The whole universe vibrates with female energy. The first word that a child says is 'mummy', not 'daddy'. Because that is the energy that is always there and so easy to absorb. Many of us look for God everywhere else except where we should be looking - within ourselves. The body is matter or 'prakti'. The energy required to move mass is called 'shakti' - the female energy. No matter where you go in the world you will find that the mother takes the first place in everybody’s life. A child calls their mother when they are hurt. This is a natural occurrence. We might think that we're calling our physical mother, but we are actually calling the Supreme Mother. So when we have some kind of injury we call, ‘Ma’. If a child needs something, he’ll shout for his mother first.Gayathri has many forms. One form is Hamsa Gayathri. She sits on a swan and is the deity of a movement called 'Gayathri Pariwar'. The form of Gayathri that we follow is called Kabala Brahma Gayathri. She has five heads and sits on a lotus and holds a skull in her right hand. What does this mean? This means that our five senses, our five sheaths, or five bodies, are all the same if you follow the principles of spirituality. There are no differences between the bodies, if you follow universal spiritual principles with regard to female worship of God. It also means we should not be egoistic when we worship Mother Gayathri. The mantra, and the tantra mantra, is said to be the mantra of all Vedas. Just by reciting the powerful Gayathri Mantra, no matter what you want, you will get. We have devotees who are perfect examples who, by following the sadhana of reciting the Gayathri Mantra, sixty-four times in the morning, one-hundred-and-eight times at lunch, and sixty-four times in the evening, attain whatever they desire, without exception. I, too, am a perfect example of reciting the mantra and attaining, both spiritually and materially. But you must do the minimum required number of mantras. Do not do them all at one time, but three times a day, as indicated.
The Gayathri Mantra is so powerful that it was not given to the ordinary man prior to Sri Ramacharya and Murugesu Swami. Sri Ramacharya instructed Murugesu Swami to make the mantra public. This is the mantra that only the brahmin (priest) class were allowed to recite at one time. Why? Because the benefits and destructive capabilites are so extreme. It can also be used negatively in tantra in a special mantrika formula. After you've recited the mantra a certain number of times, you'll find that the mantra becomes part of you and that you’ll resonate at the frequency of that mantra. For every breath we should do one Gayathri, all day. If this is done for five years without failure, the Mother will appear in front of you and tell you to stop. I have experienced that myself so I can tell you that it works. You should be initiated into the mantra. This is usually done with hindu males at birth, but this is seldom done nowadays. People forget that this powerful medicine should be used daily. I can tell you gain, from my experience, and the experience of some people here. Your day is not complete if you didn’t recite the mantra at least once. We must just find the time to do this.
Traditional Hindus conduct fire ceremonies. The simple understanding of this is that without fire there is no life. That might not sound right to us, but when you are dead, they say you’re cold. When you're not dead, they say you’re warm – there must be a fire somewhere. The Sun is fire and it sustains our solar system. We need to thank the fire within us for our sustenance. Also we offer all our negativity to the fire to be consumed. So 'swaha' means ‘my offering to you’ - we are acknowledging the existence of the fire within us. When we have a temperature, we get hot, over-fired. The nadis in our body are blocked, causing a heat buildup, we call it a 'high temperature'.
So, this is how fire worship came about. Food is sometimes also offered. Fire is the only thing that consumes anything completely. That is one aspect. The other aspect is – what is offered to the fire during many fire ceremonies, including the Gayathri Maha Yajna, is called samaghri – a mixture of herbs from the Himalayas. By burning it, we inhale the smoke and it clears our nadis. How the herbs are picked is also interesting. In India, priests ask the plants if they can be plucked, only the plants that lean forward are picked. After five-thirty in the evening, no plants will lean forward. Plants are not to be picked in the evening. The Tulsi plant (Holy Basil) in South Africa is one such plant. There should be four-hundred-and-eight herbs in every hawan mixture. We mix our own herbs to use. That’s where the Gayathri Peedam is different. Your whole energy system is healed by this practise.
(Excerpt from a talk on Divine Mother, October 2007)
