Unlimited power of sound when ordered, consecrated & repeated!

Most of us are aware of how responsive 😳we’re when our given names 🆔 are called out 🗣 as opposed to our reactions to any other 🔈sound, some of which we may even ignore despite their 📢high 📶 volume 🔊. Essentially, the association of name with form takes place with ♻️ repetition. The 🤰🏻mother 🤱 of all languages, Sanskrit goes a step further in minimising 🔽 the error involved in unifying the vibrational 💓 characteristics of a sound & the form that it refers to.

Unsullied by human intervention, the cosmic 🌌 sounds 🌬of creation, referred to as the Vedic lingo, is the ultimate in the sense that it involves 3️⃣ levels of intonations embellishing the basic sounds of Sanskrit, Sāma-veda being the pinnacle 🏔. Yes, most people aren’t aware of this subtle yet significant distinction between the Vedic lingo & Sanskrit as we know it today.

In fact, the swarās 🎼 are so important ✳️ that the Vedas can sometimes even do without the words, but never without the swarās 🎵. The Kānchi paramāchāryā used to demonstrate this beautifully with the substitution of alternate words into any given set of Vedic 🎶 swarās, without altering the purport of the chant 🗣 even a wee bit.

These intonations 🎼 are the ones which take us beyond mere intellectual meanings to intelligent & intuitive realisation. While the intellect 🧠 is in the realm of the individual, the intelligence & intuition are in the realm of the universal 🌌. In other words, while each of us have a distinctly separate intellect 🧠, there’s one ☝️ & only one ☝️ intelligence that we all tap🚰 into, accessing finite bits & bytes of the ♾ source, leaving it eternally omniscient.

Hence, these Vedic sounds are not merely heard 👂 but rather seen with the metaphorical third eye 👁 of intuition, in the deepest states of 🧘‍♀️ meditation 🧘🏽‍♂️, accessing the universal & equanimous intelligence <samā-dhī>. One such ancient seer of Rig-Vedic times was the king 🤴 turned Maha-rshi Visvāmitrā, who witnessed what’s now known as the third mandalā of this oldest 📖 scripture of the world 🌏 or rather the time-immemorial 🗣 oral 🌬tradition of humanity.

A very large number of the Rig-vedic mantras are set to the metre of Gāyatrī & the Gāyatrī mantrā itself is the most significant amongst them, occurring at 3.62.10. While a large number of books 📚 & discourses 🗣expound the meaning of the Gāyatrī mantrā, it’s most effectively an unfailing & secular tool to 🏎 accelerate 🦍 human 🧘‍♀️ evolution. Propulsion 🚀 here’s through the 7️⃣ planes of existence <lokās> or rather perception <lochanās> from the grossest material world <bhū> seen 👀 at the mūlādhāra chakrā to the subtlest real world <satyam> recognised at & above the sahasrāra chakrā. Hence, these planes aren’t geographical 🗺but 🦍 anthropomorphic 🧘‍♀️🧘🏽‍♂️. As a corollary, the propulsion 🚀 is not from one place or location to another but from one state of evolution or perception to another:

In addition, there are 7️⃣ inferior planes of 🐷 animalistic 🐗existence/perception below the mūlādhāra chakrā which unfortunately many hyper-sensual & accidentally living 🦍‘people’ 🦧 are still traversing in their evolution, lacking in awareness/perception:

-1. a-tala

-2. vi-tala

-3. su-tala

-4. rasā-tala

-5. talā-tala

-6. mahā-tala

-7. pā-tāla

Assuming a prerequisite of a 🧘‍♀️ sādhak 🧘🏽‍♂️ having already transcended the 7️⃣ lower compulsive chakrās, the Gāyatrī mantrā begins by naming only the 7️⃣ higher states of perception in an ascending order. This is followed by a metre <chandas>, also called Gāyatrī, associated with a 5️⃣-faced divine embodiment, would you believe it, also called Gāyatrī, going beyond all the 3️⃣ gunās, represented by Kālī <tamas>, Lakshmi <rajas> & Saraswati <sattva>. So Gāyatrī transcends even the lofty morals & ethics, which are mortal & epic too‼️Such metre & mantrā involve 3️⃣ lines (tri-kālās or triple periods [dawn 🌄, noon 🕛 & dusk 🌅 or more appropriately past, present & future!] to realise <vid-mahe>, meditate  <dhī-mahi> & propel <pracodayāt>) of 8️⃣ syllables each, totalling 2️⃣4️⃣ syllables, corresponding to the 24 hours in a day, which have been expanded into 24,000 stanzas of the historical epic Rām-āyana by the world’s first poet, Vālmiki, most relevant in the context of tomorrow’s bhoomi poojan to restore the spirit of India to Bharat 🇮🇳 after half a millennium of struggle, comparable only to that of Ram’s own calamitous 🌊 yet equipoised life.

Let’s engage in the longer version of the Gāyatrī mantrā for prānāyama from Taittiriya-aranyaka 10.35.1 of Krsna Yajur Veda, also known as Mahā-nār-āyana-upanishad as explained in the very heart of the chanter <Gāyatrī Hridayam>, a conversation between the great sacrificial seer within us <Yajña-valkya Maha-Rshi> & our own creativity <Brahma>. Not just today, but throughout life, let’s continually be conscious of our life-breath <prānā> & its synchrony or rather symphony with the self-safeguarding Gāyatrī mantrā, with long & deep alternate nostril👃 breathing <anulōma-vilōma prānā-yama>, interspersed withretention <kumbhaka> & vacuum <shunyaka, focusing on the mulādhāra chakrā, while reciting Ganesha Gāyatri>, leading to a realisation of our oneness with the whole. 

Do click on the two links below to welcome 🙏 Gāyatrī & seat 💺 her closer to you than to yourself!!! Also listen to these chants as well as a ghanapatah recitation of Gāyatrī mantrā in the author’s voice using the player at the beginning of this article.