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A free Om Namah Shivaya Counter online — one tap per jaap, a completed mala at every 108. A simple Shiv mantra jaap counter for any phone or laptop: no app, no credit card.
ॐ नमः शिवाय
Five syllables — five elements
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Om Namah Shivaya, Har Har Mahadev, Samb Sadashiv, or Om Namo Bhagavate Rudraya — one tap is one repetition, whichever call rises. Underneath sits a plain Shiv mantra jaap counter, and Bholenath answers to many names: Mahadev, Mahakal, Shankar, Shambhu, Neelkanth, Rudra.
Whether you arrived searching for a Shiv jap counter online, a Shiv japa counter, or a Shiva mantra counter — it is the same tool. With Premium you set whichever naam is yours, with an image of Shiva if you like, and every session opens ready. The Shiva Gayatri and even a bare Om count the same way: one tap per complete repetition.
ॐ नमः शिवाय
Om Namah Shivaya
हर हर महादेव
Har Har Mahadev
साम्ब सदाशिव
Samb Sadashiv
ॐ नमो भगवते रुद्राय
Om Namo Bhagavate Rudraya
Five syllables, five elements
Panchakshari Mantra — Na Ma Shi Va Ya, the Five Elements
Om Namah Shivaya means “Om, I bow to Shiva, the auspicious one” — Namah is “I bow”, Shivaya is “to Shiva”; nothing is asked for, it is simply a bow offered again and again with love. Strip the Om and what remains is the Panchakshara — the five-syllable heart of Shaivism: Na, Ma, Shi, Va, Ya. The tradition maps the five syllables to the five elements — earth, water, fire, air, ether — so that one slow repetition passes through everything a body and a world are made of. Add the Om and the five become six, the Shadakshara; Namah Shivaya alone is the form found in the Shri Rudram, Om Namah Shivaya the form most people chant today, and both count here the same way.
These syllables are very old. Na-Ma-Shi-Va-Ya appears in the Shri Rudram of the Yajurveda, and Adi Shankaracharya sang of the five syllables one by one in his Panchakshara Stotra. When you count a mala of Om Namah Shivaya, you are keeping company with a sound the Vedas have carried for thousands of years.
ॐ नमः शिवाय
Om Namah Shivaya
न
Na · Earth
Prithvi
मः
Ma · Water
Jala
शि
Shi · Fire
Agni
वा
Va · Air
Vayu
य
Ya · Ether
Akasha
One repetition — through all five
The ascent
Om Namah Shivaya 108 Times — The Ascent of a Mala
A mala of Om Namah Shivaya is 108 repetitions, climbed one jaap at a time — and at the 108th, the mala closes and the next leg begins on its own. Built on the same free online japa counter used across traditions — here it counts Shiv jaap. If you searched for a digital rudraksha mala, a Shiv japa mala online, or an online mala for Shiva, this is that tool — a free Om Namah Shivaya counter online, the same free Shiv jap counter for every Shiva naam, in any browser with no app to install. It holds through weak signal too: every tap is saved in your browser the moment it lands.
Rudraksha is Shiva's own bead, and a rudraksha mala — the traditional Shiv japa mala — remains the best way to do Shiv jaap; nothing here replaces it. But the power of the mantra lives in the sound and the sincerity, not in what keeps the count. When your mala is not with you — travelling, at work, in a waiting room — counting by another honest means is fully acceptable. Let this counter be your help in those moments, never a replacement.
How many times should you chant Om Namah Shivaya? Begin with 108 — one mala. Devotees commonly chant one, three, or nine malas daily, or a full 1,008, and the climb grows the way Shiva sankalps always have: the classic vow is the sava lakh — 1,25,000 jaap, about 1,158 malas — taken for a Sawan or a Solah Somvar season and finished months later; a rare few carry the ascent to a crore. The counter's lifetime total holds the whole climb, so the vow never loses its place on the mountain, and with Premium a daily goal and a streak carry a long sankalp through busy weeks.
Why this mantra
Benefits of Chanting Om Namah Shivaya Daily
The tradition makes a large and gentle promise: the Panchakshara purifies the one who chants it, as fire purifies gold. Devotees describe it in smaller, everyday words — a slower breath, a steadier temper, sleep that comes more easily, and one fixed point that holds the day together. Chanted slowly with the breath, it is mantra meditation at its simplest.
It is also completely open. Om Namah Shivaya asks for no initiation, no qualification, and no gender — women and men, any age, any background may chant it, anywhere, beginning tonight with one mala of 108. Devotees lovingly call him Bholenath — the innocent one, the easiest of all to please. Of the two great Shiva mantras, Om Namah Shivaya is the mantra of daily surrender and purification, the simple bow; the Maha Mrityunjaya is chanted for healing and protection in difficult times — both are counted in malas of 108, and both can be counted here.
Begin gently. One unhurried mala of 108 tonight is worth more than a grand plan for tomorrow. The naam does the deeper work; the counter only keeps the number safe.
As for the best time and day: Brahma muhurta, the quiet hours before dawn, is the traditional hour, and Monday is Shiva's day. No deity keeps a fuller chanting calendar. Every Monday is Shiva's day; Pradosh opens a jaap window twice a month; Masik Shivratri returns monthly; and the whole month of Sawan — July–August, with dates shifting by regional calendar — is the year's high season, when Kanwar pilgrims walk and every Sawan Somvar multiplies the jaap. Above them all stands Maha Shivratri (February–March), the night kept awake through four prahars of chanting. Many devotees chant facing east or north; but chanting daily at any hour is better than waiting for the perfect hour.
The calendar's deepest vow is the Solah Somvar — sixteen Mondays in a row of fasting and jaap, often begun in Sawan: a sankalp with a clear finish line. Count it here and the vow stays visible; with Premium every Monday's jaap is saved with its date and a streak protects the habit between them. And Sawan is not kept only in India: devotees abroad keep it at home — jalabhishek at the altar, jaap counted on the same screen, sixteen Mondays anywhere on earth.
namah shivaya cha shivataraya cha
Nagendraharaya Trilochanaya
हर हर महादेव
The roar of the Shaiva world — from Kashi's ghats to the Kanwar roads.
सोमवार
Somvar
Every Monday
प्रदोष
Pradosh
Twice a month
मासिक शिवरात्रि
Masik Shivratri
Every month
सावन
Sawan · Shravan
July–August
महाशिवरात्रि
Maha Shivratri
February–March
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Free Om Namah Shivaya Counter vs NaamJapa Premium
The counter at the top of this page is a free Om Namah Shivaya counter for everyone — no account needed. NaamJapa Premium turns it into a complete companion for your daily Shiv jaap:
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- Accurate 108-bead mala counting
- Tap or slide to count
- Session and per-mala timer
- Undo, reset and fullscreen chanting
- Works in any browser on any device
- No cloud backup
- No history or analytics
- No cross-device sync
Everything is saved on this device only — clearing the browser clears your total.
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- Cloud sync and backupEvery chant saved to your account, on all your devices
- Daily goals, streaks and milestonesConsistency without pressure
- Full history and deep analyticsDays, months, years — charts and comparisons
- RemindersA gentle nudge at the time you choose
- Discreet modeChant privately in public — dark screen, quiet cues
- Auto and camera modes, sounds, vibrationHands-free counting and completion feedback
- Your deity on the mandalaSet the name or image you chant for
Prefer a phone? The naam japa counter app for Android chants fully offline and syncs to the same account.