 What you call is Gayatri, what you call as many other things. In yoga we call this Tantra Yoga. Improper usage of sounds, powerful sounds can cause serious problems. Someone brought this lady to the program and she had lost her voice almost six or seven months or almost eight months before she came to me. Mantras need to be done with some care. Gayatri is a powerful process, very different in its nature. It is not something that's entirely focused towards one's internal or spiritual growth or that dimension. It involves various things. So this was generally taught to every householder so that for the not so focused people, some substance, some support for well-being, health, success and other aspects of life. So Gayatri is not necessarily for a serious spiritual practitioner. It is more for a householder for whom spiritual process is also one aspect of his life. It's a possibility if it's properly initiated. We don't generally do those things here because except for the Devi, spiritual process here is devoid of all ritual, internalizing the process. It's little more sophisticated and subtle but far more reliable than external processes. When we use external processes to create inner dimensions, it leads to a certain limitation of space entire as to what we do and what we do not do. You can't be twenty-four hours spiritually on. If you are involved in an external process, it's a good support, it's a good aid but it's just that it's a good support. In terms of support, there are many other ways to support this. Above all, those who are initiated by us here, we support them in a completely different way. They… they just have to… they just have to ask for it and wherever they are, there is a support system. Support system, not in terms of teachers and volunteers and stuff. Energetic support is available wherever they are. So because of our ability to provide this support to every human being, wherever they may be, we did not establish rituals of support. It is… it is one of the most popular things that's been done in the country for a long time. Long time means particularly in the last thousand years, I think since Adi Shankara, he propagated this big time. Because when he came, there was a certain degradation of general population. So he wanted to teach something that's mass. Like today we are doing Isha Kriya, mass. Gayathri is a certain process which involves many things. And considering the nature of what it is, I'm not saying it's relevant to date, it'll always be relevant. But socially and structurally, it is not so fitting into modern life as it is because of the things that are needed to make this happen. In today's world, because almost a huge population on the planet today does not stay in the same place. I want you to understand, I want to look back and see. Five hundred years ago, most people in their whole lifetime, they got up and went back to sleep in the same place, in the same building for their whole lifetime without one day of being out. That's how life used to be. Today I think very, very few human beings are like that. People like me, if I sleep on the same bed for two nights, I think it's a fortune. So those days are gone. Because of that, certain rituals and certain ways of doing things, the relevance of that has come down substantially. I'm not saying the relevance of the basic practice is gone now. But social things have changed, situational changes have happened which doesn't facilitate those type of practices much. It's best they're internalized. Internalized processes can be done anywhere. We are not depending upon what kind of atmosphere we are in, what kind of people we are with, it doesn't matter. So yoga is one hundred percent internalized. What you call as Gayatri, what you call as many other things, in yoga we call this tantra yoga. When I say tantra yoga, today tantra has found very ridiculous expressions, particularly in the western nations. And people think tantra, if you utter the word tantra, they're thinking about unbridled promiscuity. Now, tantra just means technology. There are various types of tantras. So if you employ technologies where external material is involved, that's called tantra. If you employ technologies where no external material is involved, it's completely internalized, then we call it yoga. If we want to create tantric processes, right now anarathi is happening in the Devi temple. It's a kind of a tantra, a puja happens, it's a tantra, an abhishekam happens, it's a tantra. These are techniques or technologies to create certain impact. But now if you want to do tantra, you need the form of the Devi, you have so many limitations. Tantra is useful. When people are not willing to do anything by themselves, they want somebody else to do it for them. So one person who's learned how to do it facilitates it for everyone. The danger of tantra is exploitation. There was a fabulous tantric culture in this country. In the last two generations, we've beaten it down because it led to such states of exploitation and turned so ugly, we thought it's better without it. So last two generations have really pushed ritualistic way of life out because it was so exploitative. So internalized processes, the safety of it is nobody can exploit it, it's you. Somebody can inspire you, somebody can initiate you, somebody can induct you in your powerful process, that's it. There is no room for exploitation. At the same time, there is no need to throw everything out. That would be like throwing the baby with the bath water. You don't have to throw everything out, carefully maintain tantra. It's okay. I want you to obliterate this silly idea that you have. Tantra means sexuality. No, it's got nothing to do with sexuality. It has got something to do with using external means to make things happen. Whatever. Because both yogis and tantrics are more like scientists, making… seeing how to make it work. They might not have fit into the moral codes of a particular society at a particular time in history. Because of that, they might have gotten this label. Because of that, they've gotten this label. But otherwise, it is nothing to do with sexuality. It's about learning to use external material for your well-being. Not just yours, the larger group of people. So Gayatri belongs to that realm. Nothing wrong with it. It's just the suitability of today. The mantras are a powerful process, but they need to be properly used, properly initiated. Improper usage of sounds, powerful sounds can cause serious problems. I happened to be in United States and someone brought this lady to the program, it was a seven-day event. And she had lost her voice almost six or seven months or almost eight months before she came to me. Voice totally gone. She's seen every doctor, every expert voice gone. She can't speak a word. Simply, empty air comes out when she tries to speak without any sound. They have not been able to detect anything improper with her vocal cords or whatever. Everything is proper, but she can't speak. So naturally, when nothing is there, they will say maybe there is a polyp, maybe there is this, maybe there is that, maybe in all kinds of cortisones and this and that. And somebody is suggesting a surgery. There's nothing else they want to open up and see. So they brought her to me and I looked at her and then I asked, did you do any practice, any spiritual process? Did you do any mantras? Then I said, okay, you be in the program, let's see. So one day, two days, three days, she's becoming anxious because her voice has not come back and I have not said a word about her vocal cords. So by fourth day she's very anxious. Then she came again and I again asked her, did you do any mantras? When I looked at her, I thought she must have done something. When I looked at her, it's very clear to me she's done something. She said, no. Then I asked, did you come under the influence of some mantras? Did you go to some place where they're doing powerful mantras and did you come under the influence? She said, no. Last day she's very anxious. Then again I met her and I said, you must have done something or you have come under the influence of some mantras. Tell me, what have you done in the last year, year and a half? Where all did you go? Then she said, I know she writes, she cannot speak. She said she did Gayatri. Oh, I said, where did you learn Gayatri? She said, I went to India and I bought a CD. Whenever I'm going to work, you know what learned to traffic is such, she takes two and a half hours to reach a workplace and when she's stuck in the traffic, they'll do Gayatri like this. And the traffic clears up when she's driving, she'll leave the Gayatri alone. When she has time, she'll just repeat with the thing. You know she's an American person, you know how she will repeat the mantra. We don't know already the CD itself may be wrong. And on top of it, she's American. Sanskrit words will not come easy to her. No, no, I'm not commenting about America. If you have not spoken the vernacular language, to utter Sanskrit will be very difficult. So then I knew that she's done messed up with Gayatri. I said, see three months if you come and stay with us in India, we will make an attempt, no guarantee, we will make an attempt and see. She came here and we put her through a whole lot of process. In three months, she recovered about 70% of her voice. Still 30% was not there. That is 30% not there means I first of all put her on, said don't make an attempt to speak. At the most in a day maximum one hour you can speak, rest of the time no speaking. Slowly, slowly she improved. Even then if she gets emotionally excited voice will go off. If she gets little emotional excitement voice will go. In about one year's time she recovered almost 90%. But still she found if she got angry her voice will go. I said that's good. But it stayed that way. Whenever you're angry at least you lose your voice. You don't say bad things at least. So over three, three and a half years time she recovered almost 100%. Only very rare moments it would give up. But generally almost 99% she recovered in about three, three and a half years time of practice. So mantras need to be done with some care with proper instruction and guidance.