Anusara Yoga Invocation:
Om Namah Shivaya Gurave
Saccidananda Murtaye
Nisprapancaya Shantaya
Niralambaya Tejase
Translation:
I offer myself to the Light, who is the True Teacher
within and without (the teacher of all teachers),
Who assumes the forms of
Reality, Consciousness and Bliss,
Who is never absent and is full of peace,
Independent in its existence,
It is the vital essence of illumination.
ASHTANGA YOGA INVOCATION
Vande gurunam caranaravinde
Sandarsita svatmasukhava bodhe
Nihsreyase jangalikayamane
Samsara halahala mohasantyai
Abahu purusakaram
Sankhacakrasi dharinam
Sahasra sirasam svetam
Pranamami patanjalim
om
I prostrate before the sage Patanjali who has thousands of radiant, white heads (as the divine serpent, Ananta) and who has, as far as his arms, assumed the form of a man holding a conch shell (divine sound), a wheel (discus of light or infinite time) and a sword (discrimination).
PARA YOGA INVOCATION
Ganesha graha nakshatra
Yogini rashi rupinim
Devim mantra mayim naumi
Matrika pitha rupinim
Translation:
I pray to the Divine Mother, who identical to Ganesha, is the ruler of the planets, the constellations,
and the ways of karma;
I pray to the knowledge, Shakti, of that most merciful aspect of the Divine that guides me in
perfection in yoga and on the path of destiny;
I pray to Her who is identical to Mantra;
I pay homage to Her (in Her most primordial form), who is the locus and presiding force of speech
and all sound, She who is forever kind.
SURYA GAYATRI MANTRA
OM BHUR BHUVAH SWAHA TAT SAVITUR VARENYAM BHARGO DEVASYA DHI MAHI DHIYO YO NAH PRACHODAYAT
“OM I meditate on the radiant and most venerable light of the divine which issues forth the triple world, earth, ether, and cosmos. May the divine light illuminate and guide my intelligence.”
Shantipat
Om saha navavatu
Saha nau bhunaktu
Saha viryam karavavahai
Tejasvi navadhitam astu
Ma vidvishavahi
Om shanti, shanti, shanti
May we be protected together.
May we be nourished together.
May we work together with great vigour.
May our study be enlightening.
May there be no hatred between us.
Om peace, peace, peace.
CLOSING MANTRA:
Asato maa sad gamaya
Tamaso maa jyotir gamaya
Mrityur maa amritam gamaya
Saarvesham svasti bhavatu
Saarvesham shantir bhavatu
Saarvesham purnam bhavatu
Saarvesham maangalam bhavatu
Lokah Samastah Sukhino Bhaavantu
Shanti Shanti Shanti
From the real to the unreal
From darkness lead me to light
From death lead me to immortality
May all beings dwell in happiness
May all beings dwell in peace
May all beings attain oneness
May all beings attain auspiciousness
May all happiness be unto the whole world