Jul
19
The Gayatri Mantra …
Filed Under Meditations
Johanna Note: According to Wikipedia, the Gayatri Mantra is the most revered mantra in Hinduism.
Information shared below furnished by Rev. Marcella Jones of First Spiritualist Church, San Diego.
Rev. Jones is a Certified YM Practitioner (Yeun Method of Chinese Energetics).
“Practitioners believe to the one who chants the Gayatri Mantra regularly and with faith, the mantra is the reliever of diseases; wards off all misery; fulfills desires and is the bestower of all that is beneficial to the person who chants it with faith, love, reverence and a pure heart.”
Translation
Griffith (1896):
(a,b) “May we attain that excellent glory of Savitar the God:”
(c) “So May he stimulate our prayers.”
word-by-word explanation:
* dhimahi ‘may we attain’ (1st person plural middle optative of dhā- ‘set, bring, fix’ etc.)
* tat vareniyam bharghas ‘that excellent glory’ (accusatives of tad (pronoun), varenya- ‘desireable, excellent’ and bhargas- ‘radiance, lustre, splendour, glory’)
* savitur devasya ‘of savitar the god’ (genitives of savitar-, ‘stimulator, rouser; name of a sun-deity’ and deva- ‘god’)
* yah prachodayat ‘who may stimulate’ (nominative singular of relative pronoun yad-, causative 3rd person of pra-cud- ‘set in motion, drive on, urge, impel’)
* dhiyah nah ‘our prayers’ (accusative plural of dhi- ‘thought, meditation, devotion, prayer’ and nah enclitic personal pronoun)
“We meditate on That, Iswara’s Glory Who has created the universe, the Gross and Subtle Life’s Energies Within, and Beyond The Ultimate Reality, Who is fit to be Worshipped. The Illustrious Embodiment of Knowledge and Light. The Remover of all sins and ignorance. May He Enlighten Our Intellects.”
“The Gayatri Mantra may be considered to have 3 parts. The Mantra has all the three elements that figure in the adoration of God–Praise, Meditation and Prayer. The first nine words represent the attributes of the Divine.The Gayatri Mantra is considered to be the essence of the teachings of the Vedas–the Veda Sara.”
The Gayatri Mantra
OM BHUR BHUVAH SUVAHA
TAT SAVITURE VARENYUM
BHARGO DEVASYA DHEEMAHE
DHIYO YO NAH PRACHODAYAT
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