The Hidden Power of Gayatri Mantra

by Om Swami

“I introduced her to the joy and merit of charity. Aaj dhool di hai, kal phool bhi degi.”

Sanatana Dharma has stood on four pillars – Gau, cow; Gita, the Bhagavad Gita, which means the Song of the Lord, and is our scripture; Ganga, Mother Ganga; and Gayatri.

Happiness is a direct outcome of your gratefulness. The more grateful you are, the happier you will feel.

That’s how the mind works. If you don’t feed it garbage, it won’t feed you garbage back.

‘Ja par kripa raam ki hoi, taa par kripa kare sab koi.’ (If the Divine is in your favor, the whole world will be too.)

when your faith is strong, no adversity in life can shake you.

when we chant a mantra such as the Gayatri mantra, we are not asking any supernatural being to help us. Instead, we are invoking our own latent energy; we are invoking the power within us. Associating it with a deity of some kind is a matter of meditation; of better focus, visualization and manifestation.

This mantra means we are now meditating upon the one who alone is fit to be worshipped. May that divine radiance, that divine energy which is full of light, guide our intellects. May it put our intellects in motion, so we have a certain wealth of wisdom to put to use. This is the basis of the Gayatri mantra.

Imagine that you are recalling in your mind the mantra between drips, that each section of the mantra is falling from the crown of your head one drop at a time: Om bhur-bhuvah svah, drip, tatsavitur-varenayama, drip, bhargo devasya dhimahi, drip, dhiyo yo nah pracodayata, drip. When you are recalling the mantra this way, your mind will concentrate better and your other thoughts will not intrude. It’s a very subtle technique that I have figured out after years of practice and it has made a tremendous difference to the outcome I have gained from mantras.

You don’t chant the Gayatri mantra or any kind of mantra to have your wishes granted. You chant a mantra because you want to invoke the divinity within; to gain immense inner strength; to constantly purify yourself. With that purification and inner strength, everything would become plain sailing. Maybe you wouldn’t even need to pray.