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Good Evening Hari,

My deep respect and humble obeseinces to you.

I got my gayatri mantra from you in Boston in 1997. I was wondering if you will advice on the benefits of chanting gayatri, significance of Gayatri mantra and the importance of Gayatri. I love to chant Gayatri and I think it is one the best gift that i have received from you.

Thank you,

your servant,

Adi-Kurma

Dear Adi,

I know you want me to say something significant in reply to your question, but I think you have answered your own question in the most significant way possible.

I love to chant Gayatri and I think it is one the best gift that i have received from you.

First off, I do not feel like I gave you the gift; rather, I passed it on to you from the source of all mantras and spirituality.

But more importantly, you say you love it. You love it because it gives you an experience you love. The effect of these mantras is great and you continue to chant and expand your experiences. These experiences give you benefits and this makes it important to you. In other words, this is something of great significance in your life.

So you answered your question. One might ask, "But why does it do so?" I think it does so because you allow it to do so. Another person can chant the same mantra and feel nothing. Indeed, most chant it as a chore -- something they should do three times a day. They are not immersed within the spirituality of the mantras. They do not have the same feeling as you have. This means you have connected to the mantras and the point of the mantras. Your connection with these subtle vibrations is the most significant part of your experience. Of course, it helps that the mantras you meditate on have power and are factually connected to spiritual energies.

I am not avoiding your question, but I do not feel comfortable answering it in the expected manner...

Dear Hari,
I love it too, like anything. But I missed to receive it. And I feel very sorry for that.. What shall I do?

Well, you could just get the text and chant it as you like. After all, the most important lines of gayatri are public having been printed in various places. Someone may say it will have no potency unless you get it from a 'proper source,' but if you take it from a book written by a 'proper source' then it should be proper, no? Of course, they will say it has to be given at the time of initiation and it has no potency unless given in this way. I suppose you could just chant it and see for yourself. There could be no harm either way.

Thank you for the answer.
I think the similar way. (Although, my personal feeling is that probably there is still some potency in receiving the "energetic frequency" from the person who is already on that wavelength, I see it as a connection to a large, universal cloud of energy.. and maybe I am emotionally attached to that, but anyway,
I found the description of Gayatri mantra(s) on many web sites, but they are all written differently, with all kinds of different pronountiation, so now I wonder, which one is correct.
I tried to find the description of the mantras used by the Vaisnavas, but the problem is, they don't want to write them down.
From the same reason you've mentioned above. I have no problem to chant them, whatever way, silently or loudly. I can experiment, that's OK, as far as I am concerned. (Of course, now some more orthodox people may object, that I shouldn't, but personally I think that spirituality is a private thing, and no organisation has the right to tell me what I should or shouldn't do. This is my life, and I have the right to chant whatever I like. Isn't it so? )
Can you please write them down?
Thanks.
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