1. What is the Gayatri Mantra? The Gayatri Mantra is the Universal Prayer enshrined in the Vedas, the most ancient Scriptures of Man. The Gayatri Mantra is a Prayer that can well be spoken with yearning by men and women of all creeds and climes in all centuries. Repetition of this ...
This Sri Gayatri is a very important and well known Gayatri mantra, chanted silently in the mind, three times a day. It translates as: “Om, Let us meditate on that worshipable effulgence of the divine sun, Savitri, Creator of the Earth, Heaven and ether, and who enthuses our meditation...
The above quote, from p. 126 of “The Theosophical Glossary,” is the only time H. P. Blavatsky ever mentions the Gayatri Mantra in her main writings. The importance of this verse or mantra to Theosophists and to all spiritual aspirants was therefore first presented and emphasised by HPB...