The Masters of Wisdom - Sublime Beings - 53 : The Gayatri - 1

🌹 The Masters of Wisdom - Sublime Beings - 53 🌹

🌴 The Gayatri - 1 🌴

✍️ Master E. Krishnamacharya

📚. Prasad Bharadwaj

🌻. Invocation of Light  🌻

Before creation began, there was the space unbound. We call the content of space the eternal background Light; the many forms of light emerge from it. 

This source of all light is also called the universal awareness, the Light of Truth. Since the dawn of time, it is also worshipped as the Divine Virgin and the Mother of the World. 

In thousands of ways the ancient seers have invoked the Light and meditated on it. They have realised that all of us are a spark of that light which we perceive as “I AM”. 

It radiates into our individual consciousness and gets coloured individually. It expresses through our many thoughts and ideas and further descends into the activity of the senses and the body.

The sound formula for invoking the Light was subsumed to a 24-syllabed mantra by the seer Vishvamitra. He called it the Gayatri mantra; it is said to be the greatest mantra after the OM. 

This sound formula invokes the light of the cosmic sun, the central sun and the physical sun of our system that it may strengthen our will and enlighten us.

Vishvamitra called the mantra, the deity and the meter of 24 syllables with the same name, Gayatri. He discovered the Gayatri mantra at the beginning of an earlier Aquarian age. 

In every Aquarian age there is a rapid expansion of consciousness, and thus it is no coincidence that as we are entering again into an Aquarian age this mantra has become global through the work of spiritual Hierarchy. 

By the way, Vishvamitra is not the name of this great seer but a title which was conferred upon him and which means “friend of the universe”. The name was used for many of his descendants.

The Gayatri mantra is sung individually for self-purification and also in groups for the protection of the world. 

The Gayatri should be learned with the instruction of an experienced teacher, because its light is strong and a wrong intonation can mislead. There are many distortions concerning intonation, symbolism and meaning. 

The sounds should be uttered in a musical and rhythmic way, aloud and not murmured. For a better effect of the mantra the sound also should not be prolonged.

In India it was a customary practice to sing Gayatri alone and silently inside. But Master EK emphasized, “I tell you to sing the Gayatri aloud, for this was the ancient tradition”, and also that it should be sung in groups. At first the society could not accept it, but gradually this is done throughout India.

The sound formula of Gayatri is in Sanskrit but it is not Indian, just as light is not Indian. The essence of Gayatri relates to the entire universe. 

All those who feel inclined to sing the Gayatri can do so; it shouldn’t be denied to anyone.

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Sources:  Master K.P. Kumar: Mantrams / Master EK / notes from seminars. E. Krishnamacharya: Master CVV. 

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