Why I Love the Gayatri Mantra
One of the simplest ways you can lift your personal vibration for inner peace, happiness and enlightenment is by listening to or chanting the Gayatri mantra.
No matter what your spiritual tradition, when you put yourself in contact with such high vibration energy, you heal yourself at very deep levels.
You can even feel your soul rejoicing.
All illness — no matter whether you have a cold, feel depressed or are suffering from cancer — is slowed down vibration.
All healing — no matter what the modality — occurs when you shift from slowed down to speeded up vibration.
This is the simplest way to understand what is healing.
When you want to keep yourself as healthy as possible, it’s important to include daily personal practices that keep your own vibration as uplifted as possible.
Every morning when I wake up, I begin to meditate.
After I meditate, I listen to the Gayatri mantra, one of the oldest, most sacred mantras, and then repeat or listen to a recorded version of the Lord’s prayer.
My favorite versions of the Gayatri mantra include one sung by Deva Premal you can listen to for FREE here on Youtube or a short, slightly over six-minute version by Shiva Datta Music LLC that you can download for 99 cents on Amazon that I listen to on the Insight Timer FREE meditation app.
The Gayatri mantra is believed to be between 2,500 or 3,500 years old.
It was written in the Vedic language in the Rigveda, an ancient Indian collection of Vedic sanskrit hymns.
Like the Lord’s prayer, the Gayatri mantra is a specific recitation of words:
Om
Bhur bhuvah svah
Tat savitur varenyam
Bhargo devasya dhimahi
Dhiyo yo nah pracodayat
There are multiple translations of these words. My favorite and simplest understanding is the translation by Swami Vivekananda:
“We meditate on the glory of that Being who has produced this universe; may He enlighten our minds.”
Legend has it that sage Vishwamitra was given the Gayatri mantra by the Supreme Being as a reward for his many years of deep penance and meditation.
By chanting of listening to the Gayatri mantra, just like speaking or listening to the Lord’s prayer, you attune your mind, body and soul to a deep, reverent connection to God.
I first learned the Gayatri mantra during my 20 years teaching and studying yoga.
As a medical intuitive healer, I include meditation, prayer, chanting and the practice of yoga as part of my personal self care.
In so doing I keep my own energy clear and connected to the divine.
It is my belief that when we stay open and pray with all sincerity to know and follow God’s will that we experience the blessing of divine direction in our lives.
Around the world, many people are exposed to extreme challenges — war, starvation, oppressive governments and the agony of physical pain.
Often we are not immediately able to shift our external circumstances but we can change our internal state by aligning ourselves at the deepest levels with the most loving vibrations and in so doing begin to free our souls.
What is healing?
Healing happens when we listen and pray sacred chants and mantras like the Gayatri mantra and Lord’s prayer.
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