{"id":370,"date":"2007-06-22T22:26:14","date_gmt":"2007-06-22T11:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/2007\/06\/22\/gayatri-mantra\/"},"modified":"2007-06-22T22:26:14","modified_gmt":"2007-06-22T11:26:14","slug":"gayatri-mantra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/2007\/06\/22\/gayatri-mantra\/","title":{"rendered":"Gayatri Mantra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/gayatri2.jpg\" title=\"gayatri2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" width=\"166\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/gayatri2.jpg\" alt=\"Goddess Gayatri\" height=\"212\" style=\"width: 166px;height: 212px\" title=\"Goddess Gayatri\" \/><\/a>The Gayatri Mantra is seen by many Hindus as the foremost mantra, the way to the Divine awakening of the mind and soul. The Gayatri Mantra is seen as the way to reach the most Supreme form of existence.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Upanisads<\/em> (sacred Hindu texts) contain many references to the Gayatri Mantra, and\u00a0it is contained in all the four <em>Vedas<\/em>. The Goddess Gayatri is the Mother of all the <em>Vedas<\/em> and the consort of Brahma. She is made up of the coming together of Parvati, Laxmi and Saraswati to\u00a0become Adi Parashakti, the Mother of Gods and the Supreme God of all Gods. She is also associated with the sun and is worshipped as the Sun Goddess.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>Om bhu Om bhuvah Om Svah On mahah Om janah Om tapah Om satyam<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>Om\u00a0bhu bhuvah svarah.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>Om tat savitur\u00a0 varenyam b<\/em><em>hargo devasya dhimahi.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>Dhiyo yo nah prachodayat.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>Om apo jyoti raso mrtyam Brahma bhuvah svar Om.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It is believed that reciting the Gayatri Mantra creates the power of righteous wisdom. All problems are solved by those who have this gift. No calamity will befall them and they will not tread the wrong path.<\/p>\n<p>It is not just reciting the mantra that is important, however. Understanding and purely being the essence of the Gayatri Manta is one of the most powerful ways to attain God and is the way to union with Brahma.<\/p>\n<p>(Picture courtesy of Hindunet Inc)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gayatri Mantra is seen by many Hindus as the foremost mantra, the way to the Divine awakening of the mind and soul. The Gayatri Mantra is seen as the way to reach the most Supreme form of existence. The Upanisads (sacred Hindu texts) contain many references to the Gayatri Mantra, and\u00a0it is contained in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-26","category-meditation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4h1Q1-5Y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}