OM BHUR BHUVA SHUVAH
TAT SAVITHUR VARENYAM
BHARGO DEVASYA DHEMAHI
DHIYO YONAH PRACHODAYAT
Meaning:
Oh Mother, who subsists in all the three Kaalas (Time: Past, Present and Future), in all the three lokas (Lokas: Heaven,
Earth and Lower Regions) and in all the three gunas (Gunas - Attributes: Sathwa, Rajas and Thamas), I pray to Thee, to illumine
my intellect and dispel my ignorance just as the splendorous sunlight dispels all darkness. I pray to
Thee to make my intellect serene and bright and enlightened.
OM - Pranava - The word that is God
BHUH - God who is eternal
BHUVAHA - God who is the creator
SVAHA - God who is Independent
OM TAT - That eternal God
SAVITHUR - That creative principle of light manifested through Sun
VARENYAM - That Supreme God propiated by the highest Gods
BHARGO - That light that bestows wisdom, bliss and everlasting life
DHEVASYA - The light of that effulgent God
DHEEMAHI - we mediate
DHIYO - May our intellect
YO NAHA - Be directed by that lord
PRACHODAYAT - Towards Illumination
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