Sriman Sudarshn has beautifully elaborated the importance and potency of SavitA gAyatri mantra. We hear an episode about Sage Bharadwaja in the Yajur BrAhmaNa. The sage was asking for another 100 yeras, after having lived 300 years already. Indra asks him what he would do with another 100 years? Bharadwaja answers that he wants to acquire more knowledge (Vedas). Indra creates three vast mounds, each standing for a Veda and asks the sage to behold them. Then he picks a fist full of mud from each mound and says that is the amount of knowledge which the sage has acuired in 300 years. This is not to put down the ability of the Sage, but simply to state the immensity of knowledge (anantA vai vEdAh). Indra directs him to turn to the savitA gAyatri mantra. Only thing that is glorified even more than the savitA gAyatrI mantra is a portion of the gAyatrI, which is simply AUM or OM. I would add, OM is the simplest and the greatest mantra for one and all. In fact Joseph Campbell in his Power of Myth with Bill moyers (Vol. 6) brings out a demonstration of chanting OM by the Tibetian monks and explains OM most beautifully, and advices Bill Moyer to just say OM. dasan, K. Sreekrishna Tatachar ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/VkWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SriRangaSri/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: SriRangaSri-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Home Page
http://www.ibiblio.org/sripedia |
srirangasri-subscribe@yahoogroups.com To subscribe to the list |