Devi Bhagavata Purana — Skandha 12 — Chapter 4

DB 12 4.1

गायत्रीहृदयम् नारद उवाच भगवन् देवदेवेश भूतभव्यजगत्प्रभो । कवचं च श्रुतं दिव्यं गायत्रीमन्त्रविग्रहम्

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

The Heart of Gāyatrī. Nārada said: O Lord, O ruler of the gods of gods, O master of the world past and future, the divine armour has been heard (by me), which is the very embodiment of the Gāyatrī mantra.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

DB 12 4.2

अधुना श्रोतुमिच्छामि गायत्रीहृदयं परम् । यद्धारणाद्भवेत्युण्यं गायत्रीजपतोऽखिलम्

adhunā śrotumicchāmi gāyatrīhṛdayaṃ param | yaddhāraṇādbhavetyuṇyaṃ gāyatrījapato'khilam

Now I wish to hear the supreme Heart of Gāyatrī, by the bearing of which everything becomes pure for one who recites the Gāyatrī.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

DB 12 4.3

श्रीनारायण उवाच देव्याश्च हृदयं प्रोक्तं नारदाथर्वणे स्फुटम् । तदेवाहं प्रवक्ष्यामि रहस्यातिरहस्यकम्

śrīnārāyaṇa uvāca devyāśca hṛdayaṃ proktaṃ nāradātharvaṇe sphuṭam | tadevāhaṃ pravakṣyāmi rahasyātirahasyakam

Śrī Nārāyaṇa said: The Heart of the Goddess has been declared plainly in the Nārada-Atharvaṇa (text); that very (Heart) I shall proclaim, the secret of secrets.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

DB 12 4.4

विराड्रूपां महादेवीं गायत्रीं वेदमातरम् । ध्यात्वा तस्यास्त्वथाङ्गेषु ध्यायेदेताश्च देवताः न्यासः द्यौर्मूर्ध्नि दैवतम् । दन्तपङ्क्तावश्विनौ । उभे सन्ध्ये चोष्ठौ । मुखमग्निः । जिह्वा सरस्वती । ग्रीवायां तु बृहस्पतिः । स्तनयोर्वसवोऽष्टौ । बाह्वोर्मरुतः । हृदये पर्जन्यः । आकाशमुदरम् । नाभावन्तरिक्षम् । कट्यो- रिन्द्राग्नी । जघने विज्ञानघनः प्रजापतिः । कैलास- मलये ऊरू । विश्वेदेवा जान्वोः । जङ्घायां कौशिकः । गुह्यमयने । ऊरू पितरः । पादौ पृथिवी । वनस्पत- योऽङ्गुलीषु । ऋषयो रोमाणि । नखानि मुहूर्तानि । अस्थिषु ग्रहाः । असृङ्मांसमृतवः । संवत्सरा वै निमिषम् । अहोरात्रावादित्यश्चन्द्रमाः । प्रवरां दिव्यां गायत्रीं सहस्रनेत्रां शरणमहं प्रपद्ये । ॐ तत्सवितुर्वरेण्याय नमः । ॐ तत्पूर्वाजयाय नमः । तत्प्रातरादित्याय नमः । तत्प्रातरादित्यप्रतिष्ठायै नमः । प्रातरधीयानो रात्रिकृतं पापं नाशयति । सायमधीयानो दिवसकृतं पापं नाशयति । सायंप्रातरधीयानो अपापो भवति । सर्वतीर्थेषु स्नातो भवति । सर्वैर्देवैर्ज्ञातो भवति । अवाच्यवचनात्पूतो भवति । अभक्ष्यभक्षणात्पूतो भवति । अभोज्यभोजनापूतो भवति । अचोष्यचोष- णात्पूतो भवति । असाध्यसाधनात्पूतो भवति । दुष्प्रतिग्रहशतसहस्रात्पूतो भवति । सर्वप्रतिग्रहात्पूतो भवति । पङ्क्तिदूषणात्पूतो भवति । अनृतवचनात्पूतो भवति । अथाब्रह्मचारी ब्रह्मचारी भवति । अनेन हृदयेनाधीतेन क्रतुसहस्रेणेष्टं भवति । षष्टिशत- सहस्रगायत्र्या जप्यानि फलानि भवन्ति । अष्टौ ब्राह्मणान्सम्यग्ग्राहयेत् । तस्य सिद्धिर्भवति । य इदं नित्यमधीयानो ब्राह्मणः प्रातः शुचिः सर्वपापैः प्रमुच्यत इति । ब्रह्मलोके महीयते । इत्याह भगवान् श्रीनारायणः ।

virāḍrūpāṃ mahādevīṃ gāyatrīṃ vedamātaram | dhyātvā tasyāstvathāṅgeṣu dhyāyedetāśca devatāḥ nyāsaḥ dyaurmūrdhni daivatam | dantapaṅktāvaśvinau | ubhe sandhye coṣṭhau | mukhamagniḥ | jihvā sarasvatī | grīvāyāṃ tu bṛhaspatiḥ | stanayorvasavo'ṣṭau | bāhvormarutaḥ | hṛdaye parjanyaḥ | ākāśamudaram | nābhāvantarikṣam | 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 | sāyaṃprātaradhīyāno 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 |

Having meditated on the great Goddess Gāyatrī, mother of the Vedas, whose form is the Cosmic Body (Virāj), one should then meditate upon these deities in her limbs. The placement (nyāsa): heaven is the deity in the head; the two Aśvins in the rows of teeth; the two twilights are the lips; the mouth is fire; the tongue is Sarasvatī; in the neck is Bṛhaspati; in the two breasts the eight Vasus; in the arms the Maruts; in the heart Parjanya; the belly is the sky; in the navel the mid-region; in the two hips Indra and Agni; in the loins Prajāpati, dense with knowledge; Kailāsa and Malaya are the two thighs; the All-gods in the knees; in the shanks Kauśika; the two solstices in the secret parts; the thighs are the Fathers; the feet are the earth; the forest-trees in the fingers; the seers are the body-hairs; the nails are the muhūrtas; in the bones the planets; blood and flesh are the seasons; the years, verily, are the blink (of an eye); day and night are the sun and the moon. I go for refuge to the eminent, divine Gāyatrī of a thousand eyes. Oṃ, homage to that Choice One of Savitṛ; oṃ, homage to that Prior Unconquered One; homage to that morning Sun; homage to the establishment of that morning Sun. Reciting (this) in the morning, one destroys the sin committed at night; reciting it in the evening, one destroys the sin committed by day; reciting it evening and morning, one becomes sinless. One becomes (as if) bathed in all sacred fords; one becomes known to all the gods; one becomes purified from speaking what should not be spoken; one becomes purified from eating what should not be eaten; one becomes purified from consuming what should not be consumed; one becomes purified from sucking what should not be sucked; one becomes purified from accomplishing what should not be accomplished; one becomes purified from a hundred thousand wrongful acceptances of gifts; one becomes purified from accepting anything whatever; one becomes purified from defiling the dining-row; one becomes purified from untrue speech. Then one who is not a chaste student becomes a chaste student. When this Heart has been recited, one has (as it were) sacrificed with a thousand rites. The fruits obtainable by the recitation of six million Gāyatrīs come about. One should have eight brahmins duly receive it; his success comes about. The brahmin who, pure, recites this daily in the morning is released from all sins — so (it is said); he is honoured in the world of Brahmā. Thus spoke the Lord Śrī Nārāyaṇa.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain

DB 12 4.5

पिण्डब्रह्माण्डयोरैक्याद्भावयेत्स्वतनौ तथा । देवीरूपे निजे देहे तन्मयत्वाय साधकः

piṇḍabrahmāṇḍayoraikyādbhāvayetsvatanau tathā | devīrūpe nije dehe tanmayatvāya sādhakaḥ

Because of the identity of the individual body and the cosmic egg, the practitioner should thus contemplate (them) in his own body — his own body being of the form of the Goddess — in order to become one with her.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain

DB 12 4.6

नादेवोऽभ्यर्चयेद्देवमिति वेदविदो विदुः । ततोऽभेदाय काये स्वे भावयेद्देवता इमाः

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

"One who is not a god should not worship a god" — so the knowers of the Veda know. Therefore, for the sake of non-difference, one should contemplate these deities in one's own body.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

DB 12 4.7

अथ तत्सम्प्रवक्ष्यामि तन्मयत्वमथो भवेत् । गायत्रीहृदयस्यास्याप्यहमेव ऋषिः स्मृतः

atha tatsampravakṣyāmi tanmayatvamatho bhavet | gāyatrīhṛdayasyāsyāpyahameva ṛṣiḥ smṛtaḥ

Now I shall declare that fully, whereby identity with her would then come about. Of this Heart of Gāyatrī I myself am held to be the seer.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition

DB 12 4.8

गायत्रीच्छन्द उद्दिष्टं देवता परमेश्वरी । पूर्वोक्तेन प्रकारेण कुर्यादङ्गानि षट्क्रमात् । आसने विजने देशे ध्यायेदेकाग्रमानसः

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

The metre is declared to be gāyatrī, the deity is the Supreme Goddess. In the manner stated before one should perform the six limb-(rites) in order. Seated in a solitary place, one should meditate with a one-pointed mind.

AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition