The Moola Mantra is remarkable in that it makes no sectarian demands. Whether your devotion flows naturally toward Shiva, toward the Divine Mother, toward the formless absolute, or toward the personal God of love — the Moola Mantra includes all of these and bows to all of them. It is a prayer that holds the whole.
The Full Mantra
Om Sat Chit Ananda Parabrahma
Purushothama Paramatma
Sri Bhagavati Same Tha
Sri Bhagavate Namaha
Each phrase addresses the divine from a different angle — as the three qualities of ultimate reality (Sat Chit Ananda), as the transcendent absolute (Parabrahma), as the highest personal being (Purushothama), as the universal self within all things (Paramatma), and as the divine feminine in her most auspicious form (Bhagavati).
Sat Chit Ananda
These three Sanskrit words are perhaps the most compact description of ultimate reality in any spiritual tradition. Sat — pure being, pure existence, that which simply is. Chit — pure awareness, pure consciousness, the knowing quality of existence. Ananda — pure bliss, the joy that is not caused by anything but is the inherent nature of awareness when it knows itself.
Together they describe the ground of all experience — what remains when all else is stripped away.
A Mantra for Modern Yoga
The Moola Mantra became widely known in the global yoga community through the work of Sri Swami Premananda and later through musician Deva Premal, whose recording brought it to millions of practitioners worldwide. It has become one of the most beloved chants in modern yoga classes — used as an opening invocation, a closing prayer, or a standalone meditation.
How to Use It
The mantra is most often chanted to its traditional melody, which has a beautiful call-and-response quality. Chanting with others amplifies its effect significantly. In solo practice, hold the intention of devotion — not to any particular form, but to whatever you understand as the highest reality. Let the mantra be a gift, offered freely.
Benefits
The Moola Mantra tends to open the heart. Practitioners who work with it regularly describe a growing capacity for reverence — the ability to recognise the sacred in ordinary experience. This is perhaps its most significant gift: not a dramatic spiritual experience, but a gradual softening of the boundary between the sacred and the everyday.
