While the chant itself is as ancient as the Vedas—reverberating through Himalayan caves and temple corridors for millennia—its modern, ubiquitous avatar has a specific, almost unlikely, godfather:
Before we explore the music, we must understand the power of the words. "Om Namah Shivay" is often called the Panchakshara Mantra (the five-syllable mantra). om namah shivay t series