The word “gAyatree” has its origin in the Sanskrit phrase “gAyantam trAyatE iti” which means that mantra which rescues the chanter from all adverse situations that may lead to mortality. gAyatree mantra finds its place in rig Veda samhitA 3. gAyatri mantrA is the most powerful mantra. She is called tripAda gAyatri having three sections of 8 syllables each. The “taittriya AranyakA” 2.10 and 2.11 describes about the pancha maha yagya and sandhyAvandanam to be performed by a dvija. So the mantrA took the most powerful form as follows: It also specifies that the praNava mantrA “Om” and the 3 mahAvyAhrutIs, “bhoo:, bhuva: and suva:” be always recited before the “gAyatri mantrA”. The gAyatree mantrA is initiated by a brahman priest/pandit during the “upanayana samskArA”. The mantrA is given below for reference only. Om bhoor bhuvah suvah, tatsavitur varENyam, bhargO dEvasya dheemahi, dhiyO yO nah prachOdayAt. We meditate upon the effulgence of that adorable supreme divine reality, the source of the physical, the astral and the heavenly spheres of existence. May that supreme divine being enlighten our intellect, so that we may realise the supreme truth.”
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