0’M 
and that holy text ‘saerasy ey = three words, {hall attain 
the fanétity which the Veda co 
s And a twice born man ae fhall a thoufand times 
repeat thofe three, (om, the vyahritis, and the gayatri,) 
t from the multitude, fhall be beta in a month even 
fom a great offence, asa {nake from his flough. 
o. “ The prieft, the foldier, and the serait; who fhall 
eas this myfterious text, and fail to perform in due 
feafon his aeaaeies acts of piety, fhall meet with contempt 
ar ns hie virtuows. 
eat immutable words geeceded by the triliteral 
fyllable and elicwed by the gayatri, which confifts of three 
meafures, muft be confidered as the mouth or principal part 
of ve da. 
ver fhall repeat, day by day, for three years, 
itheut iene: that facred text, fhall hereafter approach 
the divine effence, move freely as air, and affume an etherial 
— 
o 
taal 
= 
oO 
go 
og 
= 0g 
8 
oes 
s bat 
fu reffed breath, having, during its reffion, repeated 
mfelf the gayatri, the vyahritis, the triliteral mono- 
fyllable, and the facred text of Brahm. an ancient le- 
giflator it is faid to imply the following meditation: “om! 
earth! fky! heaven! manfion of the bleffed! abode of truth! 
—We meditate on the adorable light of the hoard Generator 
which governs our intelleds : which is water, luftre, fav vour, 
immortal, faculty of thought, Brahm, a fky, hea ven.’ 
The words which we have diltinguifhed by italics are very 
nearly the gayatri 
Chap vi. v. 70. «¢ Even three oe idioat of ee made 
ccording to the divine rule, accomp the triverbal 
aes (hur tbevarva and the ‘ricer fyllable (om), may 
tion 
ed 
pes confi igheft dev a Brahman. 
“ For . the Hed and impurities of metallic ores are 
estat ed by thus are the finfnl a&ts of the human 
organ sedan oa by t the fuppreffion of breath, while the 
at 
myttic words and the meafures of the Gayatri are revolved 
min all 
fuffice to fhew the veneration in which this 
and ‘‘ ineffable text’’ 
rs of their moft facred 
: n the Gita, Krifh- 
na, defcribing his own excellencies, felects the firft and beft 
of many things wherewit himfelf. «* I am,” 
he fays to Arjun, “ the monofyllable among words. 
«© Amongft harmonious meafures I am the Gayatri.” See 
Krisuna and Serr Buacavar. 
The extreme importance that the Hindoos attach to the 
e een in “ preceding 
extrats from Menu, to the three firft claffes, that is, to the 
o the Pagel aor tld and to 
cies pie r labourer, 
ner to individuals of the three “trft-named claifes, if rendered 
by vicious ata Naat of the ‘ fecond birth,’ 
promifed in the hol this myfterious i ently 
Fatting, ablution, are almfgiving, and other com 
able acts, are neceflary prelimmaries and Scconipanitnedts to 
pea : the myfteries of this ‘* ineffable text,”? which is 
he Guru, or eas ee ina saoaccie and 
fecret te anner, ae ‘edas the text 
ence. 
vealed fo as to incur the liability utterance re ticoune 
sag individuals, who might thereby wound the feelings of 
any good and refpeCtable men; its promulgation, while 
ont ah diftreffing a mary, would an{fwer no defirable end 
to fcience or literature.’? Page 410. In the frontifpiece to 
that work, the character or Fabel’ is Ne that would, if 
uttered, yield the found . om. The author fays he on ce 
ewed it to a Brahman, who filently averted his face, evi« 
dently pained by what he es y fa 
It has b pt Belcan ie initiated 
ie : m 
8 rega 
was taught, with certain ecepuane to — out of the four 
claffes or tribes of Hindoos. w fi but Brahmans 
are initiated in its fuppofed myfteries, iS oie queftion, 
and not perhaps eafily folved. But it may be here proper 
to remark, there is: a plurality of gayatris, althou zh their 
differences have not been hitherto develope ed. “The white 
goddefs, or Sarafwati, prefides over arts and {ciences: the is 
the Vedas, and the Vedas are in her. (See Saraswat). 
avitri, the confort of Brahma, is the gayatri, emphaticaily 
called the mother of the Vedas. ‘The gayatri confifts of 
certain myfterious words, which are confidered as the quint- 
effence of the Vedas. The three luperior claffes are re- 
generated, or born again, as they fay of the gayatri; 
the fame manner that we are born again of the fpirit an 
water : t yfterious name of holy Trinity is 
ns 
th are five different gayatris, according to 
the number of the principal deities, which are Vi Siva, 
the Sun, Devi, and Ganefa. That of the fun is the firft, 
and belongs secluively to the facerdotal clafs.”?’ Af. Ref. 
vol. xi. art. 2. 
Hence it may be seen pags cee there are dif- 
mafonry the 
ratio 
to the ‘incomparably greater Light,” typified by the fun- 
that 
