It is believed that trivaram satyam - that which is said thrice comes true. For emphasizing a point we repeat a thing thrice. In the court of law also, one who takes the witness stands says, “I shall speak the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth”. TripleTalaq is a Sunni Islamic procedure whereby a husband can divorce his wife by saying to her “talaq, talaq, talaq” (“I divorce you”, three times).
Prayer is to get something for which we have an intense desire like Shaanti which means “peace” or inner happiness.
There is only love in the universe. Hatred is withdrawal of love. It follows the same principle of light and darkness. There is no darkness in the universe it is only absence of light.
Similarly there is only peace in the natural environment (both external and internal). Peace naturally exists in a place until someone makes noise (external or internal).
Internally peace underlies all agitations and negativity of the mind. When negative thoughts end peace is the only happening as it was already there.
Peace is there but coved and controlled bykama, krodha, lobha, moha and ahankar. It is to be earned by removing these five gateways to the hell.
To invoke peace, one meditates or chant prayers. By chanting prayers, one shifts one’s awareness from sympathetic to parasympathetic mode, a state of relaxation.
All prayers end by chanting shaanti thrice.
Some interpret it as if chanting first time loudest, addresses the unseen forces (Aadhidaivik, the natural disasters), second time, addresses the immediate surroundings (Aadhibhautika: external modifiable factors) and softest the last and third time addresses oneself (Aadhyaatmika)
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