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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 [ 37 ] in which it has a significant role ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... [107] [108] Books 2 through 7 ... The verse 3.62.10 has great importance in Hinduism as the Gayatri Mantra.
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').
He who learns the vidya (knowledge) and the mantras in the scripture is sanctified and earns the merit of reciting the Gayatri Mantra, the maha-rudra hymns and Om mantra numerous times, and is cleansed of all sin. [18] Meditating on the mantra taught, asserts the text, leads the yogi to transmute, fuse with the supreme and realize god within ...
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).
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 ...
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).
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.