Gayatri Upāsanā is the upāsanā of the Viswamātā, Devamātā, Vedamātā; it is the devotion of the eternal mother…. The deity Gayatrī is worshiped in the idol of a Goddess – the divine mother. Mother’s love for the child is the most sacred, pure and supreme expression of love. Love experienced in other relationships, howsoever intimate or closed might be is not totally devoid of the influence of selfish attachments and expectations. But mother’s love is truly selfless and free from all constraints and perturbations….
Right from the stage of conceiving a child to raising and training him, she bears a lot and gives what all she has for the welfare of the child….; she continues to bless the child with abundant care and love. Her warm love demands no returns, has not expectations…. The saying that “Sons could be bad and ungrateful but the mother is never short in her love….” Elucidates the limitless grandeur of motherhood….
Worshiping God in a mother-form is a salute to the divine nature of motherhood. It also has great psychological benefits…. Devotion develops an emotional relationship between the devotee and the deity…. Needless to say, the intensity of this intimacy is most deep and natural when the devotee regards the deity as divine mother. The latter also responds accordingly and bestows motherly love upon its child – the devotee. As a child feels most secure and happy in the lap of his mother, the
devotee also experiences the same while worshiping the omnipotent divine mother… The immediate psychological impact of this feeling induces soundness in his devotion and liberates the devotee from all tensions, doubts and illusions. When the sādhaka takes shelter in the lap of the Almighty mother Gayatri and devotes himself…, thou too embraces him with equal warmth and enshowers the nectar of divine motherly love….
Womanhood is worship able by men in all its expressions. What a woman gives him as a wife, sister and mother at least deserves his acknowledgement in terms of amity, affection and respect in the respective relations. The science of psychology reveals that man would have been a cruel, harsh, desperate creature living in the primitive state (of civilization), had he not been fostered by the peerless love and aid of woman. The dry and thirsty land is delighted by the cool lashing of rains and
expresses its joy by sprouting fresh greenery….. The serene love and sympathy enshowered by woman similarly nurtures and helps excel the potentials of the man. However, the poison of uncontrolled lust, erogenicity and carnal desires often spoils the nectar-like effect that could be generated by healthy cooperation in a couple…. The familial and social relations between men and women would have been far more beneficial for mutual welfare and progress had the purity of thoughts and affectionate emotions been insulated from the insidious sensuous passions. The toxic of licentious attitude and eroticism converts the nectar-fruit (of fulfilling relationship) into a deadly poisonous seed….
Gāyatrī Sādhanā is an excellent spiritual remedy to naturally pacify the untoward passions and mental perversions and to purify the emotional fields. Worshiping Mother Gayatrī as Viswamātā – the genesis of motherhood, the symbol of pristine womanhood, gradually invokes sacred feelings and intrinsic respect for womanhood. The sādhaka’s sincere attempts of continence over the sense organs, eliminating mental ailments – especially those driven by concupiscence, and his strive for mental concentration over constructive thoughts succeed effectively with the progress of this spiritual-conditioning. Beastly instincts cannot survive in the heart of a true devotee of motherhood. The upāsanā of Gāyatrī as Viswamātā is the supreme experiment to educe this spiritual elevation.
Source: Gayatri Sadhana – Why and How?
