The dīksā of Gayatri Mantra Sadhanā and the yagyopavita samskāra (thread ceremony) are intermittently linked with dedication to a noble Guru. The Gayatri Mantra is referred as the Guru Mantra. In the times of yore, the children used to go to the gurukuls for comprehensive education and training and ideal personality development. The learning of Vedas used to begin there with the dīksā of Gayath as the Guru Mantra. Today we may find lots of fake guruş and their variegating, arbitrary guru mantras. But in the ancient age of the divine Indian Culture, the Gāyatri Mantra alone was revered for dīksā.
Dedication to the spiritual master (guru) helps cultivation and development of śraddhā and viśwāsa – the essential elements for the success of Gayatri Sadhanā. The activities associated with the rituals of upāsanā would be sheer mechanical acts if devoid of śraddhā and viśwāsa. Without the inner support of these two, the observance of the desired disciplines too would only remain like daydreaming. The sublime linkage between the guru and the disciple is sustained and strengthened by the śraddha and viśwāsa of the latter…. This is what enables the progress and accomplishment of the sādhanā. As the initial practices with bows and arrows gradually helps a warrior develop into an intrepid archer, the initial sentiments of śraddha and viśwäsa on the guru also grow and endow the disciple’s heart with immense devotion to divinity and thy love…
In some scriptures, there is a mention of a ‘curse’ of Maharshi Vashishtha and Vishwamitra on the (sādhanā.of) Gayatri Mantra and it is said that only those who remove this constraint could proceed with Gayatri Sādhanā. This rhetoric description signifies the secret that Gayatri Sadhana should be endeavored with due disciplines under the protection and adept guidance of an experienced, spiritually elevated guru. The word Vashishtha (Vasiṣṭha) means – outstanding sagacity, pious excellence. Those accomplishing the sādhanā of 125 lacs of Gayatri Mantra Japa were bestowed with the title of Vašiştha in the Vedic Age. “Liberation from the curse of the great vedic rishi Vashishtha” implies that the diksā of Gayatri Mantra should be taken from a guru who is endowed with the qualities and experience of the level of “Vasistha”. Vishwamitra means the mitra (friend) of the viswa (whole world). The aforesaid rhetoric scriptural saying further implies that the noble guru for the dīksā of Gayatri Mantra should be an altruist, duty-bound saintly sādhaka who loves all and cares for global welfare.
Dīksā blessed by such a siddha guru who possesses the virtues of being Vasiṣṭha and Viswamitra, alone can activate the Gayatri Śakti in the mantra. Gayatrī Sādhanā endeavored as per his teachings would be perfect and beatified…. Śraddha and viśwāsa and devout practices of mantra japa too would not be complete unless initiated by such a noble guru of Gayatri Vidya. Having the beatitude of a siddha guru of Gayatrī Vidyā is like a propulsion that almost flies the disciple half the path of dedicated sādhana in the beginning itself. This is what is reflected in the poetic phrase of “emancipation from the curse” There should be no doubt or misinterpretation of the scriptural mention after the aforesaid decipheration. It is indeed a perennial truth that no power in the cosmos could ‘curse’ or ‘restrain’ the Omnipotent, Absolute, Adi Sakti Gāyatrī.
Gayatri Sadhana initiated by the dikśā through noble guru proceeds with extraordinary spiritual support. In the twentieth century, Vedmurti Pt. Shriram Sharma Acharya is revered as most authentic, pre-eminent, siddha guru for the dīksā of Gayatri Mantra. His life was absolutely devoted to Gayatri Sadhana. He had scrupulously accomplished the devout sādhanā of twenty-four mahāpurascaraṇas of a divine endeavor attempted on this earth for the first time since the Vedic Age of Vashishtha and Vishwamitra. The thinking, feelings and deeds of this noble spiritual master, saint and sagacious scholar were unified with the altruist sentiment of global welfare. His heart breathed to love all beings. This pioneer of the renaissance of the almost lost or forbidden Gayatri Vidyā was indeed the Vashishtha and Vishwamitra of this era. Millions of sādhakas were enlightened and blessed by him in Gāyatrī Sādhanā without any discrimination of sex, caste, cult or social status.
After voluntarily shedding the sheath of his physical body in 1990, this angelic devotee of Gayatrī, is active with ever stronger and expanded spiritual force in his subtle and astral body. Devoted disciples and seekers of absolute knowledge of Gayatri constantly experience and receive his subliminal guidance, protection and guidance. Likewise the millions of sādhakas across the globe, who were blessed by his sublime power after 1990, all aspirants of Gayatri Vidyā may receive the mantra-dīksā from his divine presence in the “dīksā-samskaras” organized by the enlightened representatives of the Gayatri Pariwar. And commence the Upāsanā- Sādhanā of the Gayatri Mantra with inner faith….
Source: Gayatri Sadhana – Why and How?
