One of the most beautiful versions of The Heart Sutra [Prajnaparamita Mantra] - with lyrics

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English translation:

Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara while practicing deeply with
the Insight that Brings Us to the Other Shore, suddenly discovered that all of the five Skandhas (Body/ Matter, Feelings, Perceptions, Mental Formations, and Consciousness) are equally empty,
and with this realisation, he overcame all ill-being.

Listen Sariputra, Body itself is Emptiness, and Emptiness itself is this Body.

This Body is not other than Emptiness, and Emptiness is not other than this Body.

The same is true of Feelings, Perceptions, Mental Formations, and Consciousness.

Listen Sariputra, all phenomena bear the mark of Emptiness; their true nature is the nature of
no Birth no Death,
no Being no Non-being,
no Defilement no Purity,
no Increasing no Decreasing.

That is why in Emptiness,
Body, Feelings, Perceptions, Mental Formations and Consciousness are not separate self entities.

There're no eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, mind;
no sights, sounds, odors, tastes, or touchable states; no visual element, and so forth, until one comes to no mind-cognition element.

There is no ignorance, nor extinction of ignorance,
until we come to: no aging and death, nor extinction of aging and death.

There is no suffering, no origination, no cessation, no path;
there is no wisdom, no attainment (of nirvana) as there is nothing to attain.

Therefore, O Sariputra, by reason of his nonattainment (of nirvana),
the Bodhisattva, having resorted to the Insight that Brings Us to the Other Shore, dwells serenely with perfect mental freedom.

By his non-possession of mental impediments, (the Bodhisattva) without fear, having surpassed all perversions, attains the unattainable (bliss of) nirvana.

All Buddhas in the past, present and future, by practicing the Insight that Brings Us to the Other Shore, are all capable of attaining Authentic and Perfect Enlightenment.

Therefore Sariputra, the Insight that Brings Us to the Other Shore is a Great Mantra, the most illuminating mantra, the highest mantra, a mantra beyond compare, the True Wisdom that has the power to put an end to all kinds of suffering.

Therefore let us proclaim a mantra to praise the Insight that Brings Us to the Other Shore.

Gate, Gate, Paragate, Parasamgate, Bodhi Svaha!

(Literally translated as "Gone, gone, gone beyond, gone altogether beyond to the other shore! O enlightenment! Be it so!")

Shared with love & light. Namaste :)

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