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Language Sanskrit is known as Deb (Divine) Vahsa.(Language).(Vasha =BaaShaa as per ITRANS) Every word in Sanskrit has its origin in a root or elemental word. From thatelemental word it is possible to know the divinity of the object or the divine personalitywhich that particular word represents. The same word may also have different roots andetymological meanings. Words are expressions or defined forms of consciousness. The

process by which we articulate a word is inline with the process by which the Universe iscreated by the Gods word or by the Universal Consciousness.

The word go in Sanskrit means cow and also sense. The word go in English meansto move. The Sanskrit word go can be related to the Sanskrit root word gam. gammeans to go or to move.Since we move or work by our organs, so by the Sanskrit word go, organs or indriyahave been mentioned in the texts. Thus whenever the texts / Vedas have mentioned go(cow) it means the sensory and other organs, like the eyes, ears etc. by which we go or move around, through which we get the nourishing milk, milk of life to live. Externallyalso, these aspects are very prominent in an animal called cow, whose organs like eyes.ears, nostrils, tongue, genitals are all very prominently featured on the body. Cow

produces the nourishing milk. The Seers know how the words of the God have createdthe Universe and how the words are exhibiting themselves in the form of universe andotherwise (in unexpressed form, called avyakta in Sanskrit). So they have named thecreatures and objects accordingly. Seers can see which divine words or which deity is

prominent in which creature or object and accordingly they have done the nomenclatureof everything. This is the speciality of the language of Sanskrit.

gayatri has been explained as the goddess who rescues the organs or the indriya fromthe mortality. There is an Upanishad(a pat of the Vedas) called Vrihadaranyak Upanishad, where the seer has explained the goddess gayatri as gayanam (organs)tatrey(rescues).

There are five principal sensory organs (ears-hearing, lips/skin-touch, eyes-vision,tongue-taste, nose-smell). These are centre of consciousness. The other organs are part of these. (Organs are also called anga besides the word indriya in Sanskrit.). There twokinds of motion which we undergo with each activity. One is outward and the other isinward. We are actually swinging. We are always swinging in a cradle, like a mother whoswings the child. Like, you are reading these lines. You are outwardly active, determinedto read this, oriented yourself to this reading and thus you are reading. At the same time,whatever you are reading it is getting merged with you, it is going in you, you are feelinggood or bad about it, it remains in your memory, it stirs your emotions. This is the inwardactivity. Thus with every thing you are swinging. When you look to see a flower, youmove outward, you see the flower and then you may feel it like how beautiful!, this isinward.This is why Hindus have a god called govinda= go(organs) +vinda(who knows), thusmeaning the Consciousness who is knowing in the organs or whose knowing is theorgans, or the flow of senses. Hindus worship this god in the form of a deity swinging ona cradle.

Upanishads have described how Prinicipal Prana (mukhya Prana), the Universal Life God(who is throbbing as life and activities in you, with whom you stay in the body and with


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whom you depart from the body), takes the eye, the ear, touch etc. beyond the deathor mortality. While describing, Upanishads have termed the visions (eyes), smell (nose),hearing (ears) etc. as the Prana(streams of life) which are part of the Mukhyo(Principal) Prana(Life). Prana means active Consciousness. When or where this activityalso becomes inactive in absolute one ness there we call Him/Her as Soul/Atma. We aretalking about the same consciousness. We are talking about the real We.

Any activity can happen when there is a duality. In absolute one-ness there can not be anyactivity. Thus activity starts from the creation of duality. Atma, soul becomes Prana whenHE/SHE creates duality or splits HIM/HER in the form of creation. The moment thisduality is created the time starts flowing. The flow of Prana is called time(termed kalain Sanskrit). Prana is termed as ashva(meaning horse) in the Vedas. The Sanskrit wordashva is related to the Sanskrit word shva meaning time and also dog.( It meansdog because inherently they are obedient, they follow their masters, the ruler, i.e the timethat prevails on them.) The Sanskrit word shvas meaning to breathe also is a relatedword because we breathe by the Prana, by the Time. The term ashva(horse)\means the flowing or running time or time in action.

Upanishads have described that Principal Prana carried the eyes, ears etc. beyond death by singing whose vedic term is udgan. It is for this reason another interpretation of gayatri is the goddess who rescues us or the organs (indriyas) beyond the death,mortality by singing. gayatra-ng (by singing) trayasey (transforms, rescues). The rootword gai means to sing, or the word gai means song ,celestial musician. The wordgai also means to be called. The vedic word udgan means ud (up) + gana(sing).The Principal Prana, gayatri, sings us up, calls us up, up the death, up the limitations, upthe darkness, up the mortality.

In our process of evolution through the myriads of life and death cycles we are evolving.This is also udgan! The Principal Prana is lifting us beyond these compulsory cycles of life and death. We slowly becomes inquisitive of ourselves, we automatically startthinking who are we, what for is the life, how to surpass death, what is there beyond..This is how slowly we are getting transformed.

As the eye, the vision, is taken beyond the death, beyond the mortality, your vision, your eyes get merged with the universal centre of vision and time. Such centers are called Sunin the planetary systems. It is for these reasons the Vedas identify the eyes and the sun inseveral hymns. Thus your vision never decays.

As the Principal Prana lifts the ears beyond the death, beyond the mortality, the hearing,the ears become the directions.Directions are the vectors, the inclinations of the Prana which determine the formation of space. What is known as direction in the physical world are the inclinations, trends inyou. Directions also maintain an equilibrium to keep you stable. You have a stable trend.You may know that the physical ear has a part that decides your sense of balance. If youhear something, what you hear, it immediately sets your trends or directions or inclinationabout what you have heard. Basically hearing (shruti in Sanskrit) means feelings.Every knowledge in you, every aspect of consciousness in you, is a word which you


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listen or hear. The way you have listened about some one or some thing decides your inclination toward that subject of which you have heard.Thus your hearing, all those which are words in you, becomes unending, beyond all timeand space. Your ears never decay. Every word you hear remains embedded in directions,embedded in the set of vectors those constitute that word or the object. Thus you becomeomniscient of everything. Thus your listened word, your knowledge of a particular thingsurpasses a specific meaning and idea and becomes the seed of infinite meaning andexpressions, thus your knowledge no longer remains bound by space, they surpass thespace and gravity and remain in directions(dik in Sanskrit) which can produce an object(or a word) in different ways in different space . Your ears are having locations in thedirections in the outer space. What we see as sky, there all the directions, vectorsare in equilibrium. So beyond the death, beyond the mortality, the words will be in thesky, in the space. The components of space are the words.

Thus your sense of touch becomes unending, beyond all time and space. You remaincontacted, communicated, connected automatically with every one, beyond the limitationof time and space. Your skin, your touch becomes that universal thread, network, bywhich every one is strung. Your touch is the universal air. You touch every one! Your touch never decays.

Thus your sense of taste becomes unending, beyond all time and space. Your taste never decays, you never loose your sense of taste. You assimilate everyone, every thing youassimilate in the taste of self assimilation, assimilating every one in the juice of one-ness!Dissolving all dualities in the universal taste of one-ness. Your taste goes beyondmortality, remains in the universal spirit of one-ness, remains in all the juices those keepthe creatures animated, remains in all the water that sprinkles life. Your semen exists theuniversal water, seed of all the creatures, for re-creations!

. Thus your smell becomes unending, beyond all time and space. Your sense of smellnever decays. The air, the life you breathe in and out through the nose through theolfactory organs, is holding you and your body together. You never breathe when you arein the mothers womb. You get your body, you get caught by the earth when you breathefor the first time after you are released from the womb. In Sanskrit, the words body andthe word earth are synonyms. It is this air circulating through your nose implements thegravity in you, your body is held in you, you get earthed. Thus beyond the death yousmell remains in the earth, it remains in the universal embodiment. The sense of embodiment and the smell is the same.

As the Prinicipal Prana (mukhya Prana) lifts the words beyond the death, beyondmortality, the words becomes the fire. They become unending, beyond all time and space.The word that you speak comes from deep inside of you, from the core of your consciousness. The first spark, the first expression of consciousness is the fundamentalword. You dont know what you will talk when, what will happen to you when, in whatform the time will reveal as series of events in you and what are all those events! In everyexpression that happens in you, in every shot of feeling that you get, in the every momentwhich you get as your life, there is this fundamental word (called Bak or goddessBak in Sanskrit) in the beginning of every event. This is fire, called Agni in Sanskrit.Agni means Agram (in front) Nayati(leads). Agni, means who is always in front, who


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leads everyone else, who is always before every thing, who reveals every thing. Agni,Prana exists before every thing, every entity. This is fire, the mother of all expressions. Asthe Bak flows, She condenses, condenses to formation and thats emotion in you. As thecloud becomes dense in the sky before the shower so is it in your inner sky.Then it takes more definitive form, and reveals as determination in your mind where youare physically active. This is happening in electrifying speed. First it is expressive,contains the seed of the entire event, called Bak /teja /Fire/Electricity, then it startscondensing, called jala /Water/Prana/ Hriday/ Heart, then it becomes formed, which iscalled mind, where you determine whether to do something or not to do, where you feelthe shapes and dimensions. Mind is immediate to the physicality, or physicality is theextreme boundary of the mind. The three dimensions of time remains in one dimension inBak.

Vedas have called mind as anna whose one meaning is food, i.e. which nourishes or supports the physical world. So these are teja/jala/anna, the trinity.Goddess Bak, the fundamental word. Bak, Agni, is the element f every thing. There areseveral hymns, statements in the Vedas which have identified Bak with Agni.

This is how we are connected with the macro (called Birat or adhidaiva) in the texts.

Goddess Gayatri is also called Savitri.(saavitrI as per ITRANS) in the Vedas. Theword savan (savana as per ITRANS) means, the periods, the intervals, the intervals,the phase of a day or of the life. Savitri is the goddess who is predominating on your lifeand who makes you to flow through the savans Like a day is divided so the life isdivided and stated as

(1) prata savan----prata means the morning;(2) madhanya savan----madhanya means the middle of the noon or noon;(3) sayam savan----- sayam means the dusk.

savan also means the act of pressing out the soma juice, i.e. pressing out the juice of the life. Gayatri or Savitri has three aspects corresponding to these three phases of thelife. These three phases are also corresponding to the three Vedas, Rik, Y(J)aju andSam.gayatri has been always described as residing inside the solar(surya) sphere(mandal).

The word soma as stated earlier also means the moon. The creeper soma which usedto grow in the Hindu-kush mountains of Afghanistan, would shade its leaves during thewaning phase of moon and will have the new leaves growing during the waxing phase of the moon. Soma or the moon signifies the filtered sun light.(Also, during the Vedic ritualsthe Seers would be filtering the Soma juice.) A portion of the light is absorbed by themoon, and a part is reflected to us. Through this lunar sphere it is decided how muchevery individual gets, how much is his or her proportion or fraction. The destined thingscome to you through this aspect of consciousness called moon or the lunar sphere. The

juice, the life that flows in the plantation of the earth is controlled by moon. Similarlywhatever we get, achieved is controlled through moon It comes from the Solar sphere,gets regulated in moon, and realized or earthed in us. The divine fire, which is calledvidyut (meaning electricity) is refractive in the Sun, is reflective in moon, and whenearthed becomes the earthly glow or earthly fire, known commonly as fire. These are thethree Principal radiance, luminescence of the Consciousness. (Note that the electricity if


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earthed catches fire.). These three centers of Consciousness is know as surya mandal(Solar sphere), Soma Mandal(Lunar sphere) and Vahni (or Agni) Mandal (Terrestrialsphere).

We also return to the earth through the lunar sphere. In this center it is decided where wewill be born, how will be our life etc. Similarly after the death we return to the lunar center and from there we go to the other planes(loka).

These three centers are also known as vu, vuba, and sva.All physicality, all shapes and dimensions in all space and time is held in vu (terrestrialsphere, Agni or Vanhi mandal). vu is the radiance or expression of gayatri.

If you can close your eyes and feel the world (which you see externally) inside your mindwithout being particular of the shapes and dimensions, you will get a feeling of the Lunar sphere (soma mandal), vuba. Here everything is there as in the external earth, butwithout the shapes and dimensions. This is the Lunar sphere as described above. vuba isa radiance or expression of gayatri..

The word sva precisely means the assertion less self in you. When you assert, you sayI am so an so.. You keep on varying every moment, now you are happy, nextmoment you are anxious, next moment you are absorbed in a thought and so on. This canhappen in you or in the consciousness because there is a plane of neutrality in you whereyou remain unchanged or neutral in-spite of your changes all the time. Otherwise onceyou enter into laughter, next time you could not be sad, you would keep on laughing!Because of the plane of neutrality you keep on changing. ( in the texts, this aspect istermed as asanga meaning not involved, untouched. You have two poles, at one endyou always change with time, you cry, you laugh, you fear, you work..At the other end(pole) you remain unchanged, untainted, immaculate! There the time does not act onyou or from there the time , regulation or prana originates. This is immutable, immortalyou. This sva in you is sva in me, sva in everyone. It is with Ones self, we all haveour selves. Here you are self luminescent. Here you find that everything you know isfrom you, your forms. This is self luminescent Gayatri, consciousness in you! Thisradiance in macro is called sva loka. loka means a plane, a territory. Here every thingyou get in you, you dont have to work and struggle.

gayatri is radiating HER radiance, thats how we are all alive, every one, every where. ByHER radiance the time is flowing, the universe is ever active. The seed of the work,activities, motion, is formed in sva. Every moment / event which you are going to seeis first formed here. Then it comes to the middle or lunar plane in you, which is vuba.This is your emotional plane, where you feel sorrow, joy, where you desire. Then in thenext step, you get ready, you determine to work, you get active, this is vu. Youdetermine and become physically active. This is how the radiance of gayatri(calledvargo) is coming in us all the time. Whether you meditate or not, the radiance is alwayscoming to you to keep you alive to elevate you beyond death.First Bak gets initiated Herself. Then an entire event which you are going to see iscreated, but in a seed. This is Teja (radiance). This is the elemental time, where the entireevent is held or known in an instant! Here time which we feel in sequence is heldtogether (i.e. future, present, past are together.).Then time, Bak, unfolds in sequences.


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Then you get desirous in the middle plane, heart, lunar plane, plane of reflections. Thedesires crystallize,(i.e. the directions, vectors starts transforming into space or shape), yougets determined and activated mentally and physically. This is happening everywhere,universally.There is a hymn in the Vedas:asato ma sadgamaya | tamaso ma jyotirgamaya | mrrityorma amritam gamaya

pavamana soma punihi punihi mam

{(take us) from the unreality to the realityfrom the darkness to the lightfrom the mortality to the eternity;oh! flowing soma, purify us, purify us!}

References and notes:

1. Monier Williams Online Dictionary.2. Chandogya Upanishad3. Brihadranyaka UpanishadSome Sanskrit words as per ITRANS (refer Monier Williams Online Dictionary).

Words used in the above text Word as per ITRANS1. gayatri gaayatrI2. vu BU3. vuba Buva4. anga a~Nga5. mandal maNDala6. vargo Barga7. prata savan praata savana8. madhanya savan madhyaahna savana9. sayam savan saayam savana10. asanga asa~Nga11. Prana praaNa12. Mukhya mukhya13. Vahni vahni14. Bak vaak 15. Savitri saavitrI16. Teja teja17. Agni agni18. Hriday hRidaya


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