Spiritual Healing – Day 22
Ok let’s kick start this week with one of the most ‘powerful’ mantra from India, the ‘Gayatri Mantra’.
O? bh?r bhuva? sva?
tát savitúr váre?(i)ya?
bhárgo devásya dh?mahi
dhíyo yó na? pracodáy?t
literal translation of the Gayatri verse proper can be given as:
“May we attain that excellent glory of Savitar the god: So may he stimulate our prayers.”
—The Hymns of the Rigveda (1896), Ralph T. H. Griffith[12]
with this analysis of the constituent words:[13]
- dh?mahi “may we attain” (1st person plural middle optative of dh?- ‘Unify’ etc.)
- tat vare?iyam bharghas ‘”that excellent glory” (accusatives of tad (pronoun), vareniya- ‘excellent’ and bhargas- ‘radiance, splendour, glory’)
- savitur devasya “of the lord savitar ” (genitives of savitr-, ‘stimulator; name of a sun-deity’ and deva– ‘god, deity’)
- ya? pracodayat “who has the ability to encourage” (nominative singular of relative pronoun yad-, causative 3rd person of pra-cud- ‘set in motion, encourage, urge, impel’)
- dhiya? na? “our prayers” (accusative plural of dhi- ‘mind, thought, meditation’ and na? enclitic personal pronoun)
The literal translation of the Mah?vy?h?ti formula bh?r bhuva? sva? prefixed to the verse is “earth, air, heaven”.[14] These are the names of the first three of the seven vy?h?ti or higher worlds of Hindu cosmology.
It’s absolute meaning :
We meditate upon the radiant Divine Light of that adorable Sun of Spiritual Consciousness; May it awaken our intuitional consciousness.
