Opening and Closing chant

Beginning your practice by chanting is a way to honour the past and all who have helped you to arrive here in this very moment.
It is an invitation to pause and step into the present and open to the process and possibility of seeing yourself clearly.

Vande gurunam caranaravinde
Sandarsita svatma sukhava bodhe
Nihsreyase jangalikayamane
Samsara halahala mohashantiyai
Abahu purusakaram
Sankhacakrasi dharinam
Sahasra sirasam svetam
Pranamami Patanjalim
Om

I bow to the two lotus feet of the Gurus, which awaken insight into the happiness of pure Being which are the complete absorbtion into joy, the jungle physician, eliminating the delusion caused by the poison of Samsära (conditioned existence).

I prostrate before the sage Pataïjali who has thousands of radiant, white heads and who has, as far as his arms, assumed a human form, holding a conch shell (divine sound), a wheel (a discus of light or time) and a sword (discrimination).

Svasti praja bhyaha
pari pala yantam
nya yena margena mahim mahishaha
go bramanebhyaha shubamastu nityam
lokah samastah sukhino bhavantu
om shanti shanti shantihi

Svasti praja bhyaha
pari pala yantam
nya yena margena
mahim mahishaha
go bramanebhyaha
shubamastu nityam
lokah samastah sukhino bhavantu
om shanti shanti shantihi