Aum saha naavavathu sahanau bhunaktu
Saha veeryam kara vaavahai
Tejasvi naavadheetamastu maa vidwishaavahai
Aum Shantih Shantih Shantihi

May the Lord protect us both, may He nourish us both, may we work together with great vigor (divine strength). May we both acquire brilliance of our intellect through our studies, may we not hate each other. Let there be peace, peace, peace.

Aum poornamadah poornamidam
Poornaath poornam udachyathe
Poornasya poornamaadaaya
Poornameva vasishyathe

God is perfect (infinite). This Universe is also perfect (infinite). If perfection (infinity) is taken from anything perfect (infinite) what remains is still perfect (infinite). Let there be peace, peace, peace.

Asatoma sadgamaya
Thamaso maa jyothir gamaya
Mrithyor maa amrutham gamaya
Aum Shanti Shanti Shantihi

Lead me from the unreal to the real. Lead me from darkness to light. Lead me from death to immortality. May there be peace everywhere.

Aum tryambakam yajaamahe
sugandhim pushtivardhanam
Urvaarukamiva bandhanaat
mrityormukshiya maamritaat

We pay homage to the universal consciousness which nourishes all beings. May we be liberated from the death of ignorance through knowledge of our immortal essence, Just as the cucumber is severed from the bondage of the vine.

Aum bhuur bhuva svaha
tatsavitur varenyam
bhargo devasya dhiimahi
dhiyo yonah prachodayat

We meditate on that which is eternal, that light of wisdom and truth which permeates all realms of experience; the creative principal manifesting through the radiance of consciousness. That light which bestows wisdom, bliss and eternal life is the quintessence of everything that leads us to illumination.

The opening invocation for Ashtanga Vinyasa

Vande gurunam charanara vinde
Sandarsita svatma sukhava bodhe
Nihsreyase jangalikayamane
Samsara halahala mohasantyai

Abahu purusakaram
Sankhacakrasi dharinam
Sahasra sirasam svetam
Pranamami patanjalim
Aum

I bow to the lotus feet of the guru who awakens insight into the happiness of pure Being, who is the final refuge, the jungle physician, who eliminates the delusion caused by the poisonous herb of samsara [conditioned existence]. I prostrate before the sage Patanjali who has thousands of radiant, white heads [in his form as the divine serpent, Ananta] and who has, as far as his arms, assumed the form of a man holding a conch shell [divine sound], a wheel [discus of light, representing infinite time] and a sword  [discrimination]. AUM