ASHTANGA YOGA MANTRAM

OM

VANDE GURUNAM CARANARAVINDE

SANDARSITA SVATMA SUKHAVA BODHE

NIH SREYASE JANGALIKAYAMANE

SAMSARA HALAHALA MOHASANTYAI

ABAHU PURUSAKARAM

SANKHACAKRASI DHARINAM

SAHASRA SIRASAM SVETAM

PRANAMAMI PATAÑJALIM

OM

I pray to the Lotus feet of the supreme Guru who teaches the

good knowledge, showing the way to knowing the selfawakening

great happines; who is the doctor of the jungle, able to remove

the poison of the ignorance of conditioned existence.

To patañjali, an incarnation of adisesa, white in color with 1000

radiant heads (in his form as the divine serpent, Ananta), human in

form below the shoulders holding a sword (discrimination), a wheel of

fire (discus of ligth, representing infinite time),

and a conch (divine sound) - To him,

I prostrate .