Om Namo Narayanaya

[2] It is an invocation addressed to Narayana, the god of preservation, the form of Vishnu who lays in eternal rest beneath the cosmic waters.

[5]According to the Tarasara Upanishad, om is the divine sacred syllable that represents the nature of Brahman, the Ultimate Reality that is unchanging and eternal.

[7] The sage and philosopher Yajnavalkya provides an explanation of the breakdown of the components of the mantra:[8] In the Vaishnava Upanishads, the Samashti-Yantra, the words described over Ananta, the seat of Vishnu, bear the ashtakshara.

[12] Periyalvar, an Alvar, a poet-saint of the Sri Vaishnava tradition, invoked the mantra to convince the Pandya king of Madurai of the supremacy of Vishnu.

[13] According to the Sri Vaishnava narrative, the theologian Ramanuja is regarded to have revealed this secret mantra from the tower of the Tirukoshtiyur temple to the crowd gathered outside the shrine.

[18] According to Vaishnava theology, it is held that whoever studies this ashtakshara of Narayana and recites it constantly attains a full life, supremacy over men, enjoys the pleasures of royalty, and becomes the master of all souls.