE) NAM SIRI WAR(E) GURU: There is but one God, Truth is His name, great is His indescribable wisdom.
AHURA MAZDA: Indestructible Supreme God, or Lord of Wisdom.
NEMBUTSU: Calling on Buddha.
LA ILLAHA EL IL ALLAH HU or LA ILLAHA ILLA 'LLAHU: There is nothing that exists except that which exists.
ALLAH HU: God alone exists.
ISHQ ALLAH MAHBUD LILLAH: God is love, lover, and beloved.
NAMU AMIDA BUTSU: Hail to Thee, Amida Buddha.
OM MANE PADME HUM: Hail to the jewel in the lotus.
SHEMA YISROEL YAHUVA ELOHAINU YAHUVA ECHOD: Listen oh co-worker, the Lord our God, the Lord, is One.
ABOON D'BASHMAYA, NITKADDASH SHM(U)OCH: Our Father who art in Heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
The "translations" are obviously limited. They give a starting
point, but the process is one of attunement and eventually becoming that which the phrase represents.
| "Live thou, uncontaminated in the world, just like a lotus flower with its head above the muddy pool, or like a sea-fowl that springs into the air with wings unaffected by the water. O Nanak, communion of the soul with the Word is the only means whereby one can safely cross over the endless ocean of matter - attune ye to it." - Guru Nanak
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| "Blessed is the person who utterly surrenders his soul for the name of YAHUVA to dwell therein and to establish therein its throne of glory. - The Zohar
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| "The Divine Will is revealed unto the man by communion with the Holy Naam - the Divine Word."- Kirpal Singh
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| "There are various paths prescribed by various Yogis and Saints of different paths of the world. But Ramdas found that the easiest is the path of devotion. ... Ramdas had no other discipline when he was walking on the path of God-Realization. He found the name of God most helpful. Many people ask what the name of God can do. But those who know the power of the Name can tell you what wonderful potency is in the Name. Ramdas never found any other method so easy as that. To repeat God's name is to remember Him, and as you remember Him, the divine hidden within you manifests and fills you through and through." Swami Ramdas
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