{"id":6042,"date":"2018-09-04T08:18:19","date_gmt":"2018-09-04T12:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theyogasanctuary.biz\/staging\/?p=6042"},"modified":"2023-07-31T12:02:13","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T16:02:13","slug":"the-maha-mrityunjaya-mantra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theyogasanctuary.biz\/the-maha-mrityunjaya-mantra\/","title":{"rendered":"The Maha Mrityunjaya Mantra"},"content":{"rendered":"
by Gwen Burdick<\/h5>\n
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Maha Mritynjaya in repeating Devangari script<\/p><\/div>\n

Om Triyambakam yajamahe<\/p>\n

Sugandhim pushti vardhanam<\/p>\n

Urvarukamiva bandhanan<\/p>\n

Mrityor mukshiya mamritat<\/p>\n

Translation:\u00a0\u00a0 I meditate on, and surrender myself to, the Divine Being who embodies the power of will, the power of knowledge and the power of action.\u00a0 I pray to the Divine Being who manifests in the form of fragrance in the flower of life and is the eternal nourisher of the plant of life.\u00a0 Like a skillful gardener, may the Lord of Life disentangle me from the binding forces of my physical, psychological, and spiritual hurdles.\u00a0 May the Lord of Immortality residing within free me from death, decay and sickness and unite me with immortality.<\/p>\n

The Maha Mrityunjaya mantra is the nourishing, healing, and life restoring mantra deriving from the Rig Veda and is considered the heart of the Vedas.\u00a0 In Sanskrit, “Maha\u201d means great, \u201cMrityun\u201d means death, and \u201cJaya\u201d means victory.\u00a0 Of course, every living thing eventually dies.\u00a0 Through the practice of reciting this mantra we obtain victory over the fear of death.\u00a0 We realize that the deathless Divine Being is who we really are.<\/p>\n

The practice of the Maha Mrityunjaya mantra sends forth vibrations from body to mind to soul.\u00a0 It awakens the internal healing forces and Nature\u2019s healing forces together so that we may receive the full nourishment of any discipline undertaken for well-being.\u00a0 Strengthening the powers of will, knowledge and action, it unblocks the flow of courage and determination.\u00a0 The scriptures guarantee that, through sincere practice, we clear away obstacles and attain freedom from weaknesses (the fear of death being the greatest) by making the strong part of ourselves even stronger.<\/p>\n

This is the mantra of choice or those who struggle with grief, hopelessness, burn-out or illness.\u00a0 It is most suited for those who need to access their own healing force for spiritual unfoldment.\u00a0 Japa, the silent repetition of a mantra, is most effective with the use of a mala.\u00a0 The Rudrasksha mala, made from 108 seeds of an Indian tree, is most traditional.\u00a0 The practice of the Maha Mrityunjaya mantra can be done for ourselves or for someone else, but the time to learn this mantra is before it is needed.\u00a0 Then we must execute the practice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Gwen Burdick Om Triyambakam yajamahe Sugandhim pushti vardhanam Urvarukamiva bandhanan Mrityor mukshiya mamritat Translation:\u00a0\u00a0 I meditate on, and surrender myself to, the Divine Being who embodies the power of will, the power of knowledge and the power of action.\u00a0 I pray to the Divine Being who manifests in the form of fragrance in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[92,8,128,107,100],"tags":[31,206,205,105,58],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theyogasanctuary.biz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6042"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theyogasanctuary.biz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theyogasanctuary.biz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theyogasanctuary.biz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theyogasanctuary.biz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6042"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.theyogasanctuary.biz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6060,"href":"https:\/\/www.theyogasanctuary.biz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6042\/revisions\/6060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theyogasanctuary.biz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theyogasanctuary.biz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theyogasanctuary.biz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}