Swami on the Gayathri Manthra - 1

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Swami on the Gayathri Manthra - 1 Man today spends his life fully preoccupied with worldly concerns. Owing to attachment to the body; he forgets his true nature, is immersed in the affairs of the body as permanent and. makes bodily comforts his goal in life. These are the things which every individual experiences in daily life. If anybody accosts a person and asks him, "Who are you?", out of his identification with the body he gives his name in reply. In answer to further questions he introduces himself as a doctor, a farmer, or student, or the like. When the enquiry goes further, he identifies himself with his nationality as an American, an Indian, a Pakistani or so on. When you examine these answers deeply, you will find that none of them gives the truth. He got his name from his parents. It did not belong to him at birth. His identification with one or other of

his professions is not true because he is not the profession. What, then, is the truth about him? "I am the Aathma. That is my true Self." That is the truth. But people identify themselves with their names, professions and nationality and do not base their lives on the Aathma. No driver of a car identifies with the car. Likewise the body is a car and the Aathma is the driver. Forgetting one's true role as a driver, one is identifying one's self with the body, which is only a vehicle. This truth is emphatically brought out by the Gaayathri manthra. "Dheha budhyaath Dhaasoham" (From the standpoint of the body, I am your instrument, your servant). "Jeevabudhyaath Thvadhamshah" (In the context of the Jeeva, the individual soul, I am a spark of the Divine Thou). "Aathmabudhyaath Thvameva-aham" (In terms of the Aathma I am yourself). When one views one's self from the Aathmik standpoint, one is

identical with the Divine. "I am you and you are me."

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