Indeed most biblical scholarship is in agreement that Judeo-Greco-Roman thought in the 1st century was opposite of the Western world's " individual first " mantra – it was very collectivist or communitarian in nature.

Voltaire concludes with Candide, if not rejecting optimism outright, advocating an enigmatic precept, " we must cultivate our garden ", in lieu of the Leibnizian mantra of Pangloss, " all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds ".

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Traditionally, the mantra Om Mani Padme Hum is written in Sanskrit on the outside of the wheel.

As the practitioner turns the wheel, it is best to focus the mind and repeat the Om Mani Padme Hum mantra.

The cylinder itself is weighted down with a cord or chain allowing it to be spun by a slight rotation of the wrist along with the mantra it contains.

In the 1970s, the happy face ( and the accompanying " have a nice day " mantra ) is also said to have become a zombifying hollow sentiment, emblematic of Nixon-era America and the passing from the optimism of the Summer of Love into the more cynical decade that followed.

Even the Gayatri mantra, which is regarded as one of the most sacred of the Vedic hymns is dedicated to Savitr, one of the principal Ādityas.

One is recommended not to focus on any image or recite any mantra, not to mix other activities like meditation or use of drugs, but simply to intend to surrender to the Divine or the will of God.

As their contracts with the studio included an open option that had to be renewed every year, Cohn would tell the boys that the short subjects were in decline, which was not a complete fabrication ( Cohn's yearly mantra was " the market for comedy shorts is dying out, fellas.

One of Humphrey's speeches contained the lines " It was once said that the moral test of Government is how that Government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children ; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly ; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped ," which is sometimes described as the " liberals ' mantra.

The TM technique involves the use of a sound or mantra and is practiced for 15 – 20 minutes twice per day.

The Transcendental Meditation technique is a specific form of mantra meditation often referred to as Transcendental Meditation or simply, TM.

The meditation practice involves the use of a sound or mantra and is practiced for 15 – 20 minutes twice per day, while sitting comfortably with closed eyes.

Garudi Vidya is the mantra against snake poison to remove all kinds of evil.

Peace Love Unity Respect, commonly shortened with PLUR, is a credo or mantra of the rave or Electronic Dance Music culture.

According to the literature, the mantra is an easy path without the difficulties innate to the Paramitanaya.

Worship is evident in Buddhism in such forms as: guru yoga, mandala, thanka, yantra yoga, the discipline of the fighting monks of Shaolin, panchamrita, mantra recitation, tea ceremony, ganacakra, amongst others.

What all the versions agree is that Kabir tricked Ramananda into giving him a mantra for meditation, which forced him to accept Kabir as his disciple.

A common mantra used in this form is that of " Sat Nam "-meaning " I am truth ".

Savitr disappeared as an independent deity from the Hindu pantheon after the end of the Vedic period, but in modern Hinduism, his name occurs in the well-known Gayatri mantra ( taken from book three of the Rigveda ), which is also known as Savitri because of this.

The latter verse is the celebrated Savitri, now termed as the Gayatri mantra, with which Savitr was in later times invoked at the beginning of Vedic study.

The name forms part of a famous mantra also known as a " twelve syllable mantra ", which believed to be the earliest mantra from pre-reformation times, pre-dating sectarian divisions in Vaishnavism-( IAST ), it is translated as " Om, reverence to the Lord Vasudeva ".

Indeed, an important mantra that social scientists cite, but often forget, is that " correlation does not imply causation.

One important category of sūtras is those which are esoteric in nature, often devoted to a particular mantra or dhāraṇī.

The most important of the individual tattoos in Punk's character, whether through association, symbol, or mantra, are:

Digambaras believe that only the first five lines are formally part of the Namokar Mantra ( the main Jain prayer ), whereas Svetambaras believe all nine form the mantra.

One of her names, Hara ( mentioned in Narada-pancaratra 5. 5. 59 ), in vocative Hare, forms a part of the Hare Krishna ' Maha-Mantra ', one of the most popular Vedic mantras, especially among certain sects of Gaudiya Vaishnavas ( some other sects among Gaudiya Vaishnavas explain that the word " Hare " in the mantra is the vocative form of " Hari ", which is also a name of God ).

In the context of the Vedas, the term mantra refers to the entire portion which contains the texts called Rig, Yajur or Sama, that is, the metrical part as opposed to the prose Brahmana commentary.

According to Sally Waller, part of the sans-culottes mantra was " permanent anticipation of betrayal and treachery ".

Start uttering the other line of the mantra, ' Prajāpataye svāhā ' ( oblation unto Prajapati, Lord of all Created beings ), while offering the other part of the rice grains to the fire after saying and go on to complete the mantra, ' Prajāpataye idam, na mama ' (' this belongs to Prajapati, not me ').

Exactly at sunset time, accompanied by the chanting of sunset Agnihotra mantras-' Agnaye svāhā ' ( Oblation to Agni, Fire ) offer the first part after saying ' Svaha ' and complete the mantra by saying ' Agnaye idam, na mama ' (' this unto Agni, not me ').

Similarly, uttering the second line of the mantra offer other part of the rice grains to the fire after saying ' Prājapataye svāhā ' and complete the mantra uttering ' Prajāpataye idam, na mama '.

The language of the Brahmanas is a separate stage of Vedic Sanskrit, younger than the text of the samhitas ( the mantra text of the Vedas proper ) but for the most part older than the text of the Sutras.

The first known description of the mantra appears in the Karandavyuha Sutra ( Chinese: 佛說大乘莊嚴寶王經 ( Taisho Tripitaka 1050 ); English: Buddha speaks Mahayana Sublime Treasure King Sutra ), which is part of certain Mahayana canons such as the Tibetan.

The middle part of the mantra,, is often interpreted as " jewel in the lotus ," Sanskrit " jewel, gem, cintamani " and the locative of " lotus ", but according to Donald Lopez it is much more likely that is in fact a vocative, not a locative, addressing a bodhisattva called, " Jewel-Lotus "- an alternate epithet of the bodhisattva Avalokitesvara.

The most sacred part of the Hindu wedding ceremony involves circumambulating the sacred fire in seven steps to a Vedic mantra where the groom addresses his wife.

In the UK, clinical audit is part of the clinical governance mantra expected of all organisations and workers within the NHS.

Jack returns to the beach camp and gives a speech on how they are going to live on the island and tells them about the caves ; one part of his speech —" live together, die alone "— becomes a mantra of him and the survivors.

When traveling to Gaya to perform the shraddha ceremony for his departed father Chaitanya met his guru, the ascetic Ishvara Puri, from whom he received initiation with the Gopala Krishna mantra.

The youngster is taught during the ceremony the secret of life through Brahmopadesam ( revealing the nature of Brahman, the Ultimate Reality ) or the Gayatri mantra.

It was beneath this tree, on October 9, 1966, that A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, founder of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, held the first recorded outdoor chanting session of the Hare Krishna mantra outside of the Indian subcontinent ; participants in the ceremony included Beat poet Allen Ginsberg.

Satsvarupa das Goswami During ISKCON diksa ceremony in 1979. Diksa ( Sanskrit: द ी क ् ष ा in Devanagari,, Tamil: த ீ ட ் ச ை) also spelled deeksha or deeksa in common usage, translated as a " preparation or consecration for a religious ceremony ", is giving of a mantra or an initiation by the guru in Indian religions such as Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism.

Bhogal also noted that " They also believe in a different Khalsa initiation ceremony, wherein the five beloved ones, or five Gursikhs place their right hand on the neophyte's head and meditatively repeat the mantra ' Vahiguru ', revolving around the innitiate for five or so minutes.