Gayatri Mantra

ॐ भूर्भुवः स्वः तत्सवितुर्वरेण्यं भर्गो देवस्य धीमहि धियो यो नः प्रचोदयात् ॥

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Bhuh Bhuvah Svah

Tat Savitur Varenyam

Bhargo Devasya Dheemahi

Dhiyo Yo nah Prachodayat

The Rig Veda (III LXII 10)
“May we attain that excellent glory of Savitar*
So May he stimulate our prayers.”

* Solar deity, off-spring of the Vedic primeval mother goddess Aditi**

** Vedic goddess, the personification of the sprawling infinite and vast cosmos. Goddess of motherhood, unconsciousness, the past, the future and fertility. Mother of the celestial deities. 
Rig Veda, Opening Verse

One Reply to “Gayatri Mantra”

  1. “To the ‘Buddhist’ śakti (divine power, of the creative female aspect of the highest God (Śiva) or his emanations) is māyā, the vary power that creates illusion, from which only prajñā can liberate. It is therefore not the aim to acquire power, or to join to the powers of the universe, either to become their instrument or their master, but to free oneself from these powers, which for aeons have kept one prisoner of samsāra.”
    -Foundations of Tibetan Mysticism by A. Govinda (III.3)

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