1 Adyashakti:The manifest cosmos arises from the desire of the absolute (Brahman) to engage in the joy of creation of which we ourselves are a part. The force of that desire of the absolute is Gayatri (adyashakti or brahmi-shakti). All other powers of the manifest cosmic creation are dependent for their existence on this primordial generative force whose attributes are production, development and transformation, and which is the divine mother adya-shakti Gayatri.
2. Brahmi or Brahmani: Brahma, Vishnu, Mahesha: creation, development transformation. In creation or production deligence is most necessary and important, as by diligence on contributes to the welfare of others and becomes the boject of their thankfulness. These are the prime attrib utes of mother brahmi by whose shakti brahma becomes capable of producing the cosmos.
3. Vaishnavi: Vaishnavi is the power of Vishnu. She is the sustainer, developer and organizer. By another name she is also lakshmi or the giver of prosperity and culturee. Mother vaishnavi is the sustainer of the good.
4. Shambhavi: Mother shambhavi is the divinity of auspicious transformation, productive change and beneficent reconstruction. In another form she is the shakti of shiva.
5. Vedamata: In this form Gayatri is the mother of the Vedas, as the revelations proceeding from 'Om Bhurbhuvasvah' become the Rigveda; from 'tatsaviturvarenyam' the priciples of the esoteric knowledge were rendered in the yajurveda; from 'bhargodevasya dhimahi' came the knowledge of the functioning of the universe contained in the samaveda; and from 'dhiyo yonah prachodayat' the secrets of cosmic and divine power were embodied as the athar-vaveda. For this reason Gayatri is referred to in the scriptures as vedamata, or the mother of the Vedas.
6. Devamata: Gayatri is the celestial mother too, i.e., the bestower of divinity, or of the divine beings. The bestower of divinity, or of the divine beings. The divine beings are divine because they are generous and charitable. The worship of Gayatri as devemata takes us up to the level of divinity by instilling in us the qualities ofcharity, equanimify, and of right conduct.
7. Vishvamata: Gayatri is the universal mother. She sustains and binds the universe by the spirit of unity. By her grace as vishvamata man acquires reverence for all living beings and becomes and instrument of social harmony and prosperity.
8. Mandakini: Seers consider the sacred Ganga as the visible representation of the subtle and invisible Gayatri. Ganga can cleanse the earthly sins, and Gayatri cuts the bondate of karma. For this reson ganga and Gayatri as taken to be equally auspicious. Ganaga as the earthly representative of Gayatri is called mandakini (the calmly flowing one) who removes our genuinely repented for sins.
9. Ajapa: In the sadhana of Gayatri a state of grace is reached where the devotee attains a self-maintained contact with god. This state of divine union iscalled ajapa (above prayer) state. As it is the power of Gayatri which leads one's soul to this state, she has also been named as ajapa.
10. & 11. Riddhi and Siddhi: Of the twenty-four deities of Gayatri the lorg gaanesa is one. Ganesa is the deity of intellect giving it the capacity of discrimination. Ganesa has two female consortdivinities, viz., riddhi and siddhi. Riddhi is the giver and the substance of the spiritual attainments; and siddhi is the giver of material and physical endowments. And both of them are the powers of Gayatri, one operating internally and the other externally.
12. Rtambhara: God's greatest gift to man is full cosmic consciousness or perception which when received removes all the bonds of maya. This full cosmic consciousness is rtambhara prajna; and Gayatri in her cosmic form is rtambhara and this realization is self-realisation or mukti.
13. Savitri: The primordial shakti has two flows, one immanent and transcendental. I.e., spititual; and the other manifest, i.e. phenomenal and physical. The spiritual flow is called Gayatri, while the physical is namedas savitri. Savitri is seen as five-faced because the perceptible universe is constituted of five fundamental energy-substances or states. Of all the innumerable forms of Gayatri, savitri is nearest to us and also the most powerful; and the inter-relationship of savitri and Gayatri is so close that they can be said to be one and the same.
14. Lakshmi: Gayatri as the dispenser of material contentment and happiness is lakshmi. By her grace we find our material circumstances aiding us in our self-development and adding to our capacity for social welfare and good conduct. Excess of material riches without the grace of lakshmi is an evil and causes social strife, but the same riches blessed by the grace of lakshmi become a force for social welfare.
15. Durga: Gayatri as the time-force is called durga or kali. Life is a battleground where our greatest foes are mostly our own weaknesses of mind and character. By seeking mother durga's grace one acquires the strength of spirit to rectify these deficiencies.
16. Saraswati: Awareness has two polar attributes - the perceiving consciousness and the discriminatory intellect. Gayatri is the motivating force of the perceiving conscriousness while the discriminatory intellect functions by the grace of saraswati. Man is nothing more than a brute without right discrimination. Therefore the grace of saraswati is necessary for us to sustain our intelligent humanity.
17. Kundalini: Gayatri as kundalini is the quiescent material cosmic energy entwined with the individual embodied self. All yoga is concerned with the arousal of kundalini for self realization.
18. Annupurna: Food is the first direct necessity for sustaining life. As annapurna Gayatri is the provident mother nature who produces materials made available to us as food. Seeking Gayatri's grace as annapurna obviates individual want and bestows contentment.
19. Mahamaya:Human identity being limited the human perception is also incomplete. Maya is delusion and mahamaya is delusionlessness. Gayatri is called mahamaya because when she has been realized as mahamaya the true functioning of the cosmos is fully revealed and the self knows its own divine origin.
20. Payasvini: Gayatri as the provider of the elixir of immortality in the form of self-realisation is named payasvini. Cow because she provides us generously with life-giving milk is taken to be the representative of Gayatri from the animal kingdom, and therefore she is held sacred. She is therefore called payasvini (provider of milk). Cow is also an example to us of benevolence, charity and self-sacrifice, which are the self-same qualities of personal conduct required to realize the grace of Gayatri.
21. Pranagni: Gayatri is also pranagni, or the vital fire permeating our bodied self. When Gayatri is realized in this form our weaknesses and deficiencies are consumed by pranagni and our divine attributes become manifest.
22. Treyta or Tripura: Gayatri reigns over the three spheres of existence and in which capacity she is known as tripura. A balanced combination of faith, knowledge and action are necessary for any beneficent human activity, and they are also necessary for realizing the triple attributes of sat-chit-ananda (existence-consciousness-bliss) of the all-containing Brahman. By the grace of Gayatri this state of realization is reached.
23. Bhavani: The evil-destroying power of Gayatri becomes personified as bhavani who is the defender of the good, the meek and the down trodden and defenseless.
24. Bhuvaneswari: Gayatri as the divine sustainer-force of the universal harmony and well-being and as the goddess of the individual's properity and happiness is called bhuvaneswari. By right social effort we earn her grace.
2007-08-14 01:55:45
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answered by Sharma, Dr. Vinay k. 4
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Actually the names mentioned by you are different names of Devi Parvati, which also applies to Gayatri Maa, as Gayatri Mata is also considered as Parvti. . In Gayatri Mantra 24 syllables have various meanings and they are given below:
Many feel that the benefits are showered by some Gods or Goddesses and these powers are perceived from the Goddess names mentoned by you. . But in reality, the development of the subtle force is done within themselves. If they are able to realize the subtle force working in them, they will realize that such benefits do not accrue of their own accord, and that all of them are the results of the interplay of spiritual forces in them. Gayatri sadhana or upasana is no more a blind faith, but is a scientific process.
The Gayatri Mantra is one of the keynotes to the transformation of consciousness and is an identical vibration to the vital force in nature. The Gayatri Mantra is extremely powerful and its divine implications are not easily comprehended.
The 24 syllables in the mantra are intended to give the following qualities in physical plane.
1. 'tat' - tapini - fruitfulness
2 'sa' - saphalata - valor
3 'vi' - visshwa - perseverance
4 'tur' - tushti - welfare
5 'va' - varada - yoga
6 're' - revati - love
7 'ni' - sukshma - wealth
8 'yam' - jnana - lustre
9 'bhar' - bharga - protection
10 'go' - gomati - wisdom
11 'de' - devika - subjugation
12 'va' - varahi - allegiance
13 'sya' - simhani - determination
14 'dhi' - dhyana - life
15 'ma' - maryada - time
16 'hi' - sphutaa - penance
17 'dhi' - medha - forecast
18 'yo' - yogamaya - alertness
19 'yo' - yogini - production
20 'nah' - dhanin - protection
21 'pra' - prabhava - idealism
22 'cho' - ushma - adventure
23 'da' - drishya - discrimination
24 'at' - niranjana - service.
The 24 powers of Gayatri mentioned above awaken certain qualities, and along with this awakening, one starts getting success and prosperity i.e., siddhi. -
2007-08-14 01:07:41
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answered by Jayaraman 7
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The liberation of human soul is in conjoining of Shiva and Shakthi and penetrating the Sahasrarachakra of the microcosmic being called human being. Once it penetrate the travel further is by a conjoined force of Shiva and Shakthi and therefore the Ardhanarishwara concept is the roadmap for further travel of such enlightened Soul to penetrate the Virata being in the process of macrocosmic Shadadhara penetration which are the seven upper worlds. Shankha Chakra Gadha Hastam therefore is representative of God Head Vishnu while the Ratnamakuta, Abhaya Varada Hasta are representing Lakshmi whether you see these as Shiva or Shakthi is your Dharana. Kapalam is indicative of Shiva and dissolution, whereas the two Lotus are indicative of the two levels of Sahashrara Chakra which needs penetration before one can achieve the state of Brahmatara (The creative cosmos inert energy i.e. undifferentiated Brahman who is capable of omnipotent in creating a cosmos at Will) This is the journey of the Parabrahman to Brahman and even the demigods have to take the life of human being to transcend and travel this path. Because only in Karmabhoomi like planet Earth can one purify his consciousnessness (parabrahman) to achieve those levels beyond the God head. The meaning of what you wrote is written, known and understood at varying levels of consciousness and is intepretable in billions of ways according to the level of your emancipation in spiritual path. Infinite are the ways that the Shruthi can be understood. By asking the exact meaning you are attempting to give the sloka a finite meaning. Infinite is within finite but cannot be confined to finite.
2016-03-16 23:13:40
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answered by Anonymous
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You have given 24 FORMS of Gayatri. I do notwant to repeat it.Pl. see web; www.fatewatch.com/mantras/powerofgayatri.htm
gives the information you needed
2007-08-14 04:10:08
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answered by Muthu S 7
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Bhuvaneswari Meaning
2016-12-17 08:37:06
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answered by ? 4
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Remember, "god" is nothing more than a nonsense word made up by man to explain away all of the things we can't yet understand.
2007-08-14 00:39:41
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answered by Anonymous
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