Kindly explain the real meaning of the Gayatri mantra with regard to the movie songs once again.

[Smt. Chhanda asked:- Paadanamaskaaram Swami, please clarify the following doubts: In last Saturday’s Satsang, You explained very beautifully the real meaning of Gayatri mantra w.r.t. the movie songs. Every detail You brought out from real meaning to protection from God. I will request You once to kindly explain it once again.]

Swami replied:- The priests in the beginning of Kali Yuga were ignorant of the meaning of the Veda and hence, they became egoistic and foolish. Due to this, they suppressed all females and all lower castes by denying Upanayanam and Gayatri, thinking that these two rituals are the only way to reach God. God punished them for their ego by not clarifying the real meaning of Upanayanam and Gayatri rituals. These priests misunderstood that a specific hymn in Gayatri meter present in the Rug Veda is Gayatri-deity. They did not have the simple common sense that every hymn present in Gayatri meter must be the deity Gayatri. Moreover, the hymn selected by them does not refer to the deity Gayatri at all. It refers only to God Brahma, who is the husband of the deity Gayatri. They thought that by such Gayatri, one can become close to God and becoming close to God is the meaning of the Upanayanam ritual. God did not clear their ignorance due to their foolish and rigid ego because even if God preaches, they will not listen and understand. In this way, they were misled to follow a wrong path and did not even reach God, not to speak of becoming close to God. Actually, Gayatri means worshipping God by singing sweet songs in praise of God and this applies to every caste, gender, language, religion, region, etc. By this correct way only, one can reach and become close to God. This is the actual meaning of the rituals of preaching Gayatri and Upanayanam. The lesson that should be learnt from this is that if you dig a pit for others, others will not fall in that pit and you yourself will fall in the pit!