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Om Namah Shivaya

ॐ नमः शिवाय

ॐ नमः शिवाय
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The Pañcākṣara — five syllables

ॐ नमः शिवाय

oṃ namaḥ śivāya

Salutation to Śiva, the Auspicious. Na-maḥ-śi-vā-ya: five syllables that tradition reads as the five elements, and the whole of creation bowing to its source.

The words first appear in the Śrī Rudram of the Yajurveda. Read the verse, its meaning and its source →

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