Gayatri or Any Mantra Sadhana Procedure
One day Before Sadhana:
Take bath in the evening and take some water in your right hand and mentally call the divine mother
Gayatri and seek for permission.
" Devi plz give me the permission and the shakti to complete the Gayatri sadhana" and leave the
water in the plate next to you.
Chant 1 hr of the mantra. Sleep in the same place where you chanted the mantra.
Steps to perform:
1. Bathe : While putting the first mug of water on you chant this
गंगा च यमुने चैव गोदावरी सरस्वती | नर्मदे सिंधु कावेरी जलेस्मिन संनिधिम कु रु ||
2. Put fresh clothes. Try to wash them as much as possible. Dont reuse the same clothes.
3. Keep some water in a pot. Purification of surroudings. Sprinkle water in all directions and during
this chant
Om apavitrah pavitro va
sarvavastham gato api va
yah smaret pundarikaksam
Sa bahaya abhyantaram sucih
[Link]. For purifying body, mind and consciousness.
Keep water in a small glass. Use spoon and put one spoon of water in right hand and say
Om Keshavaya Namah (drink the water)
Repeat for
Om Madhavaya Namah
Om Narayanaya Namah
Put one more spoon of water in the right hand and say
Om Pundarikakshaya Namah and wash your hands on the left side
5. Light a lamp now using match box and seasame oil.
6. Invoke Ganeshji. Om Gam Ganapateya Namah (11 times) and then Vakratunda mahakaya...
(once)
7. Take Sankalpa. Do it only on the first [Link] some water in your hand and some rice
Generic Sankalpa for all mantras
I Yogesh Deepak Kulkarni born in Shandilya gotra on 28May 1983 hereby vow to do a
purushcharana of … (the name of your mantra, like Gayatri, Sri Suktam, Guru Mantra, etc.) … over
the next … (state the number of days you’ll be chanting the mantra and x number of times per day
OR x hrs per day.
“I, Yogesh Deepak Kulkarni person am taking a vow of chanting daily 1080 number of times over
the next 60 number of days. I’m doing this for the Grace of Vedmata Gayatri.”
Or, if you have taken a sankalpa of chanting, let’s say,one hour every day, then you will say,
“I, Yogesh Deepak Kulkarni, will chant the Gayatri mantra for 1 hr every day for the next 60
number of days. I’m doing this for the Grace of Vedmata Gayatri.”
I also do this for - getting blessings to build or renovate temple (say 1) in India and support patients
who need kidney transplants.
Give me more wealth for the same and to take care of my parents. Plz give me moksha. Totally
reduce my bone pain and give me good health.
Then put the water + rice in the plate used and pour it to a tree on the same day.
Ensure you dont compromise for the committed hrs , else restart from scratch.
8. Actual mantra chanting as per sankalpa.
9. Japa samarpana. Offer japa to deity. Visualize the deity Vedmata Gayatri and give it to her in her
left hand and say "I offer all my japa to you"
Abhishta siddhim me dehi
sharanagata vatsale bhaktya
samarpaye tubhyam
japamevarcanam
and then say:
“Sarve bhavantu sukhina, sarve santu niramaya, sarve Bhadrani paschyanti, maa kaschida dukha
bhaga bhavet.”
OR say May everybody be at peace in this beautiful world.
10. Ask for forgiveness for any errors or mistakes.
Say this "I have made countless mistakes during my chant, please look upon me as Your humble
servant and forgive me. I don’t know the mantras, I don’t know the correct pronunciation, I am an
ignorant person, and yet I have the audacity to pray to You because You are ever merciful, You still
fulfill my wishes."
Gayatri mantra:
ॐ भूर्भुवः स्वः
तत्सवितुर्वरेण्यम
भर्गो देवस्य धीमहि।
धियो यो नः प्रचोदयात॥
oṃ bhūrbhuvaḥ svaḥ
tatsaviturvareṇyama
bhargo devasya dhīmahi।
dhiyo yo naḥ pracodayāta॥
