MAHAMRITUNJAYA MANTRA WITH MEANING phaladheepika.blogspot.in/2013/11/mahamritunjaya-mantra-with-meaning.html OM TRYAMBAKKAM YAJAMAHE SUGANDHIM PUSTIVARDHANAM URVAROOKAMEVA BANDANAAN MRITYORMOKSHEEYA MAAMRITAAT. Meaning OM is not spelt out in the Rig-Veda, but has to be added to the beginning of all Mantras as given in an earlier Mantra of the Rig-Veda addressed to Ganapati. TRYAMBAKKAM refers to the Three eyes of Lord Shiva. Trya means Three and Ambakam means eyes. These three eyes or sources of enlightenment are the Trimurti or three primary deities, namely Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva and the three AMBA (also meaning Mother or Shakti are Saraswati, Lakshmi and Gouri. Thus in this word, we are referring to God as Omniscient (Brahma), Omnipresent (Vishnu) and Omnipotent (Shiva). This is the wisdom of Brihaspati and is referred to as Sri Duttatreya having three heads of Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva. YAJAMAHE : means, We sing Thy praise. SUGANDHIM : refers to His fragrance (of knowledge, presence and strength i.e. three aspects) as being the best and always spreading around. Fragrance refers to the joy that we get on knowing, seeing or feeling His virtuous deeds. PUSTIVARDHANAM : Pooshan refers to Him as the sustainer of this world and in this manner, He is the Father of all. Pooshan is also the inner impeller of all knowledge and is thus Savitur or the Sun and also symbolises Brahma the Omniscient Creator. In this manner He is also the Father of all. URVAAROKAMEVA : URVA means VISHAL or big and powerful .AAROOKAM means Disease. Thus URVAROOKA means deadly and overpowering diseases. The diseases are also of three kinds caused by the influence (in the negative) of the three Gunas and are ignorance (Avidya etc),falsehood (Asat etc as even though Vishnu is everywhere, we fail to perceive Him and are guided by our sight and other senses) and weaknesses (Shadripu etc. a constraint of this physical body and Shiva is all powerful). BANDANAAM : means bound down. Thus read with URVAROOKAMEVA, it means I am bound down by deadly and overpowering diseases. MRITYORMOOKSHEYA : means to deliver us from death (both premature deaths in this Physical world and from the never-ending cycle of deaths due to re-birth) for the sake of Mokshya (Nirvana or final emancipation from re-birth). MAAMRITAAT : means please give me some Amritam (life rejuvenating nectar). Read with the previous word, it means that we are praying for some Amrit to get out of the death inflicting diseases as well as the cycle of re-birth.
Posted on: Sun, 03 Nov 2013 02:16:48 +0000
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