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Gayatri is the manifestation of Saraswati and is often associated with Savitṛ, a solar deity in the Vedas, and her consort in the Puranas is the creator god Brahma. [6] [7] [8] Gayatri is also an epithet for the various goddesses and she is also identified as "Supreme pure consciousness". [9]
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Imparting the Gayatri mantra to young Hindu men is an important part of the traditional upanayana ceremony [citation needed], which marks the beginning of study of the Vedas. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan described this as the essence of the ceremony, [21] which is sometimes called "Gayatri diksha", i.e. initiation into the Gayatri mantra. [41]
Vishvamitra is said to have written the Gayatri Mantra. It is a verse from a sukta of Rigveda (Mandala 3.62.10). It is a verse from a sukta of Rigveda (Mandala 3.62.10). Gāyatrī is the name of the Vedic meter in which the verse is composed.
The Shakta Agamas or Shakta tantras are 64 in number. [9] Krishnananda Agamavagisha has compiled 64 agamas in a single volume named Brihat Tantrasara . [ 48 ] Some of the older Tantra texts in this genre are called Yamalas , which literally denotes, states Teun Goudriaan, the "primeval blissful state of non-duality of Shiva and Shakti, the ...
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak FBA (/ ˈ s p ɪ v æ k /; [1] born 24 February 1942) is an Indian scholar, literary theorist, and feminist critic. [2] She is a University Professor at Columbia University and a founding member of the establishment's Institute for Comparative Literature and Society.
A bījamantra (Sanskrit: बीजमन्त्र, romanized: bījamantra, lit. 'seed-mantra', in modern schwa-deleted Indo-Aryan languages: beej mantra), [1] or a bījākṣara ("seed-syllable"), is a monosyllabic mantra believed to contain the essence of a given deity.
A mantra (Pali: mantra) or mantram (Devanagari: मन्त्रम्) [1] is a sacred utterance, a numinous sound, a syllable, word or phonemes, or group of words (most often in an Indo-Iranian language like Sanskrit or Avestan) believed by practitioners to have religious, magical or spiritual powers.