”Om Bhur Bhuva Swaha,
Tat Savitur Varenyam,
Bhargo Devasya Dhimahi,
Dhiyo Yonah Prachodayat.”
Mantra Translation
”O Lord, Thou are the protector of life and of breath,
Dispeller of miseries and bestower of happiness.
Thou are the creator and the most acceptable intelligence,
Possessing eternal qualities. May Thine qualities and Thy inspiration pass to us.”
And see longer article at: GAYATRI MANTRA
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”Om Bhur Bhuva Swaha,
Tat Savitur Varenyam,
Bhargo Devasya Dhimahi,
Dhiyo Yonah Prachodayat.”
Mantra Translation
”O Lord, Thou are the protector of life and of breath,
Dispeller of miseries and bestower of happiness.
Thou are the creator and the most acceptable intelligence,
Possessing eternal qualities. May Thine qualities and Thy inspiration pass to us.”
ALSO READ: Kamdev Mantra – Om Kamadevaya Vidmahe
The syllables of this Sanskrit mantra are said to positively affect all the energy centers (chakras) in the human body – thus, proper enunciation and pronunciation are very important.*
Om Bhur Bhuva Swaha – Gayatri mantra occupies a unique place in Hindu tradition, due to the fact that it has both the power of Prarthana (prayer) and of a mantra.
This Sanskrit mantra is a highly revered mantra in Hinduism, 2nd only to the mantra Om.
It consists of the prefix ”om bhur bhuva swaha,” an ancient formula commonly appearing in the Yajurveda, and verse 3.62.10 of the Rig Veda.
Gayatri mantra was written in Sanskrit about 2,500 to 3,500 years ago, and this powerful mantra may have been recited by sages for many centuries before that.
Gayatri is the name of the 24-syllable meter (excluding the prefix) of this verse, and also the name of the Hindu Goddess is considered the personification of the mantra. The word itself explains the principal reason for the existence of this Sanskrit mantra.
Therefore, this mantra has its origin in the Sanskrit phrase ”Gayantam Triyate iti,” and actually refers to that mantra that rescues the practitioner from all adverse situations that may lead to mortality and other types of sufferings.
More importantly, this mantra is chanted by a spiritual devotee to remember the higher purpose of life, and it can also be a prayer to the Supreme God to lift our consciousness upwards.
The mantra is also unique in that it embodies the three concepts:
Furthermore, for many Hindu followers, Gayatri is seen as a Divine awakening of the individual soul and the individual mind, Atman, and within it, a simple method to Union with the collective consciousness – Brahman.
Understanding (not only as a concept but in practice) and simply loving the essence of this mantra is believed by many to be one of the fastest ways to touch and experience God.
Swami Sivananda said about the Gayatri mantra:
“Of all the Sanskrit mantras, the supreme and the most potent power of powers is the great, glorious Gayatri Mantra. The mantra is the support of every seeker after Truth who believes in its efficacy, glory, and power, be he of any caste, clime, creed, or sect. It is only one’s faith and purity of heart that really count.”
Swami Shivananda also said about this mantra:
”Indeed, this mantra is a veritable fortress that guards, defends and protects its votary, an impregnable spiritual armor, which transforms him into the divine, and blesses him with the brilliant light of the highest spiritual illumination … This single Hindu mantra chanted sincerely and with a clear conscience and pure intentions, brings the supreme good.”
More Links
Reference to Kamdev Mantra at:
https://www.awakeningstate.com/spiritual-awakening/kamdev-vashikaran-mantra/
A great video! Learn how Jewish composers, lyricists and musicians brought us the songs the whole world sings today and enjoy some great sound clips!
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Guxqt8hLY0vlms0z2VkdXF3pEF7GdU9X/view
Todah Rabah, and a shenynem dank to a lovely friend for sending this wonderful link!
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract.
The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.
It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
—Abraham Lincoln November 19, 1863
For a wonderful analysis of Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poem Ulysses, and how it was mis-applied by a former Illinois governor, see this article in the website of the Poetry Foundation.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/69193/to-strive-to-seek-to-find-and-not-to-yield
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