Meaning of the Mantra:

Om mani padme hum

14th Dalai Lama

"om mani padme h", written in Tibetan script on a rock outside the Potala Palace in Tibet
"It is very good to recite the mantra Om mani padme hum, but while you are doing it, you
should be thinking on its meaning, for the meaning of the six syllables is great and vast...
The first, Om [...] symbolizes the practitioner's impure body, speech, and mind; it also
symbolizes the pure exalted body, speech, and mind of a Buddha[...]"
"The path is indicated by the next four syllables. Mani, meaning jewel, symbolizes the
factors of method: (the) altruistic intention to become enlightened, compassion, and
love.[...]"
"The two syllables, padme, meaning lotus, symbolize wisdom[...]"
"Purity must be achieved by an indivisible unity of method and wisdom, symbolized by
the final syllable hum, which indicates indivisibility[...]"

"Thus the six syllables, om mani padme hum, mean

that in dependence on the practice of a path which is
an indivisible union of method and wisdom, you can
transform your impure body, speech, and mind into
the pure exalted body, speech, and mind of a
Buddha[...]"
Thoughts to be had whilst chanting transcribed in simplification keeping essence:

Being and non-beings proliferate loving compassion and indivisible intelligent equanimity; Om
Mani Padme Hum.

That is the natural ubiquitous pervasive force of consciousness. These frequencies are in the
Sanskrit tongue, act as a harmonic sound resonance against blocking energy, or sleeping energy.
Plants reflect this action as well because of the phonetic strength of vibration that is stimulated
by natural pronunciation.
O mai padme h[1] (Sanskrit: , IPA:
m ip dme
]) is the six-syllabled
Sanskrit mantra particularly associated with the four-armed Shadakshari form of Avalokiteshvara
(Tibetan Chenrezig, Chinese Guanyin), the bodhisattva of compassion. Mani means "jewel" or
"bead" and Padma means "the lotus flower", the Buddhist Sacred Flower.
It is commonly carved onto rocks or written on paper which is inserted into prayer wheels, said
to increase the mantra's effects.

Meaning
Mantras may be interpreted by practitioners in many ways, or even as mere sequences of sound
whose effects lie beyond strict meaning.
The middle part of the mantra, maipadme, is often interpreted as "jewel in the lotus," Sanskrit
ma "jewel, gem, cintamani" and the locative of padma "lotus", but according to Donald Lopez
it is much more likely that maipadme is in fact a vocative, not a locative, addressing a
bodhisattva called maipadma, "Jewel-Lotus"- an alternate epithet of the bodhisattva
Avalokitesvara.[4] It is preceded by the o syllable and followed by the h syllable, both
interjections without linguistic meaning.
Lopez also notes that the majority of Tibetan Buddhist texts have regarded the translation of the
mantra as secondary, focusing instead on the correspondence of the six syllables of the mantra to
various other groupings of six in the Buddhist tradition.[5] For example, in the Chenrezig
Sadhana, Tsangsar Tulku Rinpoche expands upon the mantra's meaning, taking its six syllables
to represent the purification of the six realms of existence:[6]
Syllable

Six
Pramits

Purifies

Samsaric Colours
realm

Symbol of
the Deity

(Wish them) To
be born in

Om

Generosity

Pride / Ego

Devas

White

Wisdom

Perfect Realm
of Potala

Ma

Ethics

Jealousy / Lust Asuras

for entertainment

Green

Compassion

Perfect Realm
of Potala

Ni

Patience

Passion / desire

Humans

Yellow Body,
Dewachen
speech, mind
quality and
activity

Pad

Diligence

Ignorance /
prejudice

Animals

Blue

Equanimity

the presence of
Protector
(Chenrezig)

Me

Renunciation Poverty /
possessiveness

Pretas
(hungry
ghosts)

Red

Bliss

Perfect Realm
of Potala

Wisdom

Naraka

Black

Quality of
Compassion

the presence of
the Lotus
Throne (of
Chenrezig)

Hum

Aggression /
hatred

Audio : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q41RDC4iqvc

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Om mani padme hum

The mantra in Tibetan with the six syllables coloured

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