Om Shanti Shanti Shanti is the *Shanti Mantra* — *shanti* meaning peace, calm, tranquillity. The triple repetition is not for emphasis; each of the three is for a different layer. In the traditional reading: the first *shanti* is for the *adhibhautika* (peace from suffering caused by external forces — other people, weather, events); the second is for the *adhidaivika* (peace from suffering caused by forces beyond direct human control — illness, fate, the gods); the third is for the *adhyatmika* (peace from suffering caused by one's own mind — thoughts, attachments, identifications). The mantra appears as the closing of the major Upanishads and is spoken at the end of yogic, vedantic, and meditation practice — and at funerals, where the three peaces become the prayer for the departing being to be at peace in body, in soul, and in mind.
🕊️Om Shanti Shanti Shanti
The triple peace prayer. Peace in three layers, three repetitions, three directions. The mantra spoken at every ending.
Peace, peace, peace. (Peace in body, peace in mind, peace in spirit.)
Vedic — closing mantra of countless Upanishads and yogic practices
🎧what it does
the work this mantra carries
Seals practice. The chant marks a transition: the practice was happening, and now it is integrating. Every nervous-system signal in the chant — the long exhale, the rhythmic repetition, the slight melody — drops the practitioner from active-engagement back into rest-and-settle. The triple repetition gives the body, mind, and spirit each their own seal.
📿how to chant
concrete practice — traditional + modern
Slow, ceremonial. Long exhale on each *Shanti*. The three are not identical — chant the first *Shanti* loudest (for the world), the second medium (for the larger forces), the third softest (for the inner field, and for the inward turn). Eyes closed for the third. Hands at heart-centre. Bow at the end. Three rounds is enough; one round closes most practices.
🎁the gift
what this mantra teaches
*Layered peace.* The mantra recognises that peace is not one thing but three — outer, larger, inner — and it offers a seal for each.
🌑the shadow
where the mantra becomes a costume
Premature closing. Chanting the peace mantra before the work has actually been done. Saying *shanti shanti shanti* at the end of a practice the practitioner sleepwalked through is not peace; it is performance.
💞in love & in work
The mantra spoken at the end of difficult conversations — when both partners have done the work, and the closing is asking for peace in body (the nervous system settling), peace in field (the relationship settling), and peace in heart (the inner field of each partner settling).
The end of any meaningful chapter. Closing a project, leaving a job, finishing a long piece of writing. The mantra of *the work is complete; let it rest now*.
🪶pair with
🔮questions to sit with
before / during / after chanting
- Of the three peaces — outer, larger, inner — which is the one my life is most lacking right now?
- What chapter is asking to be sealed with this mantra so that the next chapter has room to begin?
- Which *shanti* have I been speaking out loud while still carrying the opposite inside?
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