mantra (mantra)

(Language: Sanskrit)

Alternate Spellings: mantram

Short Description: literally, “instrument of thought”

Long Description: literally, “instrument of thought”; a word or phrase of divine origin, often including a Name of God, repeated by those initiated into its proper use as a means of salvation or liberation; see japa.

Sources: The Fullness of God: Frithjof Schuon on Christianity, by Frithjof Schuon, edited by Dr. James S. Cutsinger