Purna yoga gayatri mantra recitation

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Introduction & History

The Gayatri Mantra has been recorded in the Rig Veda, which was written in Sanskrit according to historians about to years ago or possibly even earlier.

The mantra itself may have been chanted for many centuries or millennia before that. It is said to be the Mother of the Vedas, or the essence of the Vedas.

Purna yoga gayatri mantra recitation

For ages, this beautiful prayer has been mysterious to the Western mind and was out of reach even for most Hindus. It was a well-guarded secret, withheld from women and from those outside the Hindu Brahmin community until relatively recent times.

The Gayatri Mantra has been chanted unbroken for over 1, years at one ashram in India. When we chant the Gayatri we enter into that great river of devotion that has been flowing through thousands of years.

Meaning

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