We can also divide the mantra(Gayatri) into three parts:
Part One: OM. bhur bhuva svah
Part Two: Tat savitur varenyam Bhargo Devasya Dhimahi
Part Three: Dhiyo yonah prachodayat.
The first part harmonizes the vehicles; the second part causes aspiration, upliftment, and focus; the third part opens the pathway toward the Sun and invites us to surrender and fuse ourselves with the innermost light.
The first part refers not only to the physical, astral, and mental worlds but also to the etheric body, the emotional body, and the mental vehicle of man. These three vehicles are harmonized and brought into alignment with the three worlds by the first part of the Gayatri.
Part One: OM. bhur bhuva svah
Part Two: Tat savitur varenyam Bhargo Devasya Dhimahi
Part Three: Dhiyo yonah prachodayat.
The first part harmonizes the vehicles; the second part causes aspiration, upliftment, and focus; the third part opens the pathway toward the Sun and invites us to surrender and fuse ourselves with the innermost light.
The first part refers not only to the physical, astral, and mental worlds but also to the etheric body, the emotional body, and the mental vehicle of man. These three vehicles are harmonized and brought into alignment with the three worlds by the first part of the Gayatri.
OM. Bhur Bhuva Svah or
OM. Earth, Mid-world, and Heaven.
OM. Earth, Mid-world, and Heaven.
Tradition tells us that the sound of these Sanskrit words has power to harmonize, align, and integrate the three vehicles of man with the three worlds. This power is called mantra Shakti, or energy emanation from words and sounds.
Further, these three words refer to the three Deities ruling over these three spheres: Agni, Vaju, and Aditya and their energies: will, love, and light.
In the Upanishads we read that the essence of the Vedas is also referred to by these three words, Bhur, Bhuva, Svah, which originate in the OM and have their existence in OM, which stands as the jewel in the Lotus or as the developing, unfolding human soul or Self.
Further, these three words refer to the three Deities ruling over these three spheres: Agni, Vaju, and Aditya and their energies: will, love, and light.
In the Upanishads we read that the essence of the Vedas is also referred to by these three words, Bhur, Bhuva, Svah, which originate in the OM and have their existence in OM, which stands as the jewel in the Lotus or as the developing, unfolding human soul or Self.
Torkom Saraydarian, Prayers, Mantrams and Invocations
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