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
Buddhist
Vajrasattva Mantra
The great purification practice of Vajrayana Buddhism.
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Hindu · VedicBeginner
Gayatri Mantra
The mother of the Vedas — a prayer for the illumination of the intellect.
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Hindu · Vedic
Maha Mrityunjaya Mantra
The great death-conquering mantra — a prayer for healing, protection, and liberation.
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All mantras for cleansing & purification
Hindu · VedicBeginner
Asato Ma Sad Gamaya
Lead me from the unreal to the real, from darkness to light, from death to immortality.
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Buddhist
Gate Gate Paragate Parasamgate Bodhi Svaha
The mantra that closes the Heart Sutra — gone, gone, gone beyond to awakening.
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Jewish
Ana Bekoach
A mystical kabbalistic prayer of seven verses, invoking divine power to untangle the knots of the soul and restore harmony.
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