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THE GAYATRI HYMN



God is the Life of life, the Light of the world, the Eternal Origin and Support of the creative cycle of the universe. The Sun is the metaphor of Divinity, being the generative support of life on Earth.

Vedas are the poetry of God uttered in meta language, which is the sound correspondence of the Omniscience and infinite creative joy of Divinity, the power of Infinity, and the glory of Immortality. In the Vedas, Savita is a symbol of the Divine. On the plane of Eternity, Savita means God; on the physical plane, it means the sun; on the psychic plane it means intelligence; on the biological plane, it means vitality. The Gayatri Hymn (Yajurveda, 36.3) is the essence of the Vedas.

Gayatri indeed is a quintessential reflection of the blazing Omniscience of Divinity captured in 24 syllables. It is a homage to the Sun the Sublime; a symbol of the radiance of the Divine vibrating through the earth, heaven, and the intervening spaces, inspiring life with energy, intelligence and blessed joy. The splendor of Lord Savita, the creator Sun, is like the galactic explosion of a thousand suns bursting forth on the horizon in the first morning of the Universe - the same as Lord Krishna revealed to Arjuna in the Bhagvad Gita. 

The Hymn moves us to superconscious elevation of the soul with the impact of its beauty, wonder and bliss. It consecrates us into a mood of prayer to participate in the creative ephiphany of the Universal Mother. It opens the floodgates of light and beatitude of peace and immortality to a world otherwise shaken by mortality and pain.
 

Dr. Tulsi Ram Sharma
Toronto, Ontario
October 29, 1998