Gayatri Mantra : a link (Was Meaning of Gayatri Mantra #1)

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Dear Friends,

 

 

Here's a link on the importance of Gayatri Mantra,

http://www.kamakoti.org/hindudharma/part17/chap12.htm ... translation

of a talk given by His Holines Sri Sri Sri Chandrasekharendra

Saraswathi Swamiji of Kanchi Kamakoti Peetham

 

Venkatesh

 

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> Dear friends,

>

> Upon reading Sri Sidha's wonderful posting on the Gayatri Mantra, I

> realised that I had made a compilation in March this year and had

> not posted it to Advaitin. Here it is. Information on the

referencing is

> below this email and for each of the five faces (lines) of the

Gayatri

> Mantra, there will be one posting. Comments are welcomed.

>

>

> --------------- "Gayatri"

>

> Gayatri: "Gayantham Trayate ithi Gayatri" , that which protects the

> one who recites it. (SSB, 10-Feb-2000)

>

> --------------- First face: OM (Pranava)

>

> "Pranava is present in every living being The pranava mantra ranks

> higher than all this music. It is all pervasive and ever present.

There

> cannot be a single moment when we are not listening to this pranava

.. Nor

> can we dispense with it even for a second. The Pranava is present in

every

> living being. The Pranava is the primordial sound on which all

sounds are

> based. The Pranava has been equated with the Brahman (the Cosmic

Self)."

> (SSB, 1-Oct-1987)

>

> "In this sense, Om is the Pratiika or representative of the Radical

> Vital Potential of the Universe and the Trinity of Energies by which

It

> actualises and materialises Itself as the five forms of 'matter' ...

> Through the worship and meditation on this Pratiika, with all its

> implications, man, according to Advaita VedAnta, realises himself as

the

> one vital Shakti who is the Mother of all." (JW, p. 220)

>

> "The four parts of Pranava The sound, OM , known as pranava has

> also four parts or stages. The sound ' A ' (as in 'manna') is a

basic

> sound in speech and is universally utilized. It is parallel to the

Viswa

> or Wakeful phase of man's daily life. The sound ' U ' (as in

'input') is

> indicative of the breathing process (inhaling and exhaling), which

ensures

> thejas (the glow of Vitality). The breath persists in the dream

stage and

> so it corresponds to the dreaming phase. Then we have in OM the ' M

'

> sound (as in 'am'), which closes all externalizing and internalizing

> outlets and inlets of consciousness and enables man to be alone with

his

> Reality, prajna or Brahma. So it symbolizes the condition during

sushupthi

> and can be defined as the prajna phase. The silence into which the

OM

> tapers is the consummation, the thuriya phase, when the veil of

ignorance,

> that has prevented the ecstasy of Brahman from illumining the

awareness,

> is removed and one is conscious of the mergence." (SSB, 30-Dec-1986)

>

> A, U, M also symbolizes the roles of Brahma, Vishnu Shiva

> according to sources.

>

> --------------- To be continued...

>

> The above were excerpted from the discourses of Sri Sathya Sai

> Baba (SSB) and from Sir John Woodroffe's book, "The Garland of

> Letters" (3rd Edition 1955) (JW). Anything that is not referenced

> are comments.

>

>

>

> --

> Warmest regards,

> Ruben

> rubenn

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