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The great Gayatri mantra, explanation

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The great Gayatri mantra, explanation

(from my archives)

Gayatri mantra has been bestowed the greatest importance in Vedic
dharma.This mantra has also been termed as Savitri and Ved-Mata, the
mother of the Vedas. The literal meaning of the mantra is:

OM Bhurbhuvah Swah,Tatsaviturvarenyam Bhargo Devasya Dheemahi,
DhiyoYo Nah Prachodyat. (Yajurveda: 36-3).

O God! You are Omnipresent, Omnipotent and Almighty.
You are all Light. You are all Knowledge and Bliss.
You are Destroyer of fear, You are Creator of this Universe,
You are the Greatest of all. We bow and meditate upon Your light.
You guide our intellect in the right direction.


The mantra, however, has a great scientific import too, which somehow
got lost in the literary tradition.The modern astrophysics and
astronomy tell us that our Galaxy called MilkyWay or Akash-Ganga
contains approximately 100,000 million of stars. Each star is like
our sun having its own planet system. We know that the moon moves
round the earth and the earth moves round the sun along with the
moon. All planets round the sun.Each of the above bodies revolves
round at its own axis as well. Our sun along with its family takes
one round of the galactic centre in 22.5 crore years. All galaxies
including ours are moving away at a terrific velocity of 20,000 miles
per second. And now the alternative scientific meaning of the mantra
step by step

(A) Om bhur bhuvah swah:

Bhur the earth, bhuvah the planets (solar family), swah the Galaxy.
We observe that when an ordinary fan with a speed of 900 RPM
(rotationsPer minute) moves, it makes noise. Then, one can imagine,
what great noise would be created when the galaxies move with a speed
of 20,000 miles per second.This is what this portion of the mantra
explains that the sound produced due to the fast-moving earth,
planets and galaxies is Om. The sound was heard during meditation by
Rishi Vishvamitra, who mentioned it to other colleagues. All of them,
then unanimously decided to call this sound Om the name of God,
because this sound is available in all the three periods of time,
hence it is set (permanent). Therefore, it was the first ever
revolutionary idea to identify formless God with a specific title
(form) called upadhi. Until that time, everybody recognized God as
formless and nobody was prepared to accept this new idea. In the Gita
also, it is said, "Omiti ekaksharam brahma", meaning that the name of
the Supreme is Om, which contains only one syllable (8/12). This
sound Om heard during samadhi was called by all the seers nada-brahma
a very great noise), but not a noise that is normally beyond a
specific amplitude and limits of decibels suited to human hearing.
Hence the rishis called this sound Udgith musical sound of the above,
i.e., heaven.They also noticed that the infinite mass of galaxies
moving with a velocity of 20,000 miles/second was generating a
kinetic energy = 1/2 MV2 and this was balancing the total energy consumption of the cosmos. Hence they named it Pranavah, which means the body (vapu) or store
house of energy (prana).


(B) Tat savitur varenyam:

Tat (God), savitur the sun (star), varenyam worthy of bowing or
respect. Once the form of a person along with the name is known to
us, we may locate the specific person. Hence the two titles (upadhi)
provide the solid ground to identify the formless God, Vishvamitra
suggested. He told us that we could know (realize) the unknowable
formless God through the known factors, viz., sound Om and light of
suns (stars). A mathematician can solve an equation x2+y2=4; if x=2;
then y can be known and so on. An engineer can measure the width of a
river even by standing at the river bank just by drawing a triangle.
So was the scientific method suggested by Vishvamitra in the mantra
in the next portion as under:-


(C) Bhargo devasya dheemahi:

Bhargo the light, devasya of the deity, dheemahi we should meditate.
The rishi instructs us to meditate upon the available form (light of
suns) to discover the formless Creator (God). Also he wants us to do
japa of the word Om (this is understood in the Mantra). This is how
the sage wants us to proceed, but there is a great problem to realise it, as the
human mind is so shaky and restless that without the grace of the
Supreme (Brahma) it cannot be controlled. Hence Vishvamitra suggests
the way to pray Him as under:


(D) Dhiyo yo nah prachodayat:

Dhiyo (intellect), yo (he), nah (we all), prachodayat (guide to right
Direction). O God! Deploy our intellect on the right path.

Full scientific interpretation of the Mantra:


The earth (bhur), the planets (bhuvah), and the galaxies(swah) are
moving at a very great velocity, the sound produced is Om, (the name
of formless God.) That God (tat), who manifests Himself in the form
of light of suns (savitur) is worthy of bowing/respect(varenyam). We
all, therefore, should meditate (dheemahi) upon the light (bhargo) of
that deity (devasya) and also do chanting of Om. May He (yo) guide in
right direction (prachodayat) our (nah) intellect (dhiyo). So we
notice that the important points hinted in the mantra are:-


1) The total kinetic energy generated by the movement galaxies acts
as an umbrella and balances the total energy consumption of the
cosmos. Hence it was named as the Pranavah (body of energy).

2) Realising the great importance of the syllable OM, the other later
date religions adopted this word with a slight change in accent,
viz., amen and Ameen.

3) The God could be realised through the saguna (gross), upasana
(method), i.e.,

a) by chanting the name of the supreme as OM and
b) by meditating upon the light emitted by stars (suns).

--- In vedic_research_institute@yahoogroups.com, <ashok.kumawat@w...>
wrote:

OM Bhurbhuvah Swah,Tatsaviturvarenyam Bhargo Devasya Dheemahi,
DhiyoYo Nah Prachodyat. (Yajurveda: 36-3).

This mantra of the Veda is called "The Gayatri Mantra", in which the devotee is praying God for the sharp discriminative intellect (Sad-Budhi). It is a prayer for wisdom, by which one can acquire knowledge, from which everything is achieved in the life. The Gayatri Mantra is complete mantra of Glorification, Prayer & Communion of God.


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