Devibhagavatapurana 12.4: caturtho'dhyāyaḥ | gāyatrīhṛdayam

12.4.1

nārada uvāca |
bhagavan devadeveśa bhūtabhavyajagatprabho |
kavacaṃ ca śrutaṃ divyaṃ gāyatrīmantravigraham ||

12.4.2

adhunā śrotumicchāmi gāyatrīhṛdayaṃ param |
yaddhāraṇādbhavetyuṇyaṃ gāyatrījapato'khilam ||

12.4.3

śrīnārāyaṇa uvāca |
devyāśca hṛdayaṃ proktaṃ nāradātharvaṇe sphuṭam |
tadevāhaṃ pravakṣyāmi rahasyātirahasyakam ||

Nârâyana said:-- O Nârada! This subject on the Hridaya of Gâyatrî is explicitly written in the Atharva Veda. Now I will speak on that, the great secret, in detail. Listen. First, consider the Gâyatrî, the Devî, the Mother of the Vedas as of a Cosmic Form (Virâ trupâ) and meditate all the Devas as residing on Her Body. Now in as much as the Pinda and Brahmânda are similar, consider yourself as of the form of the Devî and meditate within yourself on the Devatâs, thus:-- The Pundits, the Knowers of the Vedas, say this:-- He is not yet fit to worship the Deva and he is not an Adhikârî 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:-- O Nârada! Now I will speak on the Hridaya of Gâyatrî, knowing which every man becomes able to become all the Devas. Listen. The Risi of this Gâyatrî Hridaya is Nârâyana; the Chhandas is Gâyatrî; and S’rî Parames'varî Gâyatrî is the Devatâ. Perform the Nyâsa of this as mentioned before and taking your seat in a lonely place, meditate intently on the Devî with your heart and head well collected. Now I am speaking of the Arthanyâsa. Hear. Meditate on the Devatâ Dyau on your head; the twin As'vins on the rows of the teeth; the two Sandhyâs on your upper and lower lips; the Agni, Fire, within your mouth; Sarasvatî, on the tongue; Brihaspati on the neck; the eight Vasus on the two breasts; the Vâyus, on the two arms;

the Paryanya Deva on the heart; Âkâs'a, on the belly; Antarîksam (the middle space) on the navel; Indra and Agni, on the loins; Prajâpati, the condensed form, as it were, of Vijñâna, on the hip joints; the Kailâs'a and the Malaya mountains on the two thighs; the Visvedevâs on the two knees; Vis'vâmitra on the shanks; the Sun's northern and southern paths, the Uttarâyana and Daksinâyana on the anus; the Pitris on the thighs; the Earth on the legs; the Vanaspati on the fingers and toes; the Risis on the hairs of the body; the Muhûrtas 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 Gâyatrî, 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 Gâyatrî, residing in the Morning Sun” and “I bow down to all.” O Nârada! Whoever recites this Gâyatrî 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 Tîrthas; 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-Brahmachâri recites this, he will become a Brahmachârî. O Nârada! What more shall I say to you of the results of Gâyatrî Hridaya than this:-- that whoever will study this will acquire the fruits of performing thousand sacrifices and repeating the Gâyatrî sixty thousand times. In fact, he will get Siddhi by this. The Brâhmâna, who daily reads this in the morning will be freed of all the sins and go upwards to the Brahmâ (Loka) and is glorified there. This has been uttered by Bhagavân Nârâyana Himself. Here ends the Fourth Chapter of the Twelfth Book on Gâyatrî Hridaya in the Mahâpurânam S’rî Mad Devî Bhâgavatam of 18,000 verses by Maharsi Veda Vyâsa.

12.4.4

virāḍrūpāṃ mahādevīṃ gāyatrīṃ vedamātaram |
dhyātvā tasyāstvathāṅgeṣu dhyāyedetāśca devatāḥ ||

12.4.5

piṇḍabrahmāṇḍayoraikyādbhāvayetsvatanau tathā |
devīrūpe nije dehe tanmayatvāya sādhakaḥ ||

12.4.6

nādevo'bhyarcayeddevamiti vedavido viduḥ |
tato'bhedāya kāye sve bhāvayeddevatā imāḥ ||

12.4.7

atha tatsampravakṣyāmi tanmayatvamatho bhavet |
gāyatrīhṛdayasyāsyāpyahameva ṛṣiḥ smṛtaḥ ||

12.4.8

gāyatrīcchanda uddiṣṭaṃ devatā parameśvarī |
pūrvoktena prakāreṇa kuryādaṅgāni ṣaṭkramāt |
āsane vijane deśe dhyāyedekāgramānasaḥ ||

12.4.12.4

nyāsaḥ dyaurmūrdhni daivataṃ | dantapaṅktāvaśvinau | ubhe sandhye coṣṭhau | mukhamagniḥ | jihvā sarasvatī | grīvāyāṃ tu bṛhaspatiḥ | stanayorvasavo'ṣṭau | bāhvormarutaḥ | hṛdaye parjanyaḥ | ākāśamudaraṃ | nābhāvantarikṣaṃ | 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 | sāyamprātaradhīyāno 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 ||