Where Ego Burned, Gayatri Was Born
Where Ego Burned, Gayatri Was Born A luminous contemplation on Rishi Vishwamitra Some mantras are memorized. Some are inherited. But the Gayatri did not descend casually into the life of Rishi Vishwamitra. It emerged from combustion. Ego is not merely pride. Ego is the insistence that I am the center . It is the reflex to dominate, to prove, to compare, to conquer. In the early arc of Rishi Vishwamitra’s journey, this force is strong—intelligent, ambitious, powerful. But it is unrefined. And unrefined power, even when brilliant, distorts perception. The transformation of Rishi Vishwamitra is not the erasure of ego . It is its incineration. Not by humiliation. Not by suppression. But by sustained exposure to truth. The Gayatri Mantra —an invocation of radiant intelligence—is not born from comfort. It is born when ego exhausts its arguments. When the need to be superior dissolves into the desire to be aligned. When the hunger for recognition is replaced by reverence for c...
