Un mantra (devanagari: मन्त्रम्)^[1] esse le recitation de verbos sacrate, sonos divin, de un syllaba, alicun phonemas, vel de un gruppo de parolas, vel in sanscrito, vel in le altere linguas que on crede possedente alicun poteres religiose, magic, vel spiritual.^[2][3][4] Le mantras le plus vertere advenite ad adhuc hodie esseva scripte in India in le sermo sanscrite vedic.^[3]

Le exemplo le plus simplice esse forsan le parola ॐ (Aum, Om) que es usata como un mantra, e credite le prime sono a se esser originate super le terra. Quandocumque illo es recitate, le sono ‘om’ produce vibrationes in le corpore que adjuva a calmar et le corpore, et le mente. In alicun formas plus sophisticate, le mantras pote etiam esser phrases cum un nuance spiritual, sicut le site de cognoscentia, realitate, lumine, immortalitate, pace, veritate e ation.^[2][5] Alicun mantras que non habe senso litteral habe senso spiritual, nam illos duce a se elevar in termine de spirito.^[3]

L’uso, structura, function, importantia e typo de mantra va variar secundo le scholas e le philosophias intra le Hinduismo, Buddhismo, Jainismo e Sikhismo.^[4][6]

Le mantras habe un rolo central in le tantras.^[3][7] In iste traditiones, le mantras es considerate ut un recitation sacrate e un ritual profundemente personal, sovente de character initiatic – quamquam in altere scholas le initiation in le mantra non sia compulsori.^[8][5]

In addition, le vocabulo ‘mantra’ es etiam usate pro se referer ad alique que es repetite sovente, e que dunque poterea comenciar a enoiar le gente exactemente nam le eccessive repetetion.

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1. ↑ "mantra" Archived 18 decembre 2014 at the Wayback Machine. Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.
2. ↑ ^{2,0 2,1} Jan Gonda (1963). The Indian Mantra 16. Oriens, 244–297. 
3. ↑ ^{3,0 3,1 3,2 3,3} Frits Staal (1996). Rituals and Mantras, Rules without meaning. Motilal Banarsidass. ISBN 978-8-12081-412-7. 
4. ↑ ^{4,0 4,1} Feuerstein, Georg (2003), The Deeper Dimension of Yoga. Shambala Publications, Boston, MA
5. ↑ ^{5,0 5,1} Alper, Harvey (1991). Understanding mantras. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass. ISBN 978-81-208-0746-4. OCLC 29867449. 
6. ↑ Nesbitt, Eleanor M. (2005), Sikhism: a very short introduction, Oxford University Press, (ISBN 978-0-19-280601-7)
7. ↑ Goudriaan, Teun (1981). Hindu tantric and Śākta literature. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, Chapter VIII. ISBN 978-3-447-02091-6. OCLC 7743718. 
8. ↑ Boyce, M. (2001), Zoroastrians: their religious beliefs and practices, Psychology Press