The Gayatri Mantra is first recorded in the Rig Veda (iii, 62, 10) which was written in Sanskrit about 2500 to 3500 years ago, and by some reports, the mantra may have been chanted for many generations before that. Gayatri Mantra is a highly revered mantra in Hinduism, second only to ...
The Gayatri mantra has 3 Sanskrit words, written from left to right. They are: “Gayā,”“trī,” and “brahmān.” Each syllable has a meaning. But together, they mean: “We meditate on that supreme light of godliness that illuminates all knowledge and all darkness.” One can recite th...
H. P. Blavatsky elaborates further: “The chanting of a Mantra is not a prayer, but rather a magical sentence in which the law of Occult causation connects itself with, and depends on, the will and acts of its singer. It is a succession of Sanskrit sounds, and when its string of ...