Srila Guru Maharaj composed the following verse, and only he was able to:
gayatri
muralista-kirttana-dhanam radhapadam dhimahi
I have never seen in any book from Mahaprabhu's time right up to Srila Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati Thakur's time the type of explanation of Gayatri as given by Srila Guru Maharaj. Actually, Mahaprabhu is our parent, and the seeds came from Krishna. Madhavendra Puri was the sprout of those seeds, Mahaprabhu was the actual tree, and the fruits are Rupa Goswami, Sanatan Goswami, and others. Srila Guru Maharaj is also in the line of the fruits. It is not that the persons are the fruits, but what they gave are the fruits of Mahaprabhu's conception.
Om
is the very gist of Gayatri, and from that Om come
merciful rays like the rays of the sun. Sri Chaitanya Saraswat
Math, where always Sankirttan is going on, is inside
the flute of Krishna, and from there comes this sound Om.
Om, the meaning of Gayatri, is coming from Sri Chaitanya
Saraswat Math, and from here the explanation of Gayatri has
been given by Srila Guru Maharaj: Gayatri muralista-kirttana-dhanam
Radhapadam dhimahi.
"Radha-dasyam,
the service of Srimati Radharani,
is the ultimate meaning to be extracted
from the Gayatri Mantra. That is the supreme
end of our life. It cannot but be so."
-Srila Bhakti Raksak Sridhar Dev-Goswami Maharaj |
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The
position of Srila Guru Maharaj is like the water; the servitors
of Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math are like lotuses; and the position
of the worshipful Supreme Personality of Godhead is the Divine
Form of Radha-Krishna - Om. Everything is within
Om. Om is coming from the flute of Krishna, and the
meaning of Om, of Gayatri, is: Gayatri muralista-kirttana-dhanam
Radhapadam dhimahi. Krishna's flute does not make any
other tune except the glorification of Srimati Radharani,
and that is the real meaning and gist of the Gayatri Mantram.
The sun's merciful rays give nourishment to the lotus, but
if there is no water then the lotus will be burnt by the rays
of the sun.
The flute is the special symbol of Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math. Before we adopted the flute as our symbol, it was not to be found anywhere. Now many others also have copied this, but it first came from here, Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math. What is the song of the flute? It is the glorification of Srimati Radharani by Sri Krishna - and this is depicted in the logo of Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math.