Sri Gayatri Mantra and its Divine Energy

Gayatri Mantra

A Sanskrit syllable or a characteristic sound that is endowed with an ability to elevate the spiritual and psychological levels in human beings through meditation and chanting is known as “Mantra”.

The word ‘Mantra’ literarily means ‘tool of thought’. The mantra will calm the mind of the chanter and prepare it for meditation. There are about 70,000 mantras and each mantra has a characteristic sound and vibration. The chanter of mantra experiences the reverberation of this vibration in the body. These vibrations of mantras penetrate deep into the cells and cause healing effects.

Gayatri Matra is Maha Mantra

The Rigveda has a verse which is composed in ‘Gayatri Vedic meter’. This verse is called “Gayatri Mantra’. This mantra is dedicated to “Savitr”, the Sun deity. Sage Viswamitra created this mantra. Because of its reverence, prominence and maximum vibration energy, the Gayatri mantra is referred to as “Maha Mantra”.

The nobility of the Gayatri mantra is that it is a request to “Savitr”, the Sun deity to sumptuously enlighten and empower all of his creations. The Gayatri mantra is an ever-depleting sea of knowledge. Each word of Gayatri’s mantra is by itself is a mantra.

Sri Gayatri Mantra and its Divine Energy

Gayatri Mantra – Word by Word meaning

Sanskrit word – English Meaning

  • AUM – The Supreme Consciousness, Shabda – Brahman / Nada-Brahman.
  • Bhur – Embodies & protects spiritual vital energies.
  • Bhuvah – Eliminates suffering.
  • Svah – Embodies happiness.
  • Tat – That(Aum).
  • Savitr – Bright, self-luminous, brilliant source like Sun.
  • Varenyam – Most virtuous.
  • Bhargo – Destroyer of all imperfections.
  • Devasya – Having all divine virtues and strengths.
  • Dheemahi – Imbibe, impregnate.
  • Dhiyo – Intellect.
  • Yo – Who supreme consciousness.
  • Nah – Our – all-inclusive.
  • Prachodayat – Propel our intellect on a righteous path.

Meaning of Gayatri Mantra

“Aum! The Brahma, the Universal Divine Energy, vital spiritual energy, the essence of our life existence, Positivity, destroyer of sufferings, the happiness, that is bright, luminous like the Sun, best destroyer of evil thoughts, the divinity who grants happiness may imbibe its Divinity and Brilliance within us which may purify us and guide our righteous wisdom on the right path”.

Benefits of Chanting Gayatri Mantra

The regular chanting of the Gayatri mantra provides the following health benefits to the chanter of the mantra both at physiological and psychological levels.

  • It keeps the mind calm and cool.
  • It strengthens the body’s immunity system.
  • It controls the emotional levels.
  • It increases concentration power and learning ability.
  • It regulates the body’s blood pressure.
  • It relieves a person from breathing problems.
  • Makes the skin shiny and bright by activating skin cells.
  • Relieves a person from stress, fear, and nervousness.
  • Helps to mitigate heart problems.

Sri Gayatri Mantra – From The Perspective of Chemistry

Gayatri mantra comprises three ‘Paadaas’ (lines) with eight syllables each (a total of 24 syllables). The chanting of the Gayatri mantra generates vibrations that reverberate in the ‘atoms’ contained in the body of the chanter of the mantra.

Each Syllable of the Gayatri mantra is endowed with a specific Vibration and as a whole, the Gayatri mantra produces a Vibration in addition to the vibration corresponding to each Syllable. The Vibration of the Gayatri mantra produces Hues (colours) also for each Syllable.

Generally, human beings can utter a word from their mouth due to the involvement of various parts of the mouth such as the throat, palate, lips, teeth and tongue. Since the nerves that are located in these parts spread throughout the body, the vibration of the utterance of a word is felt over the glands/ducts located in various parts of the body. Each such gland is a storehouse of energy.

Our ancients have formulated a set of utterances in the form of a ‘Mantra’ to awaken these glands which in response secrete a specific Chemical (enzyme/hormone) thereby bestowing a beneficial physical attribute to the chanter of ‘Mantra’.

24 syllables of the Gayatri mantra

The Gayatri Maha Mantra is interwoven with 24 syllables. It is very unique that in the Gayatri mantra, each syllable itself is a ‘Mantra’.

On chanting these 24 syllables of the Gayatri mantra with a perfect nation and intensity, in the chanter’s body 24 glands get awakened, release energy and thus manifest 24 different positive attributes. Also, the style of rendering and intensity pattern of mantra chanting will have an impact on the magnitude of the outcome of the positive attributes experienced by the chanter of the mantra.

24 syllables of the Gayatri mantra

In the Gayatri mantra, there is the word “nah” which means ‘Our’. The word ‘Our’ in this context includes the entire universe with sun, planets, nature, five proto-type elements – Panchabhutas (earth, fire, water, air, space), fauna and flora, human beings and all other living and non-living entities.

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The Sun with a companion-Star, Earth-Moon, Planets-Moonsring objects, and space are part of an Atom. And everything you can see or sense on the earth or in space is made of atoms—consisting of proton(s), electron(s) and neutrons.

The Atom in which we live must have a Neutron. The ancients knew the existence of the Neutroninour-universe or Atom, giving it the name god Indra—similarly, the Sun is referred to as the god Surya and the Earth, goddess Bhoomi.

Sri Gayatri Maha Mantra

In Gayatri MahaMantra it is this god ‘Surya’ (Sun) in the form of ‘Savitr’ that is invoked to bestow good health and prosperity to mankind.

The great ‘Maharshis’ of the Vedic age with much benevolence towards mankind have included Sri Gayatri Maha Mantra and other mantras as well in the daily ritual and made it mandatory for mankind to adopt it and get adapt to it for their physical as well as psychological health benefits.

In conclusion, we can say that–” Sri Gayatri Maha Mantra encompasses everything and everything is embedded in Sri Gayatri Maha Mantra”.

Gayatri is worshipped as Vedamata

Goddess Gayatri worshipped as Vedamata

Goddess Gayatri is worshipped as Vedamata by almost all the people. The Goddess Gayatri’s Gayatri Mantra is the most divine and powerful. She is the goddess of all the Vedas, she is worshipped as ‘Vedamata‘.

It is believed in our Sanatana Dharma that the Goddess Gayatri is the manifestation and embodiment of all the three goddesses i.e.

  1. Goddess Saraswati,
  2. Goddess Parvati and
  3. Goddess Lakshmi.

And in many epics and our divine literature, she is honoured as the mother of all the Gods.

According to our Bhrugu Samhita in which it is briefed that the Goddess Gayatri is an Incarnation of Goddess Saraswati who symbolises all knowledge, Art, Music, Skills and Literature, Goddess Parvati who rules Shakti or strength, and courage and the Goddess Lakshmi who possesses wealth, treasure, Victories and Accomplishments in this creation.

Saraswati

So, as Lord Sri Krishna said in both Srimad Bhagavadgita and Srimad Bhagavatam, if you worship Goddess Gayatri, it is like you worshipping all the gods in this creation including himself as he declares he is the Gayatri mantra out of all the Veda mantras of our Sanatana Dharma.

It is like worshipping all the Vedas as she is the Vedamata according to our divine literature. Truly it is very divine and blissful to see the image or the photo of the goddess Gayatri at any time at any place.

Five Pranas or Vayus – Panchatatvas

If you see Gayatri’s photo, you will see that she is always depicted that she is sitting on a lotus. All five faces are equally distributed and depicted as if, all her faces are different and preaching something unique, different and separate. Her five faces represent the basic Five Pranas or Vayus, which are known as Prana, Apana, Vyana, Udana and Samana and also the basic five principle elements i.e. panchatatvas like earth (Prithvi), water (Jala), air (Vayu), fire (Agni) and sky (Aakash).

The Shining and Smiling face of the Goddess Gayatri always makes you more divine, inspiring and sacred, whenever you see, worship or pray to her at any time during any difficulties whatsoever in your life.

Goddess Gayatri is the Universal divine mother who is the mother of all the sacred Mantras, Vedas and Living beings of this creation according to our Sanatana Literature. Normally all the devotees are preached to chant at least 108 Gayatri Mantras thrice in a day or once in a day or at least 16 mantras thrice in a day or 108 mantras once in Brahma muhurtam i.e. in the dawn.

If the Gayatri Mantras are chanted and meditated, it is known as Gayatri Japam and if the same practice is done in the temple or with the fire, by sacrificing the pure Ghee (Cow) in the fire, then it is known as Gayatri Havan or Homan either in-home or in temples.

Gayatri Mantra

Gayatri Mantra

In our Vedic Literature, the Gayatri Mantra has been designed and created with Vedic regulations like rhyme, Vedic meter and classical–poetical syllables. Having 24 syllables, if the Gayatri Mantra is chanted with grace, divinity, prominence and bliss, it is proved time and again that all our sins, pains and depressions are nullified and due to this naturally life will become more spiritual, devotional and eternal.

If we look into the Gayatri Mantra and its chanting carefully, only the chanting of Gayatri Mantra will be,

Om bhoorbhuvahsvaha
Om Tat Saviturvarenyam
Bhargodevasyadheemahi
Dheeyoyonahprachodayat

But when we sit for penance (Tapas), we chant Gayatri Mantra but add “Om Namo Naaraayanaaya Namaha” along with Gayatri Mantra which automatically chants 108 Mula (Primary) Mantras of Sriman Narayana i.e. Lord Vishnu.

Meaning of Gayatri Mantra

Om Bhur Bhuvah Svaha

The Gayatri Mantra’s first line i.e. ‘Om Bhur Bhuvah Svaha’ is an invocation praying as ‘Om’ being the supremacy of the God,

  • ‘Bhur Bhuvah Svaha’ represents the inherent qualities and nature of God.
  • ‘Bhur’ means god’s eternal existence and ‘Bhuvah’ means Ananta or Limitless or the absolute consciousness of the god and
  • ‘Swah’ represents God’s bliss, omnipresent and omnipotent potential.

Tat Savitur Varenyam

And ‘Tat Savitur Varenyam’, ‘Tat’ represents selfless God himself and here as Lord Vishnu and ‘Savit’ leads to self-driven, self-motivational, self–engineered potential, which is the built-in nature of mankind.

Further, ‘Varenyam’ signifies acceptance of the highest master of this Universe as the God or a devotional surrenderance.

Bhargo Devasya Dhimahi

‘Bhargo Devasya Dhimahi ‘ means, ‘Bhargo’ is the divine, pure, highly potential, glorious, blissful, light or energy and ‘Devasya’ represents Absolute existence and proof of the god in all living and non-living beings of this creation and ‘Dhimahi’ means, Focusing, meditating or concentrating to reach or communicate with the god.

dhiyoyo nah prachodayat

Ultimately, ‘dhiyoyo nah prachodayat’, ‘Dhiyo’ means, identifying the supreme ability of god’s super wisdom and success and ‘yo’ means that one who and ‘Nah’ means the one who accepts all, ourness, mine and ‘prachodayaat’ means, finally praying the god for Inspiration, Guidance and Protection.

Ultimate Meaning

The ultimate meaning is,

“Oh God, the Protector, the basis of all life,

  • Who is self-existent,
  • Who is free from all pains and Whose contact frees the soul from all troubles,
  • Who pervades the Universe and sustains all, the Creator and Energizer of the whole Universe, the Giver of happiness,
  • Who is worthy of acceptance, the most excellent,
  • Who is Pure and the Purifier of all, let us embrace that very God, so that He may direct our mental faculties in the right direction”.

This means, “the light of the sun illumines all the three worlds namely ‘Bhu lok’, ‘Bhuvar lok’ and ‘Suvar Lok‘. I meditate upon that highly effulgent light. Let that light kindle and illumine my intellect too”.

Normally the Gayatri Mantra is chanted for four main reasons:

  • To Praise and Glorify the God
  • To Thank God
  • To Ask for Forgiveness from the God and
  • To make a Pray or Request from the God

Since our soul is the Light of Life within us, and that acts on our body via the medium of the brain, we ask God to make this contact pure and righteous. The soul is of course inherently pure, being itself Divine. The body is under the complete control of the mind.

The link is the mind, which is affected not only by the soul but also by the outside world. We ask in these four words that God help us to improve our intellect, and guide it towards what is right.

By regularly chanting the Gayatri Mantra, we can achieve better Learning Power, Increase our focus or concentration, make us more divine and spiritual, we can gain prosperity in life, a significant increase in both physical and eternal lives erase past sins, pains and depression and the life gets charged and energised since the first day itself!