The Open Court 16, No.549

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The Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco's' article on the Aum and Gct- yatrt is an interesting contribution to the history of our knowledge of Sanskrit lit- erature and the Brahman religion. It is natural that any Hindu Samnyasi would be reluctant to initiate foreigners into their ceremonies or to recite to them their most sacred prayers. But Sir William Jones might have found the text of the Ga- yatri more easily and without any special sacrifice, if he had known that it was contained in the
...Rig-vedas, where we find it in Book III., 62, 10.
The Gayatri is the most sacred prayer of the Hindus and takes about the same place in their religion as the Lord's Prayer does in Christianity. It is addressed to the sun, and Sir Monier Monier- Williams calls it "that most ancient of all Aryan prayers, which was first uttered more than three thousand years ago, and which still rises day by day toward heaven, incessantly ejaculated by millions of our Indian fellow-subjects." The ancient Indians worshipped many divine powers, but the true gods of the period of the Veda were three; First, the fire god, the earth-born Agni ; secondly, the rain god, the earth-born Indra; and thirdly, the sun god, the sky-born Surya, IThe Countess Evelyn Martinengo Cesaresco is a granddaughter of Sir E.


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