5 Most Powerful Shiv Mantras to Chant on the Last Monday of Sawan
Riya Kumari | Jul 27, 2025, 20:49 IST
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Highlight of the story: Look, I’ve dabbled. In crystals. In breathwork. Even in that terrifying 12-day juice cleanse that nearly ended my social life and bowel function. But sometimes, after all the spirulina smoothies and midnight journaling, you still feel like your soul's WiFi is glitchy. Enter: Sawan’s last Monday. Aka your final chance (for now) to spiritually slide into Lord Shiva’s DMs and maybe, just maybe, sort your cosmic mess.
There are moments when you stop mid-sentence, mid-scroll, mid-life, and feel it: the quiet ache of something missing. You’re doing all the right things, showing up, keeping up, but deep down, there’s this undercurrent of heaviness. Not quite pain. Not quite peace either. Just… stuckness. And then Sawan arrives. That rare month where, for reasons we don’t fully understand but somehow feel, time moves differently. Everything slows. Everything matters. And if you’ve made it to the last Monday of Sawan, it means one thing: You’re standing at a spiritual threshold. This isn’t just ritual. It’s remembrance. A chance to return to yourself, through mantras that aren’t just words, but frequencies. Each of these Shiva mantras isn’t here to impress you. They’re here to empty you, of fear, doubt, ego and make space for something truer to enter.
1. Maha Mrityunjaya Mantra
“Om Tryambakam Yajamahe Sugandhim Pushtivardhanam
Urvarukamiva Bandhanan Mrityor Mukshiya Maamritat”
A prayer to Shiva for liberation, from death, yes, but more urgently, from fear. This mantra is often chanted for health, safety, and protection. But at its core, it’s about letting go of the fear of endings, of relationships, identities, or versions of ourselves we’ve outgrown.
It teaches that what dies was never the essence anyway. That true healing isn’t the absence of pain, but the presence of courage.
2. Rudra Gayatri Mantra
“Om Tatpurushaya Vidmahe Mahadevaya Dhimahi
Tanno Rudrah Prachodayat”
Help me know you, Shiva. Help me reflect you. Help me walk as you. Shiva is not a God who asks for blind belief. He is the questioner, the rebel, the destroyer of illusions. Chanting this mantra is not about worship, it’s about alignment. You’re not asking for favors.
You’re asking to embody clarity, stillness, and truth. To see through things, instead of just looking at them.
3. Panchakshari Mantra
“Om Namah Shivaya”
I bow to Shiva. I surrender to the Self that knows. This is the mantra you whisper when everything feels overwhelming and you don’t have the strength to understand it all. It doesn’t need your logic. It only asks for your presence. With every chant, it softens your grip, on control, on expectations, on the story you’re clinging to.
It doesn’t solve the chaos. It holds you steady inside it.
4. Shiv Dhyan Mantra
“Karacharana Kritam Vaa, Kayajam Karmajam Vaa
Shravana Nayanajam Vaa, Maanasam Vaa Aparaadham
Vihitamavihitam Vaa, Sarvametatkshamasva
Jaya Jaya Karunaabdhe, Sri Mahadeva Shambho”
Whatever wrong I’ve done, through my hands, feet, words, thoughts, knowingly or not… forgive me. We carry so much, guilt, regret, words we can’t unsay. And yet we rarely pause to release any of it. This mantra is not about shame. It’s about honesty.
It’s a gentle confrontation with the parts of ourselves we usually avoid. And in doing so, it gives us what we secretly long for: permission to begin again.
5. Shiva Mool Mantra
“Om Namah Shivaya Shivaya Namah Om”
I surrender to the eternal. And the eternal surrenders into me. This mantra has a rhythm that works deeper than words. You don’t chant it to sound holy. You chant it because you’re tired of pretending. Tired of explaining your pain.
This is not for performance. It’s for transformation. Quiet. Real. Unseen.
We live in a time where silence is rare, and sincerity rarer. But Shiva isn’t loud. He doesn’t need temples or crowds. He meets you exactly where you are, messy, unsure, halfway between who you were and who you’re becoming. So if this last Monday of Sawan feels like a crossroads, that’s because it is. Use these mantras, not as a ritual to tick off, but as mirrors. Let them show you what you’ve buried. Let them remind you of what doesn’t need fixing, just witnessing.
Because maybe you’re not lost. Maybe you’re just in between. And Shiva? He’s always been the God of the in-between.
1. Maha Mrityunjaya Mantra
Urvarukamiva Bandhanan Mrityor Mukshiya Maamritat”
A prayer to Shiva for liberation, from death, yes, but more urgently, from fear. This mantra is often chanted for health, safety, and protection. But at its core, it’s about letting go of the fear of endings, of relationships, identities, or versions of ourselves we’ve outgrown.
It teaches that what dies was never the essence anyway. That true healing isn’t the absence of pain, but the presence of courage.
2. Rudra Gayatri Mantra
Tanno Rudrah Prachodayat”
Help me know you, Shiva. Help me reflect you. Help me walk as you. Shiva is not a God who asks for blind belief. He is the questioner, the rebel, the destroyer of illusions. Chanting this mantra is not about worship, it’s about alignment. You’re not asking for favors.
You’re asking to embody clarity, stillness, and truth. To see through things, instead of just looking at them.
3. Panchakshari Mantra
I bow to Shiva. I surrender to the Self that knows. This is the mantra you whisper when everything feels overwhelming and you don’t have the strength to understand it all. It doesn’t need your logic. It only asks for your presence. With every chant, it softens your grip, on control, on expectations, on the story you’re clinging to.
It doesn’t solve the chaos. It holds you steady inside it.
4. Shiv Dhyan Mantra
Shravana Nayanajam Vaa, Maanasam Vaa Aparaadham
Vihitamavihitam Vaa, Sarvametatkshamasva
Jaya Jaya Karunaabdhe, Sri Mahadeva Shambho”
Whatever wrong I’ve done, through my hands, feet, words, thoughts, knowingly or not… forgive me. We carry so much, guilt, regret, words we can’t unsay. And yet we rarely pause to release any of it. This mantra is not about shame. It’s about honesty.
It’s a gentle confrontation with the parts of ourselves we usually avoid. And in doing so, it gives us what we secretly long for: permission to begin again.
5. Shiva Mool Mantra
I surrender to the eternal. And the eternal surrenders into me. This mantra has a rhythm that works deeper than words. You don’t chant it to sound holy. You chant it because you’re tired of pretending. Tired of explaining your pain.
This is not for performance. It’s for transformation. Quiet. Real. Unseen.
FINAL NOTE:
Because maybe you’re not lost. Maybe you’re just in between. And Shiva? He’s always been the God of the in-between.