What is Om mani padme hum:
Om mani padme hum (ॐ मणि पद्मे हूँ), words that in Sanskrit translate “oh, the jewel of the lotus!”, and whose pronunciation in Spanish would be “om mani peme jum”, is Chenrezig’s mantra, Buddhist deity of Compassion. It is considered by Tibetan monks one of the essential mantras of Buddhism, since in it all the teachings of Buddhism are condensed. Buddhaand, for this reason, it is also one of the best-known mantras in the world.
The om mani padme hum mantra It is made up of six syllables, each of which has a projection in the light and another in the dark. The invocation of these transmutation energies allows some to purify the others and the practitioner can achieve equanimity and access the wisdom of emptiness, on the path to enlightenment.
Understood within the principles of buddhist philosophy, each syllable is projected at different levels. On the one hand, it prevents reincarnations within the six realms of cyclic existence: world of the devas, the asuras, the humans, the animals, the hungry spirits or pretas, and the hells or Naraka; while, on the other, each syllable purifies the body, speech and mind, and refers to each of the aspects that one wishes to transmute: pride and ego, envy and lust, passion and desire, stupidity and prejudice, poverty and the desire for possession, aggressiveness and hate. Therefore, each syllable refers to the six pāramitās or transcendental virtues: generosity, ethics, patience, diligence, concentration and wisdom.
Each syllable, furthermore, is in itself a mantra that evokes the body, speech, mind, virtues and actions of the Buddhas, to finally link with the six essential wisdoms: that of equanimity, activity, wisdom. immanent, the wisdom of dharma, that of discrimination, and mirror-like wisdom.