गायत्री मन्त्र शब्दार्थ एवं भावार्थ

जो गय (प्राणों) की रक्षा करती है – वह गायत्री है। प्राण कहते हैं चैतन्यता एवं सजीवता को । हमारे भीतर जो गति, क्रिया, विचार शक्ति, विवेक एवं जीवन धारण करने वाला तत्व है- वह प्राण कहलाता है । इस प्राण के कारण ही हम जीवित हैं । प्राण शक्ति बढ़ाने, इसको सुरक्षित रखने, इसके निरर्थक व्यय/ ह्रास को रोकने- सभी में गायत्री मन्त्र जाप एवं गायत्री साधना हमारी सहायता करती है

ॐ भूर्भुवः॒ स्वः ।तत्स॑वितुर्वरे॑ण्यंभ॒र्गो॑ दे॒वस्य॑ धीमहि ।धियो॒ यो नः॑ प्रचो॒दया॑त् ॥

Oṃ bhūr bhuvaḥ svaḥtát savitúr váreṇ(i)yaṃbhárgo devásya dhīmahidhíyo yó naḥ pracodáyāt

Gayatri Mantra meaning in Hindi

1. ऊँकार(अकार,उकार, मकार) को ब्रह्म कहा गया है। वह परमात्मा का स्वयंसिद्ध नाम है। इस शब्द ब्रह्म से रूप बनता है। इसी के भ्रमण, कम्पन, गति और मोड़ के आधार पर ‘स्वस्तिक’ बनता है। यह स्वस्तिक ऊँकार का रूप है। ऊँकार को ‘ प्रणव ‘ भी कहते हैं। यही सब मन्त्रों का हेतु है, क्योंकि इसी से सभी शब्द और मन्त्र बनते हैं।

2. गायत्री मन्त्र में ऊँकार के पश्चात् – भूः भुवः स्वः – यह तीन व्याह्रतियाँ आती हैं। व्याह्रतियों का यह त्रिक् अनेकों बातों की ओर संकेत करता है। ब्रह्मा, विष्णु और महेश इन तीन उत्पादक, पोषक, संहारक शक्तियों का नाम भूः भुवः स्वः है। सत, रज,तम इन तीन गुणों को भी त्रिविध गायत्री कहा गया है। भूः को ब्रह्म, भुवः को प्रकृति और स्वः को जीव भी कहा जाता है। अग्नि, वायु और सूर्य इन तीन प्रधान देवताओं का भी प्रतिनिधित्व यह तीन व्याह्रतियाँ करती हैं। तीनों लोकों का भी इनमें संकेत है। एक ऊँ की तीन संतान हैं- भूः भुवः स्वः ।

3. तत्- उस, वह का सूचक है। यह शब्द परमात्मा- परब्रह्म की ओर संकेत करता है। मन्त्र में तत् शब्द का प्रयोग अनिर्वचनीय ईश्वर की ओर संकेत करने हेतु प्रयोग किया गया है।

4. सवितुः – सविता सूर्य को कहते हैं, जो तेजस्वी एवं प्रकाश मान है। परमात्मा की अनन्त शक्तियाँ हैं। उनमें तेजस्वी शक्तियों को सविता कहा गया है। ईश्वर की तेज शक्ति को धारण करके हम जीवन के प्रत्येक क्षेत्र में सर्वांग पूर्ण तेज युक्त बनें।

5. वरेण्य- श्रेष्ठतम को वरण करने, चुनने, ग्रहण करने योग्य को, धारण करने योग्य को वरेण्य कहा गया है। ईश्वरीय सत्ता में से गायत्री द्वारा हम उन तत्वों को ग्रहण करते हैं जो वरेण्य हैं, श्रेष्ठ हैं, ग्रहण करने योग्य हैं। धर्म, कर्तव्य, अध्यात्म, सत्,चित्, आनन्द, सत्य, शिव, सुन्दर की ओर जो तत्व हमें अग्रसर करते हैं- वे वरेण्य हैं।

6. भर्ग – बुराइयों का, अज्ञान अन्धकार का नाश कर देने, भस्म/ जला देनेवाली परमात्मा की शक्ति ‘भर्ग’ कहलाती है। हम भर्ग को अपने में धारण कर बुराइयों, पापों, दुर्बलताओं, कुपप्रवृत्तियों से सावधान रहें और उन्हें नष्ट करने के लिए सदा धर्मयुद्ध करते रहें।

7. देवस्य – देव कहते हैं दिव्य को, अलौकिक को, असाधारण को। जो अपने शक्ति/ सामर्थ्य को परमार्थ, दूसरों की सेवा में लगाने, देते रहने की इच्छा करते हैं, वे देवता हैं।

8. धीमहि कहते हैं ध्यान करने को। जिस वस्तु का हम ध्यान करते हैं- उस पर मन जमता है- इससे उसमें रुचि उत्पन्न होती है, जिससे उसे प्राप्त करने की आकांक्षा बढ़ती है, अतः प्रयत्न उत्पन्न होता है और यह प्रयत्न अभीष्ट वस्तु को प्राप्त करा देता है। ध्यान बीज है और सफलता उसका फल।

9. धियः – आत्मा को सर्वाधिक आवश्यकता सद्बुद्धि की पड़ती है- इसी को धियः कहते हैं। गायत्री में इसी की प्राप्ति की प्रार्थना की जाती है।

10. यः (यो) का अर्थ है ‘जो’ । यह ‘जो’ का संकेत अनिर्वचनीय परमात्मा के लिए है। जो परमात्मा उपरोक्त शक्तियों/ गुणों वाला है वह हमारे लिए धियः तत्व (सद्बुद्धि) प्रदान करे।

11. नः का अर्थ है ‘हम लोगों का’ – हमारा। मन्त्र में परमात्मा से सद्बुद्धि की प्रार्थना/ याचना की गई है। पर वह अकेले अपने लिए नहीं की गई है वरन् विस्तृत ‘हम’ के लिए की गई है। हम सबको सद्बुद्धि मिले। मेरे अन्तर्जगत और वाह्य जगत में सर्वत्र सद्बुद्धि का प्रकाश हो – ऐसी प्रार्थना भगवान से की जाती है।

12. प्रचोदयात् का अर्थ है प्रेरणा करना, बढ़ाना। यह कहकर परमात्मा से बुद्धि को प्रेरित करने की याचना की गई है। जिससे उत्साहित होकर हम अपने अन्तःकरण का निर्माण करने में जुट जावें। अपनी कु-बुद्धि से लड़कर उसे परास्त करें और सुबुद्वि की स्थापना का पुरुषार्थ दिखावें।

सद्बुद्धि की ‘अन्तःप्रेरणा’ ईश्वर से ही प्राप्त होती है । परन्तु यह सद्बुद्धि भी अपने प्रयत्न से ही आती है, इसके लिए संयम, व्रत-उपवास, स्वाध्याय, सत्संग, ध्यान, प्रार्थना, सेवा आदि सद्कर्मों का आश्रय लेना पड़ता है।

COMING into office on the crest of populist clamour it was natural
for Rauf Aregbesola, Governor of Osun State, to respond to
public adulation via a populist gesture.

And this he did with his Osun Youth Empowerment Scheme or
OYES for short. Aside the populist strain in Mr. Aregbesola’s
establishment of OYES, one is persuaded that OYES was also
a deliberate act on his part.

This is owing to observable attempt in current
governance in Osun to return politics to how it was practised in a
bygone but much loved era in Western Nigeria. Aregbesola was not
one of those Nigerians directly nurtured and weaned by Chief Obafemi Awolowo but he seems very fascinated by the ideology of the father of Nigeria’s welfare politics.

Aregbesola appears to be a conscious follower of Awolowo,
at least in his utterances which are weighted in a welfarist direction, to
say nothing of the daily playback of the UPN anthem on the Osun State radio since the present government came into
office. The Unity Party of Nigeria, founded and led by Chief Awolowo, was easily
Nigeria’s most ideologically rooted party from between 1978 when it
was founded on the eve of the lifting of
the ban on politics and 1983 when Chief Awolowo last contested for the presidency on the platform of the party.

Despite claims by members of such parties as the Social Democratic Party, the Alliance for Democracy and
even the Action Congress of Nigeria to being reincarnations
of the UPN, it is obvious to many that the idea of ideologically-guided politics has
been on a long retreat in Nigeria.

The closest we can come to that era is to assess politicians on the basis of their individual actions.
It’s in that sense that Ogbeni (as he prefers to be called) Rauf Aregbesola can be called
an Awoist, meaning a follower of Awolowo’s politics.

But since he came into office last year, much of what Aregbesola has in terms of his practice of Awolowo’s politics resides yet in the realm of intention than actual execution. In other words, there is as
yet not much to point to on the ground with regards to the welfarist claims or posture of his
government. Perhaps this should not be too surprising given the fact that the ACN government in Osun crossed the 100 days mark not long
ago.

The OYES programme is, however, one of the more
obvious gestures of the Aregbesola administration in the direction of welfare government.
Noble as the intention behind the scheme might seem,
its execution is flawed in certain respects.

We may need to remind ourselves of the idea behind the scheme
before I go on to highlight what could be fine-tuned
about the scheme. As the name suggests, the OYES idea
was conceived as a youth empowerment project. Recognising
the high rate of youth unemployment in Osun State, the present government on assumption of
duty, promised to provide jobs for no less than 20,000 employable youths on its
one hundredth day in office. Well over 200,
000 youths applied when call went out for application early
this year.

The definition of ‘employable’ youth is not too
clear. But it is generally understood that among the present beneficiaries of the programme many are said to be possessors of higher degrees they wisely refuse to declare in order to qualify for employment.
Such is the desperation among the youths that anything that could be remotely defined as salaried job is jumped at and
is considered better than nothing. As we like to put it in popular parlance here,
‘at all, at all na im bad’.

So people learn to make do with little crumbs in the face of nothing.
And the OSun State government should be commended for this gesture.
But what is the nature of the employment
that these youths are offered? Essentially what are they employed to do?

Most times they move around in groups in their mostly
oversized new, brown overalls. The uniform looks too clean for
the nature of work they do which is mostly related to sanitation.

The OYES workers are mostly to be seen on road sides, moving languidly in groups as they pick refuse (papers, cans, cellophane, etc) and other types of wastes.
Even when it’s yet morning they look exhausted,
it seems, by the very nature of the work they are required to perform.
Other times, you see them on isolated parts of the highway cutting the overgrown grasses
on the sides like chain gangs. Some who constitute
the straggling groups, obviously nursing mothers or married women, strap their children to their backs or hold
them in their arms while wielding some crude stick or rod with which they probe
the undergrowth for wastes.

The entire lot look too many for the work they do.

While the idea behind this scheme might be noble, the picture evoked by the youths engaged in the programme is that
of an unhappy lot. I don’t want to believe that the best way to empower university and polytechnic graduates, many
of them parents in their own right, is by reducing them to the level of stick or cutlass-wielding children who go around
picking papers or cutting grass on road sides.
Labour shouldn’t be so devoid of its dignity.

Given their level of education and the variety of it,
the OYES youths can be better employed in other sectors of Osun State.
One obvious area is teaching. In a meeting with World Bank officials earlier
in the year, Ogbeni Aregbesola made the point that Osun State needs no less than N6 billion to revamp
her education.

It’s reasonable to think that one area where such funds would be expended would be on the
employment and training of teachers. Here the OYES youth
can assist primary and secondary school teachers presently in the employ of the State.
Those not able to or are uninterested in teaching can serve in some other administrative capacities, say
revenue collection or related municipal responsibilities that are presently the province of half-baked hangers-on whose only qualification is their connections to local politicians.

Yes, people are needed to pick refuse from the roads and cut grasses in order to keep the environment clean but those
should be jobs for less qualified people, and such people should be better trained
and equipped with modern equipment not sticks and cutlasses.
A lot of the tasks on which we expend raw human labour can be better handled by machines controlled by man.

This is not the era when people should have to spend the
little money they earn working on pain relievers. Nigerian youths deserve
better than this and with his avowed commitment to welfare politics and the genuineness of his action so far, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola can be in the vanguard
of the creation of a truly empowering society for our youths.

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Yohaig NG

24 July 2017 at 8:53 AM

COMING into office on the crest of populist clamour it was natural
for Rauf Aregbesola, Governor of Osun State, to respond to
public adulation via a populist gesture.

And this he did with his Osun Youth Empowerment Scheme or
OYES for short. Aside the populist strain in Mr. Aregbesola’s
establishment of OYES, one is persuaded that OYES was also
a deliberate act on his part.

This is owing to observable attempt in current
governance in Osun to return politics to how it was practised in a
bygone but much loved era in Western Nigeria. Aregbesola was not
one of those Nigerians directly nurtured and weaned by Chief Obafemi Awolowo but he seems very fascinated by the ideology of the father of Nigeria’s welfare politics.

Aregbesola appears to be a conscious follower of Awolowo,
at least in his utterances which are weighted in a welfarist direction, to
say nothing of the daily playback of the UPN anthem on the Osun State radio since the present government came into
office. The Unity Party of Nigeria, founded and led by Chief Awolowo, was easily
Nigeria’s most ideologically rooted party from between 1978 when it
was founded on the eve of the lifting of
the ban on politics and 1983 when Chief Awolowo last contested for the presidency on the platform of the party.

Despite claims by members of such parties as the Social Democratic Party, the Alliance for Democracy and
even the Action Congress of Nigeria to being reincarnations
of the UPN, it is obvious to many that the idea of ideologically-guided politics has
been on a long retreat in Nigeria.

The closest we can come to that era is to assess politicians on the basis of their individual actions.
It’s in that sense that Ogbeni (as he prefers to be called) Rauf Aregbesola can be called
an Awoist, meaning a follower of Awolowo’s politics.

But since he came into office last year, much of what Aregbesola has in terms of his practice of Awolowo’s politics resides yet in the realm of intention than actual execution. In other words, there is as
yet not much to point to on the ground with regards to the welfarist claims or posture of his
government. Perhaps this should not be too surprising given the fact that the ACN government in Osun crossed the 100 days mark not long
ago.

The OYES programme is, however, one of the more
obvious gestures of the Aregbesola administration in the direction of welfare government.
Noble as the intention behind the scheme might seem,
its execution is flawed in certain respects.

We may need to remind ourselves of the idea behind the scheme
before I go on to highlight what could be fine-tuned
about the scheme. As the name suggests, the OYES idea
was conceived as a youth empowerment project. Recognising
the high rate of youth unemployment in Osun State, the present government on assumption of
duty, promised to provide jobs for no less than 20,000 employable youths on its
one hundredth day in office. Well over 200,
000 youths applied when call went out for application early
this year.

The definition of ‘employable’ youth is not too
clear. But it is generally understood that among the present beneficiaries of the programme many are said to be possessors of higher degrees they wisely refuse to declare in order to qualify for employment.
Such is the desperation among the youths that anything that could be remotely defined as salaried job is jumped at and
is considered better than nothing. As we like to put it in popular parlance here,
‘at all, at all na im bad’.

So people learn to make do with little crumbs in the face of nothing.
And the OSun State government should be commended for this gesture.
But what is the nature of the employment
that these youths are offered? Essentially what are they employed to do?

Most times they move around in groups in their mostly
oversized new, brown overalls. The uniform looks too clean for
the nature of work they do which is mostly related to sanitation.

The OYES workers are mostly to be seen on road sides, moving languidly in groups as they pick refuse (papers, cans, cellophane, etc) and other types of wastes.
Even when it’s yet morning they look exhausted,
it seems, by the very nature of the work they are required to perform.
Other times, you see them on isolated parts of the highway cutting the overgrown grasses
on the sides like chain gangs. Some who constitute
the straggling groups, obviously nursing mothers or married women, strap their children to their backs or hold
them in their arms while wielding some crude stick or rod with which they probe
the undergrowth for wastes.

The entire lot look too many for the work they do.

While the idea behind this scheme might be noble, the picture evoked by the youths engaged in the programme is that
of an unhappy lot. I don’t want to believe that the best way to empower university and polytechnic graduates, many
of them parents in their own right, is by reducing them to the level of stick or cutlass-wielding children who go around
picking papers or cutting grass on road sides.
Labour shouldn’t be so devoid of its dignity.

Given their level of education and the variety of it,
the OYES youths can be better employed in other sectors of Osun State.
One obvious area is teaching. In a meeting with World Bank officials earlier
in the year, Ogbeni Aregbesola made the point that Osun State needs no less than N6 billion to revamp
her education.

It’s reasonable to think that one area where such funds would be expended would be on the
employment and training of teachers. Here the OYES youth
can assist primary and secondary school teachers presently in the employ of the State.
Those not able to or are uninterested in teaching can serve in some other administrative capacities, say
revenue collection or related municipal responsibilities that are presently the province of half-baked hangers-on whose only qualification is their connections to local politicians.

Yes, people are needed to pick refuse from the roads and cut grasses in order to keep the environment clean but those
should be jobs for less qualified people, and such people should be better trained
and equipped with modern equipment not sticks and cutlasses.
A lot of the tasks on which we expend raw human labour can be better handled by machines controlled by man.

This is not the era when people should have to spend the
little money they earn working on pain relievers. Nigerian youths deserve
better than this and with his avowed commitment to welfare politics and the genuineness of his action so far, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola can be in the vanguard
of the creation of a truly empowering society for our youths.

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