Intention
Cleansing & Purification
Cleansing mantras — especially the Vajrasattva mantra in Buddhist traditions and the Gayatri Mantra in the Vedic tradition — are chanted to purify obscurations of body, speech, and mind.
Recommended mantras
Vajrasattva Mantra
The great purification practice of Vajrayana Buddhism.
Gayatri Mantra
The mother of the Vedas — a prayer for the illumination of the intellect.
Maha Mrityunjaya Mantra
The great death-conquering mantra — a prayer for healing, protection, and liberation.
All mantras for cleansing & purification
Asato Ma Sad Gamaya
Lead me from the unreal to the real, from darkness to light, from death to immortality.
Gate Gate Paragate Parasamgate Bodhi Svaha
The mantra that closes the Heart Sutra — gone, gone, gone beyond to awakening.
Ana Bekoach
A mystical kabbalistic prayer of seven verses, invoking divine power to untangle the knots of the soul and restore harmony.
La ilaha illallah
There is no god but God — the central Sufi zikr of divine unity and the heart of Islamic remembrance.