Wayist Paragate Dharani

Om… Om… Om…

oṃ te yathāgate gāte parāgate

parasaṅgate bodhini svāhā

Om… Om…

oṃ te yathāgate gāte parāgate

parasaṅgate bodhini svāhā

Om… Om… Om…

Once ignorant, my soul found love

Awareness came like light above

Expanding wide, expanding far

To Spirit’s shore beyond the stars

Om…

oṃ te yathāgate gāte parāgate

parasaṅgate bodhini svāhā

Om… Om… Om…

Gone and gone beyond the gate

Gone completely to that furthest state

Awakening at the final shore

Thanks to You, whom we adore

Om… Om… Om…

Gate gate parāgate

Parasaṅgate bodhini

Te yathāgate svāhā

Om…

Om… Om… Om…

Om…

Om… Om… Om…

Om…

Wayist Insight

The Gate mantra is one of the most widely chanted sacred phrases in the world. The Wayist version carries distinctive differences from the Buddhist form — small shifts in wording that carry large shifts in meaning.

The Sanskrit traces the soul’s entire journey in a single breath:

Te yathāgate — To You who have thus gone. The mantra begins with devotion — addressing the divine being(s) who have already completed the journey. This is not abstract meditation but a prayer directed to someone.

Gāte — Gone. The first movement: departure from ignorance.

Parāgate — Gone beyond. The second movement: transcending the ordinary, crossing the threshold into deeper awareness.

Parasaṅgate — Gone completely beyond. The third movement: arriving at the furthest shore, the complete transformation.

Bodhini svāhā — Awakening, unto heaven. The Wayist version uses bodhini (a feminine awakening form) rather than the more common bodhi svāhā. This subtle change honours the feminine aspect of awakening and connects to the Tara tradition.

The English verses make the Wayist reading explicit. The first verse names the journey as personal and emotional — “my soul found love” — not philosophical detachment but an encounter with divine love that triggers awareness. The second verse translates the Sanskrit stages directly, and then adds what many Gate mantra versions leave out: gratitude. “Thanks to You, whom we adore.” This is not impersonal liberation. Someone helped. Someone guided. The soul did not arrive alone.

The closing line distils the entire dharani into seven words: From ignorance through love to the furthest shore. That middle word — love — is where Wayism parts company with traditions that frame the journey as knowledge alone.

Mantras marked “Wayist Traditional” are public domain sacred chants preserved within theWAY lineage.