Gayatri Jayanti: Festival, Carnival, Images, Facts, Mantra, Account, Narration
Well, the festival, Gayatri Jayanti, is a very important and sacred Hindu festival, which is in this whole nation, observes and celebrates with huge enthusiasm and zeal.
In the month of June, we all celebrate the festival, Gayatri Jayanti, which is as per name goes, dedicates to the Goddess, Gayatri, one of the important Hindu deity.
Well, the Hindu Goddess, Gayatri (Sanskrit: गायत्री, IAST:gāyatrī) is the personified form of the very famous and the very popular, Hindu mantra, Gayatri Mantra.
The Gayatri Mantra is a hymn from Vedic texts, and this one is also a very important mantra indeed, which is most of the Hindu people, chant on a daily basis.
The Goddess, Gayatri, is also known as Savitri and Vedamata (mother of Vedas). Well, the Goddess, Gayatri, is often associated with Savitr, means, the solar deity in the Vedas, Wikipedia mentioned.
It is mentioned in the Wikipedia, I read the same there, that the Saivite texts recognize the Mata Gayatri as the consort of Lord Shiva.
The Goddess, Gayatri, can be seen, in the image and picture, with the five heads and ten hands, and it is also mentioned in the Skand Puran, which I read in the Wikipedia, that, the Mata Gayatri is the consort of the Lord Brahma, one of the supreme, God of the Religion Hinduism.
Gayatri Jayanti: Festival, Carnival, Images, Facts, Mantra, Account, Narration
The Gayatri Mantra
ॐ भूर् भुवः सुवः ।
तत्स॑वि॒तुर्वरेण्यं॒
भर्गो॑ दे॒वस्य॑धीमहि ।
धियो॒ यो नः॑ प्रचो॒दया॑त् ॥
On the day of the festival, Gayatri Jayanti day, it is believed that the sage Vishwamitra first uttered Gayatri Mantra.
While, some other people also believe that Goddess Gayatri, the Mother of Vedas, was arrived, come and appeared on the Earth, on the day, of the festival, Gayatri Jayanti, and the festival, Gayatri Jayanti, is being celebrated in the memory of that event, which is also indeed and certainly, defined and touted as the very special and also incredible one.
