Gayatri Mantra:

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The Gayatri Mantra:

Om bhur bhuvah svah tat savitur varenyam

Bhargo devasya dhimahi dhiyo yo nah prachodayat

 

The presiding deity of the Gayatri Mantra is Lord Sun. Gayatri is

personified as a goddess, the consort of Brahma (Sarasvati), and

mother of the Vedas.

 

The Gayatri Mantra is never chanted for the purposes of material

gains, physical or otherwise. Its very invocation concludes with an

appeal to the pure Consciousness to illumine more our heart-mind.

It is a prayer unto the Self to unveil itself and come to manifest as

pure wisdom in our life.

 

The Gayatri Mantra is one of the oldest available Divine hymns.

In the ancient Vedic literature, this mantra is dedicated to the

deity Sun. This mantra is sung in the Vedic-meter called Gayatri.

This is considered to be the most important mantra written out in

Gayatri meter, and therefore, by tradition, this mantra has come to

be known as Gayatri.

 

It has actually been observed that by the repetition of this Gayatri

Mantra with the right understanding of its sacred meaning, the

ordinary negative tendencies in the human mind can be erased out to a

large extent.

 

It is believed that for any one frightened in the dark, immediate

chanting of the Gayatri Mantra is advised to get over the nervousness

of the fright.

 

It is also believed that on starting any important and great work if

a person detects some bad omen, that person must immediately sit down

and chant eleven times the Gayatri. If on starting again, he meets

with a new set of bad omens then he is to sit down again and chant

the Gayatri for sixteen times, to remove the effects of the bad omen

encountered.

 

The deeper philosophic meaning of Gayatri:

 

In our inner life, the sun represents the light-giver, the

illuminator of all experiences, the ATMAN(Soul). This pure

consciousness in us, the inner centre of our personality around which

the matter envelopments function with mathematical precision- just as

around the sun the entire solar system revolves- is being invoked to

shine more and more in our intellect.

 

Without the Atman ( the light that is our consciousness), the bodily

matters become inert and dead, just as without the sun life would

have been impossible.

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