The Masters of Wisdom - Sublime Beings - 54 : The Gayatri - 2

🌹 The Masters of Wisdom - Sublime Beings - 54 🌹

🌴 The Gayatri - 2 🌴

✍️ Master E. Krishnamacharya

📚. Prasad Bharadwaj

🌻 The Sound Formula 🌻

The Gayatri consists of four verses; the last three verses form the main mantra:  OM BHUR BHUVA SUVAHA / OM TAT SAVITUR VARENYAM / BHARGO DEVASYA DHIMAHI / DHIYO YONAH PRACHODAYAT. Its meaning is, “We meditate upon the cosmic Lord of Light so that the light of the soul may embrace us and alert our wills.”

Each of the three verses has eight syllables (in Sanskrit); in total they are 24 syllables. The first line is not part of the mantra itself. 

“OM BHUR BHUVA SUVAHA“ speaks of the manifestation of “SAVITUR“, the light beyond our sensory, mental and buddhic awareness. Bhur is the physical plane, Bhuvaha the vital plane and Suvaha the mental plane. 

Then we say, “Tat Savitur Varenyam“, to reach the buddhic plane. It means, “May the Light of the central sun (coming through our sun) embrace us.” 

Bhargo Devasya Dhimahi means, „We meditate on the cosmic sun“, the Lord of the Cosmic Will. And with “Dhiyo Yonah Prachodayat” we ask the divine Will to descend so that it may work in us and awaken our will.

Uttering the mantra in all three pitches cleanses the three vehicles and restores the balance between the solar plexus and the heart centre. 

The hours of dawn and dusk are particularly auspicious for the utterance of this mantra. The light should be invoked with a pure mind and after also having cleansed the body.

We should sing the mantra consciously, so that by aligning our mind our will can be stimulated through the Divine. It is the same thought like in the Great Invocation: “From the centre where the Will of God is known, let purpose guide the little wills of men”. 

We should pay attention to utter the Gayatri consciously so that our mind doesn’t just pass it on to our tongue and throat; for mechanical singing runs like a cassette recorder and the effect doesn’t occur.

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

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