Thread by @shaleen_sharma

1-Why is #Gayatri known as the Queen of #Mantras in #Sanatana?

The #Gayatri #Mantra is the most revered mantra in the #Vedic lore. (1/27)

#enlightenment

#प्रबोधन

2-It is an invocation as well as a prayer addressed to the Supreme #Creator of the #Universe

..and of the three worlds..

..the terrestrial, the celestial, and the one connecting these two. (2/27)

#संस्कृतिबोध

#वैदिकआचार

3-The literal meaning of the mantra is as follows -

We meditate on the glory of that #Ishwara—

..the Supreme Lord of the universe

..Who has created this universe

..Who is accomplished to be revered

Who is the embodiment of true knowledge and light (3/27)

4-..Who is the dispeller of all sorts of sins

..Who can destroy and dissolve our ignorance.

May He #Enlighten our intellect (4/27)

#सनातनशुद्धरूपसेविज्ञान

5-When this mantra is correctly recited

..It produces a large number of tarangas or alpha waves

..1,10,000 alpha sound waves per second in our mind

..that resonate in the region of the topmost cosmic energy centre called the #Sahastradhara chakra or the crown chakra (5/27)

6-When the mantra is mentally recited without uttering its words aloud,

..its frequency is enhanced manifold

..and its potency increases tremendously

..which greatly affects the chanter (6/27)

#Sanatanaknowseverything

7-It is believed that a person who chants the Gayatri Mantra 3,000 times each day

..at a particular place

..sitting on the same seat at the same time

with the same mala or rosary

..with a focused mind, for a period of forty days

..is freed from his sins (7/27)

8-The greatness of the mantra

..can be further gauged by the fact that

..not only the chanter but also its listener is divinely blessed.

A man can repeat or chant the Gayatri Mantra mentally in any or all states while sitting, walking or even lying down (8/27)

9-Traditional Brahmins say that the mantra is to be recited thrice

..at sunrise, at solar noon and at dusk. (9/27)

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10-Dr Howard Steingeril, an American scientist

..who collected mantras, hymns and invocations from all religions of the world

..and tested their potency in his physiology laboratory has proclaimed the efficacy of Gayatri Mantra (10/27)

#मंत्रशक्ति

11-He is of the view that the Gayatri Mantrais the most powerful prayer #Hymn in the world.

The combination of sound and the variation in the sound waves in Gayatri Mantra's particular frequency

..is capable of developing specific spiritual potentialities. (11/27)

12-The Hamburg University also initiated the research into the efficacy of the Gayatri Mantra

..both on the mental and physical planes. (12/27)

13-The Gayatri Mantra is now broadcast daily for fifteen minutes from 7 p.m. onwards

..over Radio Paramaribo, Surinam, South America, for the past several years. (13/27)

14-The Gayatri Mantra has no author in the conventional sense.

However, since it was revealed to #BrahmaRishi #Vishwamitra

..he is the #MantraDrashta or the one who first conceives or divinely receives a mantra. (14/27)

15-Gayatri, in fact, is the name of the meter in which the mantra is composed.

It has three padas or lines of eight syllables each

..totalling to twenty-four syllables. (15/27)

16-According to D text prescribed in the Rig Veda Samhita (3:62:10)

..“the Gayatri Mantra has one syllable short

..the first pada has seven syllables instead of eight.

..This shortage is compensated through an amended pronunciation of the word varenyam as vareniyam. (16/27)

17-There is yet another distinctive tenet about the Gayatri Mantra,

..that there are five pauses that one has to strictly observe while reciting it to receive the best from the mantra. (17/27)

18-Every mantra has a presiding deity.

In the case of the Gayatri Mantra, it is the Sun god, Surya, also known as Savita. (18/27)

19-#Surya is associated with Lord #Vishnu,

..therefore, he who meditates on the #Gayatri Mantra meditates on Lord #Vishnu. (19/27)

20-During the Puranic age

..the Gayatri Mantra was typically portrayed as a goddess seated on a red lotus flower,

..having a thousand petals on her five heads of Mukta, Vidruma, Hema, Neda and Dhevala goddesses with their ten eyes looking into the eight directions (20/27)

21-She holds in her ten arms all the weapons of #Shiva, #Vishnu and #Brahma.

Goddess Gayatri is also considered as an embodiment of goddesses #Saraswati, #Lakshmi and #Parvati. (21/27)

22-It is said that the #Gayatri Mantra brings the same benefits as the recitation of all the #Vedas put together

..with their angas—the limbs of the Vedas as auxiliary disciples associated with the study and understanding the Vedas (22/27)

#enlightenment

#प्रबोधन

23-These #angas are six in number -shiksha, vyakarana, nirukta, chhanda, kalpa and jyoti. (23/27)

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#वैदिकआचार

24-A regular recitation of the Gayatri mantra

..destroys all sins, bestows splendid health, wealth, beauty, vigour, physical strength, vitality and a divine aura

..on and around the face of its chanter. (24/27)

#सनातनशुद्धरूपसेविज्ञान

25-It also liberates one from the cycle of #Birth and Death, and grants salvation. (25/27)

#Sanatanaknowseverything

26-It is believed that the Gayatri Mantra is the #Mother of all the #Vedas.

#Krishna in the #Gita says, exactly this- “Amongst the mantras, I am Gayatri.”

The Gayatri is #Brahma, the Gayatri is #Vishnu, the #Gayatri is #Shiva

..the Gayatri is all the #Vedas (26/27)

27-For a Brahmin,

..in fact for any #Sanatani/ #Hindu

..the Gayatri is thus the crown #Hymn of the #Vedic #Tradition.

Gayatri is not a mere bunch of words and letters

..but an energy capsule filled up with sound waves that created the #Cosmos! (27/27)

28-It is not a string of metered words alone…

The #Mantra belongs to the very science of #Acoustics

.. that has deep, #Spiritual, #Psychological and prosperity inducing results.

Glory be to The #Gayatri! (28/28)