Why Chanting Gayatri Mantra is Good for your Soul?

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Introduction

Physics has now proved that everything in the world is energy or vibration. Our body is pure energy too. All cells in the body are also vibrating at a certain frequency. When we chant the mantra we experience a state of peace, relaxation, and health. However when we vibrate at a wrong frequency, then the energy gets stuck and suffers from disease and pain. 

The controlled study showed that chanting the Vedic hymn really improved concentration. In teenage school students have been found that the sound of chanting the specific mantra synchronizes the right and left hemispheres of the brain. Chanting also helps the oxygenation of the brain, reduces our heart rate and blood pressure, and also assists in creating calm brain wave activity. 

Mantras are used during meditation to clear your mind and bring focus to the present moment. Mantras chanting helps to release the stuck energy and return our body to natural resonance. Our ancient seekers and seers knew this world of vibration far before modern science and had proved this and developed. 

An exact science of supernatural vibrations to release the mind from anxieties. That is called a mantra. Amongst all the mantras Gayatri mantra holds the position of most powerful and important mantra. Gayatri Mantra is mentioned in Rig Veda also known as the Savitra mantra in the honor of its preceding deity Savitra.

How to chant the Gayatri Mantra?

Several studies have shown that recitation of the Gayatri mantra increases the synchronicity of cardiovascular rhythm as well as increases baroreflex sensitivity. This finding suggests that the recitation of mantras at a specific frequency induces a referable psychological and physiological effect. 

It should be chanted in the right way in the right tune. In Patanjalis yoga suturas mentioned Tat Japa Tat Artha Bhavan. When you recite any mantra you should know the meaning of mantra and you should bring all the feelings and all the purity within you and say the mantra. The mantras have to be chanted with proper bhava with proper understanding. 

We mantra to settle our minds and feel the union between ourselves and the divine. This experience is possible only with your intention, faith, and devotion. No matter which mantra you chant but bring correct bhakti and bhava and chant the mantra. It is belived that chanting the Gayatri mantra brings the Shakti that is the power of intellect.

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What is the meaning of the Gayatri mantra?

The mantra is “ Om bhur bhuvasvah tats turn varainyam charge devasaya dhimahi Adhi yo-yo Nah prachodayat” now let’s understand the meaning word the the the byword.

• Om- the primal sound

• Bhur- The physical body/physical realm

• Bhuvasvah- The life force/Mental realm

• Tat- the God

• Svitur-The sun/creator

• Varainyam- adore

• Bhargo- The divine light

• Devasaya- supreme lord

• Dhimahi- meditate

• Dhio- The intellect

• Yo-yo- may this light

• Prachodayat- illuminate or inspire

The meaning would be that meditate upon the most adored supreme lord the creator. The divine light illuminates the realm of physical, mental, and spiritual. May this divine light illuminate our intellect that all good thoughts come to me from all the sides and may my intellect illuminate. The words carry energy and mantra even more.


What is the best time to chant Gayatri Mantra?

According to Vedas time has three qualities- Satva (purity), rajas( passion), tamas(inaction).

• Satva quality timing is 4am to 8am and 4pm to 8pm.

• Rajas timing is 8am to 4pm.

• Tamas's timing is 8pm to 4am.

According to Vedas Satva is the best time to chant the Gayatri Mantra.

Five Health Benefits of Chanting the Gayatri Mantra

1. Relax the mind- Chanting the Gayatri mantra helps to stimulate the relaxing hormones and also stimulates all chakras in our body.

2. Increase concentration and learning- The experiment was held and the experiment was that there are two groups and each group has 50 members. The first group has to chant the mantra for five weeks 108 times a day and the second group doesn’t have a need to do these things and the result shows that the learning capacity has been increased in the first group member as compared to the second group.

3. Increase the capacity of nerves- During chanting the mantra the pressure that is exerted on your tongue, lips, vocal cord, and the connecting regions in and around your brain create a resonance or a vibration that helps strengthen and stimulate the functioning of your nerves.

4. Improves mental health- Gayatri Mantra helps to reduce stress and other mental health problems. This mantra is a way to connect with God and give all the problems to God.

5. Improves breathing capacity- while chanting the mantra we have to take a deep breath and then chant, regular practice of this helps to increase the capacity of the lungs.

Written By - Lakshya Thakur

Edited By - Anamika Malik