The mantra at the end of the Heart Sutra GATE GATE PARAGATE PARASAMGATE BODHI SVAHA The key word is BODHI, a feminine noun in the vocative case, which means awakening All the other words are also in the vocative feminine and therefore modify BODHI GATE means gone Personally, while undergoing various intense experiences, including profound grief, I was guided and steadied by the mantra, "Gate, gate, paragate, parasamgate, bodhi svaha", which reminds us to not cling to anything I now recite it every time before sittingThis can be roughly translated (as by Ram Dass) as "Beyond, beyond the beyond, beyond the beyond the beyond, hail the goer" The third movement returns to MLK and uses Heart Sutra Mantra Om gate gate paragate parasamgate bodhi svaha
