Super Science of Gayatri

SUPER SCIENCE OF GAYATRI

The Gayatri Mantra is revered by the seers-sages, yogis and spiritual scientists as supreme among the Vedic Mantras. It is regarded as the origin of the Vedas and the Vedic Culture (also referred as the Divine Culture the culture of divine values). Since the Vedic Age, the rishis and the spiritual seekers have been practicing the sadhana of Gayatri with ascetic disciplines. Successful completion of this sadhana awakens the divinity indwelling in the inner self, illuminates the intellect with the luminescence of wisdom, and activates supernormal talents.

However, the deeper knowledge of this great mantra and the science behind its sublime power, like the other precious pearls of the Vedic texts and practices, were largely distorted in the medieval times of feudalism and invasions of foreign enemies. It was against this back-drop that Pandit Shriram Sharma Acharya, a rishi of the modern times endeavored devout long-term Gayatri-Sadhana and pioneered renaissance of spirituality and Gayatri in scientific light.

The present book is an elementary version of “Gayatri Mabavigyan” written by him. It introduces the basics as well as advanced sadbanas of Gayatri, the scientific mechanism of the effects of chanting this great mantra, and elucidates its significance in yoga-sadhanas and spiritual evolution. It also cites the views of several great personalities across the globe, and highlights the universal role of the Gayatri Mantra/Sadhana in the awakening of collective consciousness and in the enlightened upliftment of the masses today.

INTRODUCTION

A person can proceed rapidly on the path of soul growth and self-realization through devotion of the Goddess Gayatri the supreme creative energy of the divine. It endows its devotee with true wisdom. A subtle, uninterrupted current of divine energy starts flowing through the inner being of the devotee, cleansing his intellect, mind and emotions of the perverse, perverted and dark thoughts, feelings and desires.

The effect of sincere and steadfast Gayatri Sādhanā is swift and miraculous in purifying, harmonizing and steadying the mind and thus establishing unshakable inner peace and a sense of joy filled calm even in the face of grave trials and tribulations in the outer life of the Sadhak.

Gayatri Sadhanā bestows extra-ordinary benefits on the devotees. Many persons have performed Gayatri Sādhanā under my guidance and I have myself been a witness to the material and spiritual benefits achieved by them through this Sadhana. The reason is that they get true discriminative wisdom as a divine gift in the light of which all infirmities, complications and difficulties, which make people unhappy, worried and miserable, are solved. Darkness has no independent existence of its own.

It is nothing but absence of Light. In the same way, unhappiness is nothing but absence of knowledge. Otherwise, in this orderly creation of God, there is no shadow of sorrow or suffering. God is Sat, Chit, Anand, embodiment of Supreme Truth, Pure, Awareness and Divine Bliss. Human beings suffer because they choose to aimlessly wander in the wilderness of ignorance- forgetting their true identity as Divine sparks. Otherwise, birth in a human body is a great boon, which even the gods covet, because it is the only means through which a soul can attain self-realization, the fount of unalloyed Bliss.

The Sadhana of Gayatri is worship of supreme Knowledge. It is my personal experience and firm belief that those who worship Gayatri will never be lacking in spiritual enlightenment and worldly happiness.

FOREWARD

Ever Since the beginning of the Vedic Era chanting of Gayatri mantra, Gayatri Sadhanā and Yagya have been considered the most potent means of invoking divine energies, latent in the deeper consciousness of human beings, for the refinement, upliftment and wellbeing of individuals as well as the society. However, with the passage of time, especially during the dark medieval ages of feudalism and foreign domination, their came about a general all round decline of ethical, moral and social values.

As a result, Vedic rituals, modes of worship and prayer underwent gross distortions at the hands of the priestly class. It was sought to be made out through these perverted interpretations that Gayatri mantra, Gayatri Sādhanā and Yagya were the exclusive prerogatives of the male members of one particular caste, the Brahmans. Women were strictly forbidden to take up Gayatri Sadhana. They pronounced that Gayatri Sadhanā, according to the scriptures, was a secret doctrine and the mantra could not be chanted audibly. Such retrograde orthodoxy and the pomp, pelf and ostentation which was introduced into the modes of worship led to the undermining of faith in Vedic Dharma.

It was against this back-drop that there appeared on the scene a pioneer of spiritual renaissance and the guiding spirit behind the reformation programme for a resurgent society, the seer-saint scholar, Yugrishi Pandit Shriram Sharma Acharya. He was born on September 20, 1911 in village Anwalkheda, District Agra, (U.P.). He was formally initiated into Gayatri Sadhanā, at the tender age of eight, by the great nationalist leader, Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya, the founder of Benaras Hindu University.

In 1926, at the age of fifteen, when he was doing Gayatri mantra Jap in the early hours of the auspicious Vasant Panchami day, the great Himalayan Yogi, Swami Sarveshwaranandaji, who is living in his astral body for the past many centuries, appeared in Acharyaji’s room of worship as an apparition of dazzling light and revealed to the latter glimpses of his three earlier incarnations and the mission of present birth. Intuitively recognising this great Yogi as his divine Guru, Acharyashri totally surrendered himself to him and unquestioningly and scrupulously carried out his biddings throughout his life.

As instructed by the divine Master Acharyashri performed twenty-four Mahapurashcharans (each of 2.4 million recitation of Gayatri mantra) in twenty-four years in front of an incessantly lit lamp (Akhand Deep), which has been kept so lit ever since and can be seen in Shantikunj in his Sadhanästhali. During this period, he strictly observed the prescribed devout austerities.

He was actively involved as a freedom fighter, spent sometime at Gandhiji’s Sabarmati Ashram as a volunteer and went to jail a number of times as a political activist. He visited his divine Guru’s retreat in the high Himalayas four times for intensive tapsaya and Sadhanā for self-transformation under the master’s direct guidance.

Acharyashri started a monthly magazine “Akhand Jyoti” in Hindi on Vasant Parva, 1937 which has now a circulation of more than 1.5 million in Hindi and various other Indian languages. Besides translations of and commentaries on Vedas, Upanishadas, Smritis, Darshans and Puranas, he wrote four volumes of Pragya Purana, thousands of books and booklets on all aspects of upliftment of human life.

Although true evaluation of Acharyaji’s greatness has to be left to the historians, one can have a glimpse of his divine personality by going through the stupendous corpus of his writings which is being published in 108 volumes, titled “Complete Works of Pandit Shriram Sharma Acharya”, seventy of these have already been published. The Brahmavarchas Research Institute of Shantikunj, Haridwar is a living testimony to Acharyaji’s pre-eminence as a great teacher, combining in himself the penetrating vision of a seer and a superbly refined intellect of an original scientist.

With a view to accelerating the process of transformation of human consciousness from the astral plane this great worshipper of Gayatri, after leading an illustrious life of 80 years, voluntarily shed his physical sheath on Gayatri Jayanti day on June 2nd, 1990.

A comprehensive treatise on the super-science of Gayatri was written by Acharyashri in Hindi and was published in three volumes (now available in one single volume). An English translation of important chapters of these books was published under the title “The Great Science and Philosophy of Gayatri” The present book -“Super Science of Gayatri” is a thoroughly revised, and edited version of the former book with appropriate additions and corrections.

This book contains all which is worth knowing about Gayatri mantra, Gayatri Sādhanā and Gayatri Yagya. It is hoped that by logically connecting science with spirituality, it will provide to the aspirant readers unambiguous guidelines, deep inspiration and firm faith in Gayatri Sādhanā, and fulfill the true purpose of human life.

– Dr. Pranav Pandya
MD