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    The Meaning of GAyatri Mantram

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    The summary of the document is: 1) The Gayatri Mantra is a significant mantra recited in Hinduism during Upanayanam, a ritual where boys are initiated into spiritual studies. 2) It consists of three lines praising Savitr, the sun god who is seen as the giver of knowledge and enlightenment. 3) Chanting the Gayatri Mantra is believed to sharpen one's intellect and provide both seen and unseen benefits like focus, clarity, and spiritual merits.

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    The summary of the document is: 1) The Gayatri Mantra is a significant mantra recited in Hinduism during Upanayanam, a ritual where boys are initiated into spiritual studies. 2) It consists of three lines praising Savitr, the sun god who is seen as the giver of knowledge and enlightenment. 3) Chanting the Gayatri Mantra is believed to sharpen one's intellect and provide both seen and unseen benefits like focus, clarity, and spiritual merits.

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    The summary of the document is: 1) The Gayatri Mantra is a significant mantra recited in Hinduism during Upanayanam, a ritual where boys are initiated into spiritual studies. 2) It consists of three lines praising Savitr, the sun god who is seen as the giver of knowledge and enlightenment. 3) Chanting the Gayatri Mantra is believed to sharpen one's intellect and provide both seen and unseen benefits like focus, clarity, and spiritual merits.

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    The Meaning of gAyatri mantram

    By Mani ji, orkut community


    ; : : om bhU; bhuva: suva: : om tat savitu: varENyam :

    bharga: dEvasya dhImahi : : : dhiya: ya: na: prachodayAt What I write here is applicable
    to those who have been inititated to the mantram in a ritual called upanayanam. Gayatri mantram is
    perhaps one of the most signigicant mantrams that comes in the life of a vaidika. upanayanam means to
    take the a child (who studies under his father for the first 12 years of his life).. and then child is sent to
    gurukulam by the famly to study one shAkhA of the veda to which that family belongs.. upa means near
    and nayanam means the process of taking to or leading to.. The child thus initiated into gAyatri alone is
    fit to study the veda. om bhU; bhuva: suva: The mantram iself has 8 aksharas.. The first one is to
    indicate that the entire creation is nothing but .. the meaning of om has been explained in a different
    link in this community.. It represents the waking, dreaming, and deep sleep stages of one's existence..
    that represents the entire creation.. the silence that follows the "m" sound it the layam or termination of
    everything.. then.. from that silence the creation starts again.. waking, dreaming, and sleeping, silence..
    bhU; is planet earth.. bhuva: and suva: are higher worlds. (now don.t take a space flight tol look for
    them.. these are all for upAsanAs) om tat savitu: varENyam bharga: dEvasya dhImahi dhiya: ya: na:
    prachodayAt| dhImahi: = Let us meditate upon.. what? bharga: = on the effulgence or invisible
    presence.. ya:=of whom? and how good is that effulgence? tat savitu: dEvasya = that creator.. that
    dEva.. that god.. how good is that god? varENyam = here I do not have a good English word.. super
    duper.. excellent.. suprior most..
    utkRShtam.. etc come to my mind.. and meditating upon that effulgence does what?
    prachodayAt na: = (Let that meditation) kindle and sharpen our
    dhiya: = intellect This prayer is one of the best
    Let us meditate upon the effulgence or invisible presence..of that creator.. that dEva.. that god.. (here I
    do not have a good English word..) super duper.. excellent.. suprior most.. utkRShtam.. god.. And
    meditating upon that effulgence .. let that process of constatn reflection kindle and sharpen our intellect..
    This prayer is one of the best.. becasuse without a shar sharp intellect nothing is understood by us.. Not
    just the vedas.. not just the upanishats.. not just the sciences.. nothing will stick in our memory.. nothing
    gets analyzed.. and nothing gets assimilated.. In tatvabodha I have explained the four components of
    internal organs called antah: karaNam.. manas, buddhi, ahamkAram and chittam. All of them get purified
    by the very recitation of gAyatri mantra.. gAyamtam trAyatE iti gAyatri.. Those who reflect uopn gayatri
    are protected and nourished by the very same mantra.. This mantram has a meter and svarAs associated
    with it.. and one must be initiated into cahanting this by proper vedic rituals.. So those of us who are not
    initiated by the upanayanam, can still read this as a mere chant and get the benefit.. adnd those of us
    who are initiated into gAyatri can chant this in our mind 24 7..
    Continuing on gAyatri mantram
    This mantram is so popular that there are gAyatri mantras about many dEvatas.. For example
    tatpurushaya vidmahE mahAsenAya dheemahi tanno shaNmukhaprachodyAt. is a gAyatri mantra for
    subrahmaNya (or kumara or murugan) Even in atharva vedam there is a small mantram called "gaNEsha
    athravasheerSham".. This is very popular in north, especially mahArAshtra.. whree gaNEsha is
    worshipepd as THE prime deity in many houses. That contains a very potent and highly revered gaNEsha
    gAyatri. It starts with."...... eka dantAya vidmahE vakratuNDAya dheemahi.. tannodantee prachodayAt.."
    and goes on to extol gaNEsha. How does gAyatri work? It is like every thing else in life we do.. When we
    get out of school, how do we know the subjects we learnt work? We falter initially in its application.. then
    get good at it and eventually see the results of of efforts.. gWyatri being a mantra it produces both
    dRShta phalam and adRShta phalam. the seen reslut, if one happens to have shraddhA, is the focus of

    the mind and intellect.. It helps actually focus on ANYTHING ELSE we do with clarity and alertness. This
    statement is based on personal anubhavam. Then of course, is the unseen result. or puNyam. nobody
    has seen puNyam or pAPam.. so we discard it easily. shruti is NEVER wrong in these areas.. while it
    belongs only in vyAvahArik sattaa or relative reality, IT IS THE ONLY REALITY WE AHVE TO DEAL WITH..
    so I have no trouble in accepting concepts like AK, SK, PK< and CPK. I also know that some of you have
    become as good in your understanding as I myself am at the moment.. To that extent, I consider myself
    blessed. So the AK sunseen puNya phalam is added to the SK of the mumuksu and actually when the
    past janma pApams want to bubble up to give us a cock roach body, these gAyatri puNya phalam
    HEAVILY PUSH those papams down and retain the top tier of noticeabilty by bhagavAn. That is why in
    these modern days vaidiak rituals have been replaced with simple prayers, charity, and kindness. hari:
    om
    Actually Savithavu is not the Physical Soorya but it is the eternal Light of Knowledge. (M: yes.. that is
    why I gave creator as a more apt meaning.. but when I explain these in English, something seems to be
    lost forever..! savitR is the name for sUraya also, but again when you transcend the literal meaning, ti
    becomes the light of cosciousness as well.. suryA is chidAbhAsam.. where as what really shined is "chit" I
    have heard SDS expalin the meaning as mahAvakyam also.. where he starts with the samskRta dhAtu
    "bhU sttayAm" in "om bhU;"and straightaway leads a mumukshu to limitless existence of chaitanyam..
    anantam sat.. in sat chit Anandam.. glad to see your comment.. )
    ^^^^^^^^

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