To Mahamuni about interesting info I found on Gayatri

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Mahamuni wrote:

 

If by Gayatri you mean the Mantra "om tat savitur...", then I can give so

many reasons why it should be called a Mantra.

The word "Gayatri" is in fact a technical term that is used for a

particular meter of Vedic poetry. This meter is only used in the Veda and

most of the Vedic Mantras are in Gayatri Chanda, as is also the famous

Gayatri Mantra. It is called "Gayatri Mantra" because it is constructed in

Gayatri Chanda (having three paadas, not four paadas like in an Anushtup

Chanda)...

 

 

 

Dear Mahamuni ~ I am glad to read what you have written. I must have missed

a digest because when I came to this one I found a lively discussion about

free will vs no free will and, from what you have written, it sounds like

someone must have been questioning whether or not the Gayatri Mantra is a

mantra or

not. Everytime I have seen or heard about the Gayatri Mantra it has been

presented as a mantra, so I'm not sure where the idea that it isn't would have

come from.

 

One thing that I discovered recently, though, is that there is more than one

Gayatri Mantra, so I think your mention of Saavitri, the deity who is

glorified in the Gayatri Mantra was good information to provide. I have been

reading/reciting the "Cosmic Puja," which is described as a meditation and

worship

of all forms of divinity in the existence. Within this scripture, there is a

short puja to Ganesha. After a brief honorific verse, there comes the:

 

ganesha gayatri

 

om tat purushaya vidmahe vakratundaya dhimahi tanno danti prachodayat

 

Om we meditate on the Perfect Consciousness, we contemplate the One with

abroken tooth. May that One with the Great Tusk grant us increase.

 

I love this ganesha gayatri, and I suspect that there are others as well.

 

Jai Sri Ganesha ~ Linda

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Hi Linda,

 

I didn't write the post. I copied it from the web. Its good that you have

discovered the other gayatri mantras. There are so many and all are great!

 

Pranams,

 

Surya

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nierika

Ammachi

Tuesday, April 18, 2006 7:07 AM

Re: To Mahamuni about interesting info I found on Gayatri

 

 

 

Mahamuni wrote:

 

If by Gayatri you mean the Mantra "om tat savitur...", then I can give so

many reasons why it should be called a Mantra.

The word "Gayatri" is in fact a technical term that is used for a

particular meter of Vedic poetry. This meter is only used in the Veda and

most of the Vedic Mantras are in Gayatri Chanda, as is also the famous

Gayatri Mantra. It is called "Gayatri Mantra" because it is constructed in

Gayatri Chanda (having three paadas, not four paadas like in an Anushtup

Chanda)...

 

 

 

Dear Mahamuni ~ I am glad to read what you have written. I must have missed

a digest because when I came to this one I found a lively discussion about

free will vs no free will and, from what you have written, it sounds like

someone must have been questioning whether or not the Gayatri Mantra is a

mantra or

not. Everytime I have seen or heard about the Gayatri Mantra it has been

presented as a mantra, so I'm not sure where the idea that it isn't would

have

come from.

 

One thing that I discovered recently, though, is that there is more than one

Gayatri Mantra, so I think your mention of Saavitri, the deity who is

glorified in the Gayatri Mantra was good information to provide. I have been

reading/reciting the "Cosmic Puja," which is described as a meditation and

worship

of all forms of divinity in the existence. Within this scripture, there is a

short puja to Ganesha. After a brief honorific verse, there comes the:

 

ganesha gayatri

 

om tat purushaya vidmahe vakratundaya dhimahi tanno danti prachodayat

 

Om we meditate on the Perfect Consciousness, we contemplate the One with

abroken tooth. May that One with the Great Tusk grant us increase.

 

I love this ganesha gayatri, and I suspect that there are others as well.

 

Jai Sri Ganesha ~ Linda

 

 

 

 

 

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