Power of Gayatri Mantra

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Dear friends and devotees,

 

Bhakti is eternal.

 

Power of Gayatri Mantra.

 

Devotion pours through every page. It is said that when a work is

written with a genuine spirit of surrender, it cannot fail to stimulate devotion

in the one who reads it. The ‘Maha Brahmana’ is

such a work.

 

‘The Glory of Gayatri’ narrates the story of king Koushika

and his transformation from being a proud and haughty monarch

(rajarishi) to that of a brahmarishi Viswamitra or a mahabrahmana.

Unable to secure Nandini, the celestial cow gifted by the gods to sage

Vasishta, Koushika was humbled in battle.

 

He becomes an ascetic, performs rigorous austerities, is severely tested and

finally emerges victorious. In his final trial, it was the solar form of

Savitru that immortalized the sage by gracing him with the vision of celebrated

Gayatri mantra is closely associated with Vishwamitra.

 

According to Swami Shivananda; “Of all the mantras, the supreme

and most potent power of powers in the great glorious is Gayatri mantra. It is

the support of every seeker after Truth who believes in its efficacy, power and

glory, be he of any caste, creed, clime or sect. It is only one’s faith and

purity of heart that really count.

 

Indeed, Gayatri is an impregnable spiritual armor, a veritable fortress, those

guards and protects its votary that transforms him into the divine, and blesses

him with the brilliant light of highest spiritual illumination.â€

 

What does the word Gayatri mean? According to Bhagavan Sri Sathya SAi:

“Gayatri is that which protects the life breath or the senses,

beginning with speech. That which saves those who sing it, reveres it, repeat

it, or meditate on it is called Gayatri. Veda Mata will confer all boons on all

those who worship Her.â€

 

The Gayatri symbolizes the Divine Mother; the force that sustains all

creation.

 

(Courtesy of Sri Ramanath Narayanaswamy)

 

With love and regards,

 

Sastry.