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Comment by maryse on February 1, 2009 at 2:44pm

Comment by Sandra Reis on February 1, 2009 at 2:05pm

WOW, THIS GROUP ARE AWESOME!!!
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL!!

Namaste

Comment by Paula on February 1, 2009 at 2:52am

Comment by Sandra Reis on January 31, 2009 at 5:40pm

Namaste dear Mani Kutty

I usually do japamala chanting Gayatri Mantra. When I finished it, I feel my mind more clear, my heart opened and my face shinning!!
Thank you so much for your coment.

Love and peace to all

Comment by Mani kutty on January 31, 2009 at 5:33pm

Sandra,
Hats off to you for the wonderful explanationon Gayatri Mantra.
Sai Baba says,"Your two eyes cannot reveal to you the magnificance and majesty of the realm of the spirit.They are focussed towards the objective world and its transient attractions.So the Gayatri Mantar has been give to you as a third eye to enable you to have that inner vision by which [you]may realize Brahman(God)"
Actualyy in our Brahmin community we are to worship Sungod thrice a day,in the morning , afternoon and in the evening and we have to recite the mantra 108 during the morning Sandya vandhanam called Prathah Sandya, 32 times during the afternoon called Madhaynam and 64 times during the evening time called Sayam Sandya.Howwever due to time constrain not that many are doing it.Now that I have timke I amplanning to restat it.

Comment by Paula on January 30, 2009 at 11:48pm

Comment by Sandra Reis on January 30, 2009 at 5:39pm

GAYATRI MANTRA

The Gayatri is the divine power that transforms the human into the Divine and blesses man with the brilliant light of the highest spiritual illumination. Whoever may be one’s favourite Deity, the regular repetition of a few malas (rosary of a hundred and eight beads) of Gayatri Japa every day will shower upon one incalculable benefits and blessings. It is universally applicable, being purely an earnest prayer for light addressed to the Almighty Supreme Spirit. The Para Brahma Gayatri Mantra is the most important of all Mantras. For every Brahmin of any creed or order of life, this has been prescribed as being the sole transcendental guiding light. The Brahmachari or celibate, the Grihastha or householder, and the Vanaprastha or one who is retired, must repeat this Mantra every day; the Sannyasin or renunciate is asked to repeat Om instead of this Mantra.

The nature of the Gayatri Mantra is such that you can repeat it while meditating on any form you like. It is generally conceived of as a female Deity by the majority of devotees. One who worships God as Mother adheres to this belief. But, in its true light, the Gayatri never speaks of a female at all.
You cannot find a single word in the entire Gayatri Mantra, which speaks of a female. The feminine form of the word “Gayatri” cannot make its Deity a female. It is only the name of its metre and not the Deity.

Some people think that the Gayatri Mantra is presided over by the sun. In fact, even this idea is to be modified a little. The sun that it speaks of is not that which shines over this earth before our physical eyes, but tat savituh or “that Sun”, the great Sun which this sun or moon does not illumine, and which is the impersonal, absolute Brahman.

Therefore, this is the greatest of all Mantras as its presiding Deity is none other than Para Brahman Himself. Hence, why hanker after other Mantras?
The Gayatri itself is the crest-jewel or the king of all Mantras. It is the most powerful of all Mantras. Na gayatryah paro mantrah - ”There is no Mantra greater than the Gayatri”.

Each word, each letter of the Gayatri bears on its head the highest Vedantic concept of the absolute, supreme Truth. Do Japa of the Gayatri—it will give you the most excellent fruit, the fruit of immortality! The Mantra is as follows:

Om bhur bhuvah svah
Tat savitur varenyam
Bhargo devasya dheemahi
Dhiyo yo nah prachodayaat.

Om: symbol of Para Brahman.
Bhuh: Bhu Loka or the physical plane.
Bhuvah: the astral plane.
Svah: the celestial plane.
Tat: That; the transcendental Paramatma; God.
Savituh: the Creator.
Varenyam: fit to be worshipped.
Bhargah: remover of sins and ignorance; glory, effulgence.
Devasya: resplendent, shining.
Dheemahi: we meditate.
Dhiyah: the intellect, understanding.
Yo: who.
Nah: our.
Prachodayaat: enlighten, guide, impel.

Meaning:
“We meditate on the glory of the Creator who has created the universe, who is fit to be worshipped, who is the embodiment of knowledge and light, who is the remover of all sins and ignorance. May He enlighten our intellect!”

Herein there are five parts: Om is the first part; Bhur bhuvah svah is the second; Tat savitur varenyam is the third; Bhargo devasya dheemahi is the fourth; and Dhiyo yo nah prachodayaat is the last.
While chanting the Mantra you should pause after every part.

Comment by Jaimal Yogis on January 24, 2009 at 7:22pm

Nice to see such a thriving yogi group. Glad I found it.

Comment by Mani kutty on January 12, 2009 at 7:50am

Sandra,
The picture on Meditation is really wonderful. I have saved is in my laptop and am using it as a screensaver.
Regards

Comment by Sandra Reis on January 8, 2009 at 8:07pm

To meditate does not mean to fight with a problem. To meditate means to observe.
Your smile proves it.
It proves that you are being gentle with yourself, that the sun of awareness is shining in you, that you have control of your situation.
You are yourself, and you have acquired some peace.

~ Thich Nhat Hahn

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