The Perfect Prayer

There are a few prayers that open Vedas and Upanishads. They are known as the Vedic prayers and they are the prayers that I was taught as a child. I did a post a while back about the Gayatri Mantra, one of the most popular Vedic prayers. Today I want to share with you the “perfect” prayer…

And in the Sanskrit:

ॐ पूर्णमदः पूर्णमिदं पूर्णात्पुर्णमुदच्यते
पूर्णश्य पूर्णमादाय पूर्णमेवावशिष्यते ॥
ॐ शान्तिः शान्तिः शान्तिः ॥