ੴ ਪੂਰ੍ਣਮਦਃ ਪੂਰ੍ਣਮਿਦਮ੍
Om Purnamadah Purnamidam in Punjabi (Gurmukhi) · ਪੰਜਾਬੀ
ਉਤਪਤੀ ਅਤੇ ਕਥਾ
Isha Upanishad (Shanti Patha); also Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 5.1.1 · Vedic seers (Shukla Yajurveda tradition) · Ancient (Vedic)
This verse opens the Isha Upanishad as its peace invocation. In a single image — the whole (purna) — it captures the non-dual vision of Vedanta: the infinite Brahman is complete, the universe born from it is complete, and the source remains complete even as the world pours forth. For millennia it has framed the study of the Upanishads, reminding the seeker that the Self they search for is already full and lacking nothing.
✦ ਸ਼ਾਸਤਰਾਂ ਵਿੱਚ ਦੱਸੇ ਅਨੁਸਾਰ
Teachers of Vedanta say this verse can shift a life: where the mind constantly feels it lacks something, the mantra insists you are already whole. Seekers who sit with 'Purnamadah Purnamidam' describe a quiet falling-away of grasping and anxiety — not because anything was added, but because they glimpsed the completeness that was never missing.
ਅਰਥ ਸਹਿਤ ਪੂਰਾ ਪਾਠ
ਕਿਸੇ ਵੀ ਪੰਗਤੀ ਜਾਂ ▶ ਬਟਨ ਨੂੰ ਛੂਹ ਕੇ ਸੁਣੋ
ੴ ਪੂਰ੍ਣਮਦਃ ਪੂਰ੍ਣਮਿਦਂ ਪੂਰ੍ਣਾਤ੍ਪੂਰ੍ਣਮੁਦਚ੍ਯਤੇ। ਪੂਰ੍ਣਸ੍ਯ ਪੂਰ੍ਣਮਾਦਾਯ ਪੂਰ੍ਣਮੇਵਾਵਸ਼ਿਸ਼੍ਯਤੇ॥
Om Purnamadah Purnamidam Purnat Purnamudachyate Purnasya Purnamadaya Purnamevavashishyate
ਅਰਥ:That is whole; this is whole. From the whole, the whole arises. When the whole is taken from the whole, the whole alone remains. Om, peace, peace, peace.
ੴ ਸ਼ਾਨ੍ਤਿਃ ਸ਼ਾਨ੍ਤਿਃ ਸ਼ਾਨ੍ਤਿਃ॥
Om Shanti Shanti Shanti
ਅਰਥ:It teaches that the infinite (Brahman) and the manifest world are both complete — and that the infinite, even as the universe springs from it, loses nothing and remains forever full.
ਸ਼ਬਦ-ਸ਼ਬਦ ਅਰਥ
ਉਚਾਰਨ ਸੁਣਨ ਲਈ ਕਿਸੇ ਵੀ ਸ਼ਬਦ ਉੱਤੇ ਕਲਿੱਕ ਕਰੋ
Om Purnamadah Purnamidam ਪਾਠ ਦੇ ਲਾਭ
The 'Shanti Patha' (peace invocation) of the Isha Upanishad — chanted to open and close study of the Upanishads
Expresses the heart of Vedanta: the infinite remains infinite even as the universe arises from it
Recited before sacred reading, satsang and meditation to settle the mind in wholeness
A profound contemplation that dissolves the sense of lack — 'you are already complete'
Sealed with 'Om Shanti Shanti Shanti', the threefold peace
Om Purnamadah Purnamidam ਪਾਠ ਵਿਧੀ
Chant slowly, letting the repeated word 'purnam' (whole, full) settle in the mind. Recite it before opening a sacred text and again on closing, finishing with 'Om Shanti Shanti Shanti'. Rest for a moment in the felt sense of completeness it points to.
ਅਕਸਰ ਪੁੱਛੇ ਜਾਂਦੇ ਸਵਾਲ
ਇਹ ਵੀ ਪੜ੍ਹੋ
ॐ
ਪੂਰਾ Om Purnamadah Purnamidam ਸ਼ਲੋਕ-ਦਰ-ਸ਼ਲੋਕ ਅਰਥ ਸਹਿਤ ਪੜ੍ਹੋ, ਜਾਂ ਹੋਰ ਪਵਿੱਤਰ ਪਾਠ ਵੇਖੋ