Gayatri Mantra of Sri Aurobindo
तत्सवितुर्वरं रूपं ज्योतिः परस्य धीमहि |
यन्नः सत्येन दीपयेत् ||
Om Tat Savitur Varam Rūpam Jyotiḥ Parasya Dhīmahi
Yannaḥ Satyena Dīpayet
Tat = That
Savitur = Sun-god who is the Creator
Varam = most auspicious
Rūpam = form
Jyotiḥ = Light
Parasya = of the Supreme (since para = Transcendental)
Dhīmahi = meditate on (since Dhi = Intellect)
Yannaḥ = by which
Satyena = Truth
Dīpayet = shall illumine (dipa = light)
Let us meditate on the most auspicious form of Savitri, on the Light of the Supreme which shall illumine us with the Truth.
— Sri Aurobindo
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“As when the mantra sinks in Yoga’s ear,
Its message enters stirring the blind brain
And keeps in the dim ignorant cells its sound;
The hearer understands a form of words
And, musing on the index thought it holds,
He strives to read it with the labouring mind,
But finds bright hints, not the embodied truth:
Then, falling silent in himself to know
He meets the deeper listening of his soul:
The Word repeats itself in rhythmic strains:
Thought, vision, feeling, sense, the body’s self
Are seized unutterably and he endures
An ecstasy and an immortal change;
He feels a Wideness and becomes a Power,
All knowledge rushes on him like a sea:
Transmuted by the white spiritual ray
He walks in naked heavens of joy and calm,
Sees the God-face and hears transcendent speech:
An equal greatness in her life was sown.“
— Sri Aurobindo . Savitri . Book 4: The Book of Birth and Quest . Canto 3: The Call to the Quest . Lines 220-238
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Mantra chanting by Shruti Nada Poddar
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