Gayatri Sadhana
There are three ways to do a Gayatri puruscharana:
The Gayatri Mantra 125,000 times in 40 days
Chanting the mantra 2,400,000 times in 18 months, 24 months or 2 years.
The third and the highest form of puruscharana is undertaken by advanced
practitioners: involves chanting the Gayatri Mantra 32 lac times in usually
takes two years and eight or 3 years.
When can you start: can start this sadhana on any full moon day. the routine in the
morning or at night.
Before undertaking (One day before We must seek permission from divine mother.)
After sunset, take a bath and sit at your alter.
Take a bit of water in right hand and seek her permission that she and other forces of
nature allow to complete the sadhana.
Leave the water next to you.
Do 30 round of Gayatri Mantra with rudraksha beads.
Sleep at the same place.
36 steps of Gayatri Sadhana: (next day wee hours or at night)
1. Bathe
2. Put fresh yellow clothes
3. Entering the sanctum sanctorum: gently tapping the floor with right foot and say
Astra mantra,
“ Om Hrim Astraya Phat”
4. Arrange the pots as shown in diagram:
1. Water for purification (Achamana)
2. Plain water for Arghya
3. Fragrant water for Sugandhita arghya
4. Water for libations (Tarpana)
5. Water for washing (Padyam)
6. Saucer (plate to collect water)
5. (A)Purification : Take a spoon of water in your right hand palm and chant,
Sprinkle the water in your head and around you.
(B)Self-Purification:
1. Put some water in your right hand and say: “Om Keshvaya Namah” & Drink.
2. Put one more spoon and say: “ Om Madhavaya Namah” & Drink.
3. Put one more spoon and say: “ Om Narayanaya Namah” & Drink.
(C) Prakshalana: Put water in right hand and symbolically wash both hands while
saying:
“ Om Pundarikakshaya Namah”
6. Light the lamp and chant:
7. Invoke Ganesha: Chant:
8. Handlocks (GaneshMudra):
9. Chant the vedic hymn (Svastivachan):
10. Meditate on your Guru(Guru Dhyana):
call upon your Guru by offering a flower and chant:
11. Chant Guru mantra:
Could be Ishta mantra or your Sadhana mantra or simply your Guru
name. (11 times)
12. Offer obeisance to all siddhaas:
13. Meditate on your Deity (Ishta Dhyana):
if you pray to a specific God, pray to that deity or simply pray to Ganesha.
14. Chant preliminary mantra:
it is the mantra of your deity. Chant 11, 21 or 31 times of your ishta-devata
mantra.
15.Praying to Mother Earth (Prithvi pooja):
Draw a triangle on the floor, right in front of you with water. We are trying to
invoke masculine mantra so that triangle should point upwards. Put a dot with
water in the middle of triangle and pit a flower on dot and chant:
Express your gratitude to Mother nature, Mother earth and take blessings.
16. Take the vow: It’s done on before day only.
17. Mantra breathing:
With you right thumb, close your right nostril and breathe from left nostril and chant the main
mantra.
Now, close your left nostril by placing index finger and chant your mantra while exhaling.
Keep the same position and inhale while chanting mantra.
Now, chant the mantra while inhaling from right nostril.
Do three rounds of mantra breathing.
18. Application (Viniyoga): Take water in right palm and chant,
leave water in saucer.
19. Purification of hands (kara shuddhi): Chant and show appropriate mudra,
20.Mantra Nyasa: Nyasa of the Sages
Six-Limbed Mantra Nyasa:
Nyasa of the letters:
21. Preliminary mantra chanting:
Chant 16 times the Gayatri mantra.
22.Preliminary Handlocks:
23. Sixteen Offering (shodashopchara):(optional 16,10 or 5)
1. Offer seat: Om Asanam Samarpayami.
2. Welcome deity: Om Swagatam Karomi.
3. Take water from 5 number pot, wash the feet: Om Padyam Samarpayami.
4. Take water from 3 number pot: Om Araghyam Samarpayami.
5. Take water from 2 number pot: Om Achamanam Samarpayami.
6. Honey, Ghee or mixture of honey & milk: Om Madhuparkam Samarpayami.
7. Take water from 2 number pot: Om Achamanam Samarpayami.
8. Take water from 1 number pot, bathing : Om Snanam Samarpayami.
9. Mentally offer red clothes: Om Vastram Samarpayami.
10. Mentally offer Jewellery: Om Alankaram Samarpayami.
11. Offer any fragrant substance flower, sandaleood, perfume:
Om Gandham Samarpayami.
12. Offer flower: Om Pushpam Samarpayami.
13. Offer incense: Om Dhoopam Samarpayami.
14. Offer Deep you have light: Om Deepam Samarpayami.
15. Offer Sweets, fruits, dryfruits, sugar: Om Naivadyam Samarpayami.
16. Pay your respect by join your hands: Om Namaskaram Karomi.
24. Invoke the mantra ( mantra samaskara):
The mantra of Gayatri was cursed by Brahma, Vashishta and
Vishvamitra. Therefore, chant the following mantras seven times every
day before you do the mantra japa.
25.Meditate on your mantra:
Meditate on Mantra roughly five minutes.
26. Mantra chanting: Chant sam e count as you take vow,
Once you done your daily japa,
27.Post japa Handlocks: Gratitude handlocks
28. Offering of chanting: Offer your japa with showing right hand and pray,
29. Freeing all energies (Visarjana): Thanking the energies of your deity who presented,
Allow those to return. Request them prosperity and wisdom tp stay with us, so we may
continue our good karma.
30. Seeking Forgiveness:
31. Fire offering: Arrange 8 bricks like this. Once done make thin layer of sand on it and
sprinkle water.
1. Bath
2. Put fresh cloths(if you are doing immediately after then no need to do step 1 & 2)
3. Put water pot right side for purification.
4. Small container of ghee, wooden spoon keep right side.
5. Keep ingredients (charu) of fire-offering.
6. Repeat step 5 to 13.
7. Place your firewood in fire pit. Lit the fire.
8. Pour ghee using wooden spoon with right hand and
say Swaha.
1. 2.
9. Offer with ingredients (charu) of yajna. Use three fingers and thumb
(keeping index finger away). Your palm should be facing up while making
offering. And say,
1. 2.
10. Make five offering with ghee only:
11. Now make offering with your main mantra.
If your japa 1,25,000 for 30 days.
Daily japa will be 4166. Daily round of chanting will be 40 (38.5) rounds.
Do fire offering of 432 times, 4 rounds should be fire-offering.
12. Make five offering with ghee only:
13.Make the last offering by placing dry coconut filled with ghee and charu in
the middle of fire pit. And chant:
14. Fold your hands and circumambulate the fire pit and chant:
15. Chant the prayer of forgiveness.
16. Close by praying for everyone’s wellbeing.
32. Libations (Tarpana)
Take water of spoon from 4. Pot and chant mantra and add “tarpayami” at the
end of mantra and pour water back into saucer.
Chant 50 times.
33. Coronation ( Marjana)
Take water from 2. Pot. Joining your thumb and ring finger, dip in water and
sprinkle on your head with same mudra.
34. Charity: Do charity on last day as money, food grain or meal to Brahmin or girls.
35. Seeking again forgiveness : repeat 30. Step.
36. Offering water to the Sun.
Requirements for the Sadhana:
1. Yellow cloths to wear.
2. Yellow cloth to cover seat asana.
3. A brass lamp, Incense.
4. Ghee.
5. Wick for your lamp (cotton thread)
6. Flowers
7. Five small water pot, five spoons, a small saucer.
8. Extra small water pot
9. Sweetmeat, sugar or honey
10. Rudraksha or sandalwood beads.
11. Napkin.
12.A lot of Faith, Devotion and Discipline.
Requirements for the Fire-Offering (Yajna):
1. Incense ( if you have already lighten the lamp).
2. Ghee (500gm)
3. Wooden spoon
4. A small water pot
5. Yajna Ingredients
6. 75 gm white sesame seeds
7. 75gm black sesame seeds
8. 75gm rice
9. 50gm paddy. (if available)
10. 50gm dryfruits.
11. Firewood (small sticks of mango, peepal tree)
12. Dry coconut
13. 8 bricks
14. Sand and water
15.All things consider as havan samagri and available on pooja samagri store.
