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Originally Posted by Eelco
I just spend 3 days immersed in the Gayatri and the love of Shantimayi..
I've known the Gayatri Mantra for 23 years.
Never known before that she had been personified by a deity..
Ah..
With Love
Eelco
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According to the vedic purists, Gayatri isn't/cannot be personified according to the Rig Ved and the Gayatri Mantra is basically a hymn to the solar deity called Savituh (Hiranyagharba) however, the female form of Savituh is called Savitri, which is also synonymous with Gayatri and hence, the manifested energies of the Solar Deity also became personified, however as in the case of Hindu deification, all aspects of the 'wives' of the Trimurti, can be as interchangeable as their masculine conterparts, with Sarasvati representing Sattva Guna, Lakshmi representing Raja Guna and Kali representing Tamoguna....and thus, when they all join up to form Tripurasundari (also called Rajarajeshwari), they collectively take form as the Goddess, Gayatri...however, just like Sadashiva, She has 5 heads to represent the 5 senses and the 5 elemental tattwas to illustrate she incorporates and transcends all of them through her existence, so in another way, as the Saguna form of Shiva is transcended to become Sadashiva (beyond Shiva), the Saguna form of Parvati is transcended to become Para Shakti as opposed to Apara Shakti at the macrocosmic level.