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Meaning & Translation
Sanskrit
ॐ आनन्दमयि चैतन्यमयि सत्यमयि परमे
Transliteration
Om Anandamayi Chaitanyamayi Satyamayi Parame
Deity / Quality Invoked
The Divine Mother
Pronunciation
om AH-nan-dah-MAH-yee chai-TAHN-yah-MAH-yee saht-YAH-mah-yee PAH-rah-may
Full Translation
This mantra addresses the Divine Mother directly in four of her essential aspects: She who is made of bliss (Anandamayi), She who is made of consciousness (Chaitanyamayi), She who is made of truth (Satyamayi), and She who is Supreme (Parame). Rather than naming a particular goddess form, it greets the Mother as the very substance of joy, awareness, and reality itself — a recognition that everything the chanter experiences is her.
Spiritual Significance
Chanting this mantra is a practice of remembering that bliss, consciousness, and truth are not qualities to be acquired but the very nature of the Divine Mother — and, by extension, of the chanter's own deepest self. In the Sri Aurobindo lineage it is treasured as a complete meditation: each word draws the mind into a subtler layer of the Mother's presence.
Cultural Context & History
The mantra comes from the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry, where it is associated with Sri Aurobindo and The Mother (Mirra Alfassa), who rendered it "She, the Delight; She, the Consciousness; She, the Truth; She, the Supreme." It has traveled widely into the Western Kirtan world, where singers set its four flowing names to melodic call-and-response.