Om Shakti Om Shakti Om Shakti Om

Brahma Shakti Vishnu Shakti Shiva Shakti Om [

Om Shakti ... ] Ichcha Shakti Kriya Shakti
Gnana Shakti Om [ Om Shakti ... ] Adi Shakti
Para Shakti Maha Shakti Om [ Om Shakti ... ]
Shirdi Shakti Sai Shakti Sathya Shakti Om

adi: beginning, commencement, first in time;

(var) aadi
akarta: non-action – opposite of karta, to do

brahma: one of the trinity who is the creator, it

also refers to the supreme lord -
brahman; (var) brahmam
gnana: wisdom; (var) gyaan, gnaan, gnan,
gnanam
ichcha: wish, thought

karo: do; make it happen; (var) kiya - did;

karomi, karey - let us do
kriya: action, movement
maha: great

om: primordial sound of

creation; (var) aum, omkar,
omkara, omkaram
Bhagawan advices starting the day with
Omkaram chanting – OM (x 21). He
further enunciates: The Pranava
(primeval sound OM) recital is one form
of such spiritual effort. It is laid down at
Prashaanthi Nilayam that the early dawn
recital of Om should be done twenty one
times. This number is not arbitrarily
fixed; it has a significance of its own.
• We have the five karmendhriyas
(senses of action) and the five
jnaanendhriyas (senses of
perception);
• we have also praanas (the five
vital energies or airs) to
sustain us.
• Then we have the five koshas
(sheaths), enclosing the Divine
Spark that is the Reality. These
total up to twenty.
• Hence the recitation of Om twenty
one times purifies and clarifies all
these twenty components and makes
man the twenty- first entity, ready for
the final merger with Reality.

The Jeevathathwam (life-principle)

merges with Parathathwam (the Supreme
Reality). The jeevathathwam may be
 Finally, you end the Pranava recital with
the recital of ‘shaanthi’ three times. That
completes the process of clarification and
purification.
The first call for shaanthi (peace chant)
is for the purity of the aadhibhouthik
(body) part of the Self. The second call is
for the purity of the aadhidhaivik (the
mind). The third is for the purification of
the aadhyaathmik (the spirit). This
Pranava recital will tone you up, calm all
agitations in the mind and quicken the
downpour of Grace.

- Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba, Bal Vikas

Gurus Training Camp, 06th June 1978,
Sathya Sai Speaks, Vol 14 (1978 - 80)
para:
different, another, distant,

highest sa + aai = divine

sai:
mother
sathya:
truth, short form of sathyanarayana – the
childhood name of sri sathya sai baba; (var) sathyam

shakthi: power, primordial goddess

shirdi:
birthplace of the first of the sai avatars, shirdi
sai baba; (var) shirdipuri

shiva: lord shiva - one of the trinity who is the

destroyer - the name shiva means
auspiciousness; (var) shiv, shivaya,