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The Gayatri mantra is cited widely in Hindu texts, such as the mantra listings of the Śrauta liturgy, [note 2] [note 3] and cited several times in the Brahmanams and the Srauta-sutras. [ note 4 ] [ note 5 ] It is also cited in a number of grhyasutras, mostly in connection with the upanayana ceremony [ 36 ] in which it has a significant role ...
Just before the japa, the Gāyatrī mantrārtha śloka that conveys the meaning of the Gāyatrī mantra is recited. The Gāyatrī mantra is then chanted either 1008, [note 12] 108, [note 13] 54, [note 14] 28, [note 15] or at least 10 [note 16] times, using either a japamāla (prayer beads) or a karamāla (hand-counting).
A 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 [6] From the second season on, the North American broadcasts used the same Gayatri Mantra title theme as the rest of the world.
Gayatri (Sanskrit: गायत्री, IAST: Gāyatrī) is the personified form of the Gayatri Mantra, a popular hymn from Vedic texts. [5] She is also known as Savitri , and holds the title of Vedamata ('mother of the Vedas').
The merit attained by chanting it is described to be the equivalent of reciting the Itihasas, the Puranas, and all the mantras a hundred thousand times. It is also stated to be the equivalent of reciting the Gayatri mantra a hundred thousand times, and the syllable 'Om' ten thousand times. It is stated to be powerful enough to purify ten of one ...
Mantra japa is a practice of repetitively uttering the same mantra [49] for an auspicious number of times, the most popular being 108, and sometimes just 5, 10, 28 or 1008. [ 2 ] [ 50 ] Japa is found in personal prayer or meditative efforts of some Hindus, as well during formal puja (group prayers).
Om Namo Bhagavate Vāsudevaya in Devanagari. Om Namo Bhagavate Vāsudevāya (Sanskrit: ॐ नमो भगवते वासुदेवाय, lit. 'I bow to God Vāsudeva'; listen ⓘ) is one of the most popular mantras in Hinduism and, according to the Bhagavata tradition, the most important mantra in Vaishnavism. [1]
Man has many desires of food and drink and song and music and friends and objects, and fulfillment of those desires make him happy states the Chandogya Upanishad in sections 8.2 and 8.3; but those desires are fleeting, and so is the happiness that their fulfillment provides because both are superficial and veiled in untruth. [161]