Significance of the Gayathri Mantra

The Gayathri Mantra is considered the holiest and most potent of mantras. Because it venerates the life-giver and sustainer on Earth; the often taken for-granted Sun.

Below are translations of the Gayathri mantra at three levels

   - First one: When taken literally

   - Second one: When better understood, invocation of the Sun's energy

   - Third one:  Upon truly realizing, invocation of the Sun's powers to influence Life itself.

Dear Sun-God, your Light

It falls on the Sky, the Air, the Earth and the Water

Enlightening all the elements, the living and the non-living.

Dear Sun-God, your Energy (Shakti)

It comes into Us, our Minds, and Bodies

Gives Us a good Personality:

Self-Confidence, Self-Assurance, Will-Power and Guts

It comes into our Mind:

Gives us Concentration, Focus, Mental Stamina

Supreme Thinking, Memory, Learning, Grasp and Application

It comes into our Body:

Gives us Fitness, Energy, Stamina and Vigour

Dear Sun-God, your Power (Shiva)

It graces Us, our Minds, our Bodies and Reproductive systems
It leads us to Spiritual Progress and Good Karmas:

Gives Us a pure Character, peace and contentment

Lights up our Path

It graces our Mind: gives us the Right Attitude,

Empathy, Creativity and Innovation,

Lights up our Memory and Intelligence

It graces our Body:

Gives us good health, freedom from diseases

Graces our Reproductivity:

Gives us Reproductive capability and quality

"Us" above always refers to the true Self, our Self, what is typically referred to our Soul (which is rather confusing: calling our true identity by a different name)