The Masters of Wisdom - Sublime Beings - 55 : The Gayatri - 3

🌹 The Masters of Wisdom - Sublime Beings - 55 🌹

🌴 The Gayatri - 3 🌴

✍️ Master E. Krishnamacharya

📚. Prasad Bharadwaj

🌻 Visualisation and Symbolism 🌻

While uttering Gayatri we can visualise how a brilliant white lotus opens in our brow centre. A sunray touches the petals and unfolds them. Or we can imagine that we are in a shower of light and the light full-fills us. Or that we build a luminous bridge from the base centre to the pituitary in three steps and then the higher bridge is being built between the pineal gland and the pituitary. Thus, we can see the centre of the sun in the heart; the central sun, Savitru, has its replica in the higher Ajna-centre and the cosmic centre exists in the Sahasrara. We can consciously link all higher centres and visualise how the light fulfils us and flows into the surroundings. It is good to meditate the light of Gayatri at the Ajna centre, so that there might be a reflection of the higher in the lower. This does not happen when the awareness is in the throat or the heart centre.

When we sing the Gayatri we also work continuously with an exhalation in 8 syllables. This application of the metrical key unconsciously renders the respiration uniform. During the interlude between inhalation and exhalation the Will descends into us.

The number of the Gayatri is 24. It is also the number of the cube, a complete form. A cube has six sides; each side is a square and has 4 right angles. Thus, there are a total of 24 right angles which represent the 24 syllables of the Gayatri. They correspond to the 24 hours of the day, the 12 full moons and 12 new moons or the 6 pairs of months of a solar year.

The Vedas speak of the 6 faces of Gayatri, five are visible and one is invisible. It is the face on the backside called Chaya, shadow, representing the background which is not perceptible. From out of the darkness of the absolute Light, the soli-lunar principles of the male-female Divine spring forth. The face of the solar light is like a diamond ray, the lunar light is described as pearl colour. In between the two are the three faces of the primary colours of red, blue and golden yellow. They further reflect the other colours as combinations.

In Sanskrit, the symbol is called Yantra, the sound formula Mantra. The process of applying the sound together with the symbol is called Tantra. The Tantra of Gayatri helps realise the Light.

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

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