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Om Namah Shivaya! Om Namah Shivaya! Om Namah Shivaya! This is the Sanskrit mantra (invocation) chanted by pilgrims and devotees of Lord Shiva as they walk (clockwise) around the great, unscaled, sacred Himalayan peak, Mount Kailasa. This chant means, Om, I bow to Lord Shiva. And this act of great austerity is considered by both Hindus & Buddhists alike as a very pious and difficult sacrifice leading to good fortune and ultimate beatitude.

In the Sanskrit-English dictionary of Prof. V.S. Apte, Kailasa is defined as, Name of a mountain, a peak of the Himalayas and residence of Shiva. In the same dictionary, Shiva is defined as, Auspicious, propitious, lucky, in good health or condition, happy, prosperous, fortunate, God bless!, name of the third God of the sacred Hindu Trinity (Tri-guna-avatars), who is entrusted with the work of universal destruction, as Brahma and Visnu are with the creation and preservation of the (material) world(s) respectively.