OM WAGI SHORI MUM - OM AH RA PA TSA NA DHIH (Manjushri’s mantras)

OM WAGI SHORI MUM OM! Lord of Speech, MUM! or Hail to the Lord of Speech! MUM! Mantra to Manjushri, the Bodhisattva of Wisdom. Manjushri bestows intelligence, wisdom, mastery of the Teaching and the power of exposition, eloquence and memory. OM AH RA PA TSA NA DHIH Manjushri’s mantra for developing wisdom. A mantra commonly associated with Mañjuśrī is the following: oṃ arapacana dhīḥ The Arapacana is a syllabary consisting of forty-two letters, and is named after the first five letters: a, ra, pa, ca, na.[10] This syllabary was most widely used for the Gāndhārī language with the Kharoṣṭhī script but also appears in some Sanskrit texts. The syllabary features in Mahāyāna texts such as the longer Prajñāpāramitā texts, the Gaṇḍavyūha Sūtra, the Lalitavistara Sūtra, the Avataṃsaka Sūtra, the Dharmaguptaka Vinaya, and the Mūlasarvāstivāda Vinaya.[10] In some of these texts, the Arapacana syllabary serves as a mnemonic for important Mahāyāna concepts.[10] Due to its association with him, Arapacana may even serve as an alternate name for Mañjuśrī.[9] The Sutra on Perfect Wisdom (Conze 1975) defines the significance of each syllable thus:[citation needed] A is a door to the insight that all dharmas are unproduced from the very beginning (ādya-anutpannatvād). RA is a door to the insight that all dharmas are without dirt (rajas). PA is a door to the insight that all dharmas have been expounded in the ultimate sense (paramārtha). CA is a door to the insight that the decrease...