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Chapter 4

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Twelfth Skandha · Chapter 4

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गायत्रीहृदयम् नारद उवाच भगवन् देवदेवेश भूतभव्यजगत्प्रभो । कवचं च श्रुतं दिव्यं गायत्रीमन्त्रविग्रहम् ॥ १ ॥ अधुना श्रोतुमिच्छामि गायत्रीहृदयं परम् । यद्धारणाद्‍भवेत्युण्यं गायत्रीजपतोऽखिलम् ॥ २ ॥ श्रीनारायण उवाच देव्याश्च हृदयं प्रोक्तं नारदाथर्वणे स्फुटम् । तदेवाहं प्रवक्ष्यामि रहस्यातिरहस्यकम् ॥ ३ ॥ विराड्रूपां महादेवीं गायत्रीं वेदमातरम् । ध्यात्वा तस्यास्त्वथाङ्‌गेषु ध्यायेदेताश्च देवताः ॥ ४ ॥ पिण्डब्रह्माण्डयोरैक्याद्‍भावयेत्स्वतनौ तथा । देवीरूपे निजे देहे तन्मयत्वाय साधकः ॥ ५ ॥ नादेवोऽभ्यर्चयेद्देवमिति वेदविदो विदुः । ततोऽभेदाय काये स्वे भावयेद्देवता इमाः ॥ ६ ॥ अथ तत्सम्प्रवक्ष्यामि तन्मयत्वमथो भवेत् । गायत्रीहृदयस्यास्याप्यहमेव ऋषिः स्मृतः ॥ ७ ॥ गायत्रीच्छन्द उद्दिष्टं देवता परमेश्वरी । पूर्वोक्तेन प्रकारेण कुर्यादङ्‌गानि षट्क्रमात् । आसने विजने देशे ध्यायेदेकाग्रमानसः ॥ ८ ॥ न्यासः द्यौर्मूर्ध्नि दैवतम् । दन्तपङ्‌क्तावश्विनौ । उभे सन्ध्ये चोष्ठौ । मुखमग्निः । जिह्वा सरस्वती । ग्रीवायां तु बृहस्पतिः । स्तनयोर्वसवोऽष्टौ । बाह्वोर्मरुतः । हृदये पर्जन्यः । आकाशमुदरम् । नाभावन्तरिक्षम् । कट्यो- रिन्द्राग्नी । जघने विज्ञानघनः प्रजापतिः । कैलास- मलये ऊरू । विश्वेदेवा जान्वोः । जङ्‌घायां कौशिकः । गुह्यमयने । ऊरू पितरः । पादौ पृथिवी । वनस्पत- योऽङ्‌गुलीषु । ऋषयो रोमाणि । नखानि मुहूर्तानि । अस्थिषु ग्रहाः । असृङ्‌मांसमृतवः । संवत्सरा वै निमिषम् । अहोरात्रावादित्यश्चन्द्रमाः । प्रवरां दिव्यां गायत्रीं सहस्रनेत्रां शरणमहं प्रपद्ये । ॐ तत्सवितुर्वरेण्याय नमः । ॐ तत्पूर्वाजयाय नमः । तत्प्रातरादित्याय नमः । तत्प्रातरादित्यप्रतिष्ठायै नमः । प्रातरधीयानो रात्रिकृतं पापं नाशयति । सायमधीयानो दिवसकृतं पापं नाशयति । सायंप्रातरधीयानो अपापो भवति । सर्वतीर्थेषु स्नातो भवति । सर्वैर्देवैर्ज्ञातो भवति । अवाच्यवचनात्पूतो भवति । अभक्ष्यभक्षणात्पूतो भवति । अभोज्यभोजनापूतो भवति । अचोष्यचोष- णात्पूतो भवति । असाध्यसाधनात्पूतो भवति । दुष्प्रतिग्रहशतसहस्रात्पूतो भवति । सर्वप्रतिग्रहात्पूतो भवति । पङ्‌क्तिदूषणात्पूतो भवति । अनृतवचनात्पूतो भवति । अथाब्रह्मचारी ब्रह्मचारी भवति । अनेन हृदयेनाधीतेन क्रतुसहस्रेणेष्टं भवति । षष्टिशत- सहस्रगायत्र्या जप्यानि फलानि भवन्ति । अष्टौ ब्राह्मणान्सम्यग्ग्राहयेत् । तस्य सिद्धिर्भवति । य इदं नित्यमधीयानो ब्राह्मणः प्रातः शुचिः सर्वपापैः प्रमुच्यत इति । ब्रह्मलोके महीयते । इत्याह भगवान् श्रीनारायणः । इति श्रीमद्देवीभागवते महापुराणेऽष्टादशसाहस्र्यां संहितायां द्वादशस्कन्धे गायत्रीहृदयं नाम चतुर्थोऽध्यायः ॥ ४ ॥

gāyatrīhṛdayam nārada uvāca bhagavan devadeveśa bhūtabhavyajagatprabho | kavacaṃ ca śrutaṃ divyaṃ gāyatrīmantravigraham || 1 || adhunā śrotumicchāmi gāyatrīhṛdayaṃ param | yaddhāraṇād‍bhavetyuṇyaṃ gāyatrījapato'khilam || 2 || śrīnārāyaṇa uvāca devyāśca hṛdayaṃ proktaṃ nāradātharvaṇe sphuṭam | tadevāhaṃ pravakṣyāmi rahasyātirahasyakam || 3 || virāḍrūpāṃ mahādevīṃ gāyatrīṃ vedamātaram | dhyātvā tasyāstvathāṅ‌geṣu dhyāyedetāśca devatāḥ || 4 || piṇḍabrahmāṇḍayoraikyād‍bhāvayetsvatanau tathā | devīrūpe nije dehe tanmayatvāya sādhakaḥ || 5 || nādevo'bhyarcayeddevamiti vedavido viduḥ | tato'bhedāya kāye sve bhāvayeddevatā imāḥ || 6 || atha tatsampravakṣyāmi tanmayatvamatho bhavet | gāyatrīhṛdayasyāsyāpyahameva ṛṣiḥ smṛtaḥ || 7 || gāyatrīcchanda uddiṣṭaṃ devatā parameśvarī | pūrvoktena prakāreṇa kuryādaṅ‌gāni ṣaṭkramāt | āsane vijane deśe dhyāyedekāgramānasaḥ || 8 || nyāsaḥ dyaurmūrdhni daivatam | dantapaṅ‌ktāvaśvinau | ubhe sandhye coṣṭhau | mukhamagniḥ | jihvā sarasvatī | grīvāyāṃ tu bṛhaspatiḥ | stanayorvasavo'ṣṭau | bāhvormarutaḥ | hṛdaye parjanyaḥ | ākāśamudaram | nābhāvantarikṣam | kaṭyo- rindrāgnī | jaghane vijñānaghanaḥ prajāpatiḥ | kailāsa- malaye ūrū | viśvedevā jānvoḥ | jaṅ‌ghāyāṃ kauśikaḥ | guhyamayane | ūrū pitaraḥ | pādau pṛthivī | vanaspata- yo'ṅ‌gulīṣu | ṛṣayo romāṇi | nakhāni muhūrtāni | asthiṣu grahāḥ | asṛṅ‌māṃsamṛtavaḥ | saṃvatsarā vai nimiṣam | ahorātrāvādityaścandramāḥ | pravarāṃ divyāṃ gāyatrīṃ sahasranetrāṃ śaraṇamahaṃ prapadye | oṃ tatsaviturvareṇyāya namaḥ | oṃ tatpūrvājayāya namaḥ | tatprātarādityāya namaḥ | tatprātarādityapratiṣṭhāyai namaḥ | prātaradhīyāno rātrikṛtaṃ pāpaṃ nāśayati | sāyamadhīyāno divasakṛtaṃ pāpaṃ nāśayati | sāyaṃprātaradhīyāno apāpo bhavati | sarvatīrtheṣu snāto bhavati | sarvairdevairjñāto bhavati | avācyavacanātpūto bhavati | abhakṣyabhakṣaṇātpūto bhavati | abhojyabhojanāpūto bhavati | acoṣyacoṣa- ṇātpūto bhavati | asādhyasādhanātpūto bhavati | duṣpratigrahaśatasahasrātpūto bhavati | sarvapratigrahātpūto bhavati | paṅ‌ktidūṣaṇātpūto bhavati | anṛtavacanātpūto bhavati | athābrahmacārī brahmacārī bhavati | anena hṛdayenādhītena kratusahasreṇeṣṭaṃ bhavati | ṣaṣṭiśata- sahasragāyatryā japyāni phalāni bhavanti | aṣṭau brāhmaṇānsamyaggrāhayet | tasya siddhirbhavati | ya idaṃ nityamadhīyāno brāhmaṇaḥ prātaḥ śuciḥ sarvapāpaiḥ pramucyata iti | brahmaloke mahīyate | ityāha bhagavān śrīnārāyaṇaḥ | iti śrīmaddevībhāgavate mahāpurāṇe'ṣṭādaśasāhasryāṃ saṃhitāyāṃ dvādaśaskandhe gāyatrīhṛdayaṃ nāma caturtho'dhyāyaḥ || 4 ||

English translation

1-2. Narada said O Bhagavan! I have heard from you all about the Kavacha and the Mantra of S’ri Gayatri. O Deva Deva! O Thou, the Knower of the present, the past, and the future! Now tell about the Hridaya, the highest, the interior or esoteric Essence of the Gayatri, holding which, if one repeats the Gayatri, he acquires all the punyam (merits), I am desirous to hear this.

3-8. Narayana said O Narada! This subject on the Hridaya of Gayatri is explicitly written in the Atharva Veda. Now I will speak on that, the great secret, in detail. Listen. First, consider the Gayatri, the Devi, the Mother of the Vedas as of a Cosmic Form (Vira trupa) and meditate all the Devas as residing on Her Body. Now in as much as the Pinda and Brahmanda are similar, consider yourself as of the form of the Devi and meditate within yourself on the Devatas, thus The Pundits, the Knowers of the Vedas, say this He is not yet fit to worship the Deva and he is not an Adhikari as yet who has not been able to make himself a Deva; therefore to establish the knowledge of the oneness of the Deva and himself, he is to meditate the Devas within his body, thus:-0 Narada! Now I will speak on the Hridaya of Gayatri, knowing which every man becomes able to become all the Devas. Listen. The Risi of this Gayatri Hridaya is Narayana; the Chhandas is Gayatri; and S’ri ParamesVari Gayatri is the Devata. Perform the Nyasa of this as mentioned before and taking your seat in a lonely place, meditate intently on the Devi with your heart and head well collected. Now I am speaking of the Arthanyasa. Hear. Meditate on the Devata Dyau on your head; the twin AsVins on the rows of the teeth; the two Sandhyas on your upper and lower lips; the Agni, Fire, within your mouth; Sarasvati, on the tongue;

Brihaspati on the neck; the eight Vasus on the two breasts; the Vayus, on the two arms; the Paryanya Deva on the heart; Akas'a, on the belly; Antariksam (the middle space) on the navel; Indra and

Agni, on the loins; Prajapati, the condensed form, as it were, of Vijhana, on the hip joints; the Kailas'a and the Malaya mountains on the two thighs; the Visvedevas on the two knees; VisVamitra on the shanks; the Sun's northern and southern paths, the Uttarayana and Daksinayana on the anus; the Piths on the thighs; the Earth on the legs; the Vanaspati on the fingers and toes; the Risis on the hairs of the body; the Muhurtas on the nails; the planets on the bones; the Ritus (seasons) on the blood and flesh; the Samvatsaras on the Nimisa (twinkling of eye) the Sun and the Moon on the day and night respectively. Thinking thus, repeat “I take refuge of the Divine Holy Gayatri, the Chief and most Excellent One, the Thousand eyed and I take refuge wholly unto Her.”

Then repeat “I bow down to Tat savitur varenyam,” “I bow down to the Rising Sun on the East,” “I bow down to the Morning Aditya,” “I bow down to the Gayatri, residing in the Morning Sun” and “I bow down to all.” O Narada! Whoever recites this Gayatri Hridaya in the morning finds all the sins committed in the night all destroyed! Whoever recites this in the evening gets his sins of the day all destroyed! Whoever recites this in the evening and in the morning can rest assured to have become free of sins; he gets the fruits of all the Tirthas; he is acquainted with all the Devas; he is saved if he has spoken anything that ought not to have been spoken; if he has eaten anything that is not fit to be eaten; if he has chewn and sucked anything that ought not to have been chewn and sucked; if he has done anything that ought not to have been done and if he has accepted hundreds and thousands of gifts that ought never to have been accepted.

The sins incurred by eating with the others in a line cannot touch him. If he speaks lies, he will not be touched by the sins thereof; even if a non-Brahmachari recites this, he will become a Brahmachari. O Narada! What more shall I say to you of the results

of Gayatri Hridaya than this that whoever will study this will acquire the fruits of performing thousand sacrifices and repeating the Gayatri sixty thousand times. In fact, he will get Siddhi by this. The Brahmana, who daily reads this in the morning will be freed of all the sins and go upwards to the Brahma (Loka) and is glorified there.

This has been uttered by Bhagavan Narayana Himself.

Here ends the Fourth Chapter of the Twelfth Book on Gayatri Hridaya in the Mahapuranam S’ri Mad Devi Bhagavatam of 18,000 verses by Maharsi Veda Vyasa.

Complete chapter-aligned witnesses. Sanskrit Wikisource page 31979, revision 84746 (2016-10-10T12:59:04Z). English is Swami Vijñanananda’s complete 1921–23 public-domain translation, controlled against the archival OCR and its chapter page at https://sacred-texts.com/hin/db/bk12ch04.htm. Historic spelling and transliteration are lightly normalized; no verse-by-verse alignment is asserted.