Mrityunjaya Mantra
Hari Om
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Namaste and Jai Sadashiva Nama!
Let us discuss the joy and boundlessness of Mahadeva or Maheshvara. He is also known as Chandraprakash , One Who Has Moon As A Crest ( as we see Him with the crest moon above His head).
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Here is the Mrityunjaya Mantra (below) to Siva, the Auspicious. As He is Sankara , sama ( blessings) + Kara (giver). He is Trayambaka, three eyed, the destroyer of ignorance and bondage.
It's said Siva ( some even write c'via) has 8 qualities: purity, independence, SELF-knowledge, omniscience, complete freedom and
absence of mala (impurity), boundless benevolence, omnipotence , and the fullness of amritam or bliss.
He is also known as Rudra in the Vedas. And we wear Rudraksha - the eye of Rudra ( His tears as the story is explained) to bring HIS vibration to us. Lord Shiva consumes the poison of problems (his blue neck or Nilakantha) of his devotees and bestows upon them elixir of health and divine boons. Among the various forms of the Lord, Mahamrityunjaya is considered best.
According to Rishi Vashisha Mahamrityunjaya Mantra has 33 phonomes of syllables, which represent the powers of the 33 deva's:
These 33 deities are - eight Vasus, eleven Rudras, twelve Aadityas, one Prajapati and one Vashatkaar.
Om Tryambhakam Yajamahe
Sugandhim Pushtivardhanam
Urvarukamiva Bandhanan
Mrityor Mukshiya Maamritat
AUM - Brahama, Vishnu and Siva
Tryambhakam - 3 eyed - Siva's 3rd eye represents intuition, insight, inner-vision, and expanded awareness
Yajamahe ( from yajya) we worship, some say we sing thee praise
Sugandhim - fragrant: whats fragrant? When we open ourselves to the explanded vision of Unboundedness ( Bhuma)
all becomes fragrant to the sadhu.
Pushtivardhanam - pushti , or nourshes - the Fullenss of Being, nourshes the sadhu and all creation; vardhanam - increases the fulless or nourshment, increases, and comes to bloom ( fragrance of Being) in Moska.
Urvarukamiva - a creeper ( often found in the veda) like a cucumber, even the soma plant that is the essense of existence, and the delight of being, the soma juice, the delight of existance; the example of the cucumber, it grows, matures, and drops off from the vine, as the sadhu grows, then matures, and finally drops away from
the bondage of ignorance, to this Bhuma. Where is this bondage? The next line:
Bandhanan - bound or bondage to the small self, driven here and there by the senses.
Mrityor - death
Mukshiya - Liberation , from the root Moks to liberate. From what ? Niti niti - that I am not this individual self, that I am this SELF this sarva ( all, complete) and not this sarira or that which perishes with the coming and going of the body.
Maamritat -ma amritat : amritat's root is amrta or 'not death' or the Imortal Reality as the fundamanetal principle behind every-thing.
We worship the Three-eyed One (Lord Siva).
Who is fragrant and who nourishes well all beings.
May He liberate us from death for the sake of immortality,
Even as the cucumber is severed from bondage to the creeper
All Glory to Vishveshwara!
यतस्त्वं शिवसमोऽसि
yatastvaṁ śivasamo'si
because you are identical with śiva
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