The Great Devī Gāyatrī

Then Devī Tripurasundarī again said thus: “All of you hear Me. I am really Gāyatrī, Who is never different from Me. Pleased as I am with all of you, I will show you My divine form as Gāyatrī, the embodiment of the aggregate manifestation of speech.” Saying thus, the Divine Mother gave them the divine vision, and all the gods saw Goddess Tripurāmbikā in the form of Devī Gāyatrī. (45-47) The great Devī Gāyatrī pervaded the universe as its space. Her body constituted the 50 letters of the Sanskrit alphabet. She was the Supreme Ambrosial Bliss.The vowels (a to aḥ) were Her face; the five groups of consonants were Her arms, legs and stomach; the semivowels and the sibilants, Her head, heart and the base. The levels of speech—paśyantī, madhyamā and vaikharī—were Her navel, heart and mouth respectively. She was associated with cognizable nāda in madhyamā; Her heart was associated with the paśyantī sound; Her speech was the audible vaikharī. Her face was the letters of the alphabet; Her heart, the words; Her stomach, the sentences. She was both the audible and subtle forms of sound. Her head was the Vedas, Her eyes the luminous stars, Her mouth the science of grammar, Her voice the Vedic prosody, Her neck the science of euphony, Her ears the science of law; Her heart the Sāma-veda; Her breasts the Ṛg and Yajur-vedas; Her stomach the Atharvaṇa-veda. Her ribs the Sāṅkhya-yoga, Her hands the (Vaidik) rites, Her thighs the science of logic, Her back the auxiliary Vedas (like Āyurveda, Dhanurveda and so on); Her glances, the Purāṇas; Her smile the science of rhetorics. Self-knowledge was Her embodiment, Her disposition; Her nails and hair were the Buddhist and Jain philosophy. She was auspicious and transcendent. (48-55) Witnessing that wonderful form, the gods prostrated before Her and with folded hands, praised the Great Devī Gāyatrī. (56)