Gayatri is the personification of a specific metre in Sanskrit poetry. As a goddess, she is supposed to be the power behind the inspirations and intuitions of the Vedic seers and hence considered as Vedmata and a consort of goddess Saraswati who has built the worlds. As the mantra, she contains within it the power to invoke Savitri, the power of the Sun hidden in the darkness, so that the mind may be illumined.
Savitri’s name itself is a mantra as she embodies the highest supramental Truth, the Sun as the Creator in all its Splendour. She has also taken a human body in far back times and in her human birth is considered to be an incarnation, a partial manifestation of the Divine Mother.
The doors of knowledge are within each one of us. But our intelligence is turned outwards skimming the appearances. When we turn within in a seeking for knowledge then at some point these inner doors open by Her Grace and knowledge pours flooding in. Reading spiritual works such as those of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, meditating upon the truths they contain and trying to live them helps open the doors.
Affectionately,
Alok da.
