Wisdom of Consciousness

OM–The Absolute, the Ever-REAL, never unreal, the All-pervading, imageless Truth

BHUH — The Creator of all things living and non-living; the basis of all Life, all Creation; the Lower Region

BHUVAH — The Sustainer of Creation, the Life-Force that pervades the body and invigorates the mind and intellect; the Middle Region

SVAHA — The Giver of Self, the formulator of Consciousness, the Spirit Self, the Higher Region of Pure Consciousness

TAT — That

SAVITA — Creator of all this (Bhur Bhuvah Svaha)

VARENYAM — is the best choice we can make for our lives; there is no choice more worthy than this choice (which is to choose the Highest State of Consciousness)

BHARGO DEVASYA — The absolutely pure qualities of That absolutely imageless Self

DHIMAHI — we meditate upon

DHIYOYO NAH PRACHODAYAT — We invoke that Supreme Power to guide our intellect so that we always make the right choices in our life.

May we always be guided by Divine Wisdom so that we can clearly discern between the Real and the unreal, the True and the False, the helpful and harmful. We affirm our connection to our Original State of Being, and we reaffirm our True Nature again and again by making up our mind to live in the Highest State of Consciousness while living in this human body. OM

This Gayatri Mantra (pronounced: guy-a-tree) is the universal prayer and positive affirmation, which contains the secret (hidden) power to transform ordinary consciousness into the highest state of consciousness. To unlock this power it is necessary to insert the key of deliberation into the mind. In fact, one of the connotations of the word MANTRA is ‘deliberation’. In other words, we must deliberate on the meaning and deliberately practice the lessons derived from this deliberation.

Repeat the Gayatri Mantra over, again and again, concentrating on the meanings and losing your self (ego) in the vibrations. This Mantra will bring you close to your Real Self.

Meditation on the Gayatri Mantra

Knowing what to do and doing it go hand in hand. If there is a disconnect between ‘knowing’ and ‘doing’, we are living in unreality. Unreality is self-deception. When we deceive ourselves we become deluded. Self-delusion is born of Ignorance–it arises when we ignore what we know and don’t do what we know we should do. People who constantly ignore doing what they know they need to do become delusional.

Self-delusion is prevalent in all walks of life, but I will talk about self-delusion on the spiritual path.

The ’spiritual path’ is supposed to be the way to Self-Realization (Enlightenment, At-one-ment, Nirvana, Moksha, etc.). But it is impossible to actually realize the Truth without practicing it. To reach one’s destination one must walk in the right direction. If we take a wrong turn along the way and don’t correct ourselves, we will not reach our destination, we will not end up where we really want to go. Unfortunately, this is the situation with many people who search for the Truth.

It is easy to delude ourselves into thinking we are knowers of truth. There are people who think they know everything, but until we realize that we know nothing it is impossible to become truly wise. There are many so-called spiritual masters who are presumably experienced guides on the spiritual path, and yet few of them have truly trodden that path. There are many people who are wise in their own eyes, even though they remain spiritually blind.

It is easy to preach but difficult to practice what you preach. How can you teach others if you haven’t learned your own lessons? There are people who profess to know the truth, and yet they live untruthful lives and continue to delude themselves. We are untruthful to ourselves if we compromise our principles to please our ego or gratify the selfish whims of our mind. If the mind hasn’t been purified, we will continue to live in the putrid feelings of our small self. Decorating our mind with images of unreality will not remove the stench of our self-centered habits and gross persona.

There is only one path to the Truth and that is the ‘path within’. The ‘path within’ means we need to be self-contained and zealously avoid self-contamination. We need to restrain our ego and purify the mind. This is done through our daily actions. It is not accomplished by merely reading a book, going to so-called places of worship, or attending a self-help seminar or spiritual discourse.

If we don’t know what we need to do, then we need to find out what that is. Once we know what we need to do, we need to practice it. When our practice becomes perfect (which means, ‘when we remove all our excuses’), then our ‘knowing’ and ‘doing’ will be in concord, and that harmony will resonate in our whole being, and we will have attained the highest state of Consciousness. OM