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Gayatri Mantra


OM BHUR BHUVAH SVAH
TAT
SAVITUR VARENYAM
BHARGO DEVASYA DHIMAHI
DHIYO YONAH
PRACHODAYAT

English Translation

Throughout all of existence
"That" essential nature
illuminating existence is the
Adorable One.
May all beings perceive with subtle intellect
the magnificent brilliance of enlightened awareness.
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The balanced qualities of the Mantra
The Gayatri is a perfectly balanced mantra, yin and yang. The body or text of the Gayatri Mantra is feminine, and her message or invocation is masculine. Gayatri is the mother of the Vedas and this means the mother of all knowledge. She appeals to the masculine Savitur, which is said to be the radiance of perception and intelligence. This radiance, which is everywhere and in every experience, is likened to the radiance of our solar sun. In other words, all of the knowledge of the intricate ways of existence is contained within the syllables of the mantra and so too is the means and vehicle with which to go beyond knowledge as well.

Gayatri Mantra's vibrational influence on the physical body.
Silently thinking or speaking or chanting the Gayatri Mantra influences the physical body, clears the emotional body, leads one to the inner heart. The Gayatri stimulates and facilitates insightfulness and awakening to the Truth within all.

Our energy centers, levels and rhythms are activated by the measure of breaths that are drawn in through the nostrils and released during recitation of the Gayatri Mantra, (even during silent repetition). This balances electromagnetic rhythm and energy currents in the body with prana. Prana is an undetectable life force energy, similar to orgone. During recitation, all elements of the mantra are in use; even the breath is a precision instrument. It all works together, like an orchestra and the Conductor. The breath, voice, meditation and intention efficiently and effortlessly function (like the sun shines).

The Vedas are ancient (from beginning-less time) scriptures that reveal the secrets of life and the way to live it in accord with the entire universe.

Not only the well-known chakra system but all energy and rejuvenating centers are activated by the sound of the Gayatri.
The mantra works in a multitude of ways, which align the energies, magnetic currents, biochemistry and brainwave patterns on a very subtle level. Immediately or in time, one will notice the wonderful effect.

By chanting the Gayatri Mantra, the mantra itself reveals the teachings within it. The Gayatri is flawless and whole. The Gayatri Mantra regenerates unobstructed perception in the same way that crops are renewed. For example, wind carries seeds onto the terrain. In time, wild flowers and wheat inherit the fields. Again and again an unobstructed flow, season after season. The earth propagates her released seeds and in turn the seeds flourish and produce another generation. The mantra works like that. Gayatri's meaning is the good season that prospers the Earth. Fruit comes forth again and again. Gayatri is like the power in the sun.

How can we really speak about such a thing, is it comprehensible at all? Any definition that you hear can be compared to one grain of sand upon infinite shores. A definition can never indicate the immense significance and intensity of this mantra.

I feel a kind of magic chanting the Gayatri mantra. Why are the Sanskrit language and this mantra so strong?
Remember that this explanation is not even a fraction of the profound possibilities lying in the secret recesses of this mantra. The Gayatri Mantra aligns precisely balanced energies, unobstructed and distinct, to generate currents, which act like lasers. Intoning a true pitch, word and meter (Sanskrit) translates sound waves, one retrogressing into another. You can visualize a still pond and as a pebble touches the surface on its way to the bottom, rings are formed. If you watch these rings for a while you would see them moving out and in at the same time. This is an illustration and not truly the pattern of Gayatri's yantra but it gives you an idea.

The mantra's potency becomes more and more rarefied until it reaches a frequency that carries the inherent message within the mantra to its proper place. These sound vibrations are encoded in electromagnetic waves. They rarefy to finer and finer frequencies until no frequent vibration or information is detectable. Though no frequency is detected, information is still present (like in the case of homeopathy) on the subtlest level. The more refined the mantra frequency moves into the field of sound, the greater its power. This is true for enlightenment as well.

A very subtle perception can powerfully awaken you to the "Truth". The Gayatri's message speaks of being deeply focused on that which illumines the whole of consciousness, and ultimately realizing enlightenment. Its reference is plural and impersonal. The mantra when chanted properly is indeed magical. It's a beauty. It is a joy.

This jeweled Gayatri Initiation is a privilege for us.
There was once a time when the Gayatri Mantra was not spoken outwardly, it was repeated only in silence or whispered on the tip of the tongue. This method of chanting is a very subtle and powerful way to repeat the mantra. There was a time when women did not chant the mantra. There was also a time when only the *Brahmin priests and no others chanted the Gayatri Mantra.

It seems that the change came when the world events began to turn towards a darker time. Now millions of men and women from every walk of life repeat and chant this beautiful and powerfully precision invocation. Because of its universal appeal and content, this mantra cannot rightfully be associated with a particular religion. The Hindus were the guardians of the Gayatri. It was they who taught it and propagated it throughout the world. You could say that the Gayatri Mantra is their gift to the spirit of humanity and the awakening of the planet. However the scope of Gayatri's invocation is universal and transgresses all borders.

Everything is useful if you use it.
Sparkling in the sunrise and clinging to the fields, the morning dew appears by mantra. Then again disappears by mantra, in the heat of the noonday sun.
The Gayatri Mantra is a vibration that sets up a condition of receptivity and openness. Like the buzzing of a bee contributes to the full web of experience

Awakening all
It may seem that enlightenment is a personal matter, but it is not. Enlightenment has no room for anyone. This road leads to a narrow door Just one alone can enter. Beyond that door no one no more...


The Zen Master sits in the garden,
deep in his prayer.
Turning the beads, he is aware
that he is a Buddha,
from long ago

Salutations to that mysterious power which makes the illusion seem real. Salutations to the true reality, which is hidden in the silence of the heart.



How can the Gayatri Mantra make my life more livable?
You don't make the sun and water useful in your life; the sun and water are useful in your life by their very nature. You don't make the Gayatri useful; it is useful, by its nature. You do not maneuver subtle insights, in the same way that you don't force a plant to bloom. You water the plant, and in its own time when all the conditions are right the flower blooms. You repeat the Gayatri Mantra because you love to do it, not to seek a result.
So too, when you eat good organic foods, your body takes care to process and then life force vitalizes. After the taste of food has faded, you even forget that food is processing in your body. The Gayatri is also wholesome food to support your spiritual life (awakening). *When the Mantra is charged with the shakti of the Master it becomes a direct line to the Master within you. The inner Master is the one expanding the Gayatri's potential in your life. You have nothing to do except enjoy the chanting of this beautiful sound... If you feel like it... If not, what you have already done will serve you forever, and the world as well. * The Master's shakti is a particularly powerful and direct energy acquired through the lineage of previous Masters. Also, mantra shakti is acquired by direct realization of the potency and inner meaning of a mantra.




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