Mahamrityunjay Mantra,

Mahamrityunjay Mantra,



Om tryambakam yajaamahe
sugandhim pushthivardhanam;
Urvaarukamiva bandhanaan
Mrityormuksheeya maamritaat.


The literal meaning of the mantra is as follows: “We worship the three-eyed one (Lord Shiva) who is fragrant (in a state of supreme bliss), and who sustains all living beings. May he liberate us from the eternal cycle of birth and thereby death. May he lead us to immortality, just as the ripe cucumber is released from its bondage (the vine to which it is attached).”

If one observes the plucking of raw cucumber from the vine, one can see how the vegetable is attached to the stem with a network of raw fibre, needing physical effort of twisting hard, holding the vegetable, with juice oozing out of the attachment. On the other hand, in the case of a ripe cucumber fruit, the fiber attaching the fruit to the branch, is feeble and requires lesser effort to pluck. A fully ripe fruit slowly gets detached and falls to the ground.

Releasing from the Cycle of Birth and Death

'Om Tryambakam Yajamahe
Sugandhim Pushtivardhanam
Urvarukamiva Bandhanaan
Mrityor Mukshiya Maamritat'

'Tryambakam' 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.

'Pushtivardhanam' refers to Him as the sustainer of this world and in this manner, He is the Father (Pater) 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 (Genitor) of all.

'Urvarukamiva': '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 Guna's 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).

'Bandhanaan' means bound down. Thus read with 'Urvarookamiva', it means 'I am bound down by deadly and overpowering diseases'.

Mrityor Mukshiya' 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 Moksha (Nirvana or final emancipation from re-birth).

'Maamritat' 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.

Collected from various sources


My sources

http://greenmesg.org/mantras_slokas/sri_shiva-mahamrityunjaya_mantra.php

http://www.yogamag.net/archives/2007/ajan07/mrit.shtml

http://www.rudraksha-ratna.com/shiva-mantra-siddhi-jaap_193.html5

http://www.shivashantiyoga.com/Blog/?p=23

https://beta.groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/srijagannath/conversations/topics/2

yahoo answers

and few more

P.J. said:

Mahamrityunjay Mantra,



Om tryambakam yajaamahe
sugandhim pushthivardhanam;
Urvaarukamiva bandhanaan
Mrityormuksheeya maamritaat.


The literal meaning of the mantra is as follows: “We worship the three-eyed one (Lord Shiva) who is fragrant (in a state of supreme bliss), and who sustains all living beings. May he liberate us from the eternal cycle of birth and thereby death. May he lead us to immortality, just as the ripe cucumber is released from its bondage (the vine to which it is attached).”

If one observes the plucking of raw cucumber from the vine, one can see how the vegetable is attached to the stem with a network of raw fibre, needing physical effort of twisting hard, holding the vegetable, with juice oozing out of the attachment. On the other hand, in the case of a ripe cucumber fruit, the fiber attaching the fruit to the branch, is feeble and requires lesser effort to pluck. A fully ripe fruit slowly gets detached and falls to the ground.

Releasing from the Cycle of Birth and Death

'Om Tryambakam Yajamahe
Sugandhim Pushtivardhanam
Urvarukamiva Bandhanaan
Mrityor Mukshiya Maamritat'

'Tryambakam' 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.

'Pushtivardhanam' refers to Him as the sustainer of this world and in this manner, He is the Father (Pater) 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 (Genitor) of all.

'Urvarukamiva': '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 Guna's 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).

'Bandhanaan' means bound down. Thus read with 'Urvarookamiva', it means 'I am bound down by deadly and overpowering diseases'.

Mrityor Mukshiya' 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 Moksha (Nirvana or final emancipation from re-birth).

'Maamritat' 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.

Collected from various sources

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Dear Shri PJ,

The word 'thryambakam' does not, by any stretch of imagination, mean a god with three eyes. The word-meaning has to be based on 'trai +ambaka' or on 'tri +ambika'; in the former case, it will mean 'one with three mothers' whereas the latter will indicate 'one with ambika' although this involves the unwanted twist of the clear 'ambaka' into'ambika'. D.R. Bhandarkar, in his book "some aspects of ancient indian culture", proposes that there ought to have been a "three-mother" origin for Siva, just as we now have a "six-mother" status for His son Karthikeya, but this hoary origin is now lost to us.

"urvaaru" means a kind of cucumber, Cucumis Usitatissimus, and Urvaaruka, -am, denotes the fruit of the above plant. The reference is to the known fact that this urvaarukam, automatically has its stem connecting the fruit to the plant, drying up and causing the fruit to detach completely from the plant (A similar phenomenon makes most other fruits, (mangos, jack-fruits, coconuts and so on to separate from the tree, but our vedic scriptures, somehow, cite the Urvaarukam as example) when fully ripe. Urvaarukam iva bandhanaat (mrityor) muksheeya means 'just as the Urvaarukam is let out of bondage, (we) pray...to liberate (us) from mrityu and not (maa + amritaat = not from amrita or deathlessness, moksha).

I feel the source from which you have copied the OP is highly erroneous.

My sources

Maha Mrityunjaya Mantra - in sanskrit with meaning - mantra on Sri Shiva: Tryambakam Yajamahe

Mahamrityunjaya Mantra – Door into Eternal Life

Shiva Mantra Siddhi Jaap

Om Namah Shivaya | Shiva Shanti Yoga

https://beta.groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/srijagannath/conversations/topics/2

yahoo answers

and few more

Why Ripe Cucumber is mentioned in Mahamrityunjaya mantra?

Why Ripe Cucumber is mentioned in Mahamrityunjaya mantra?

If one observes the plucking of raw cucumber from the vine, one can see how the vegetable is attached to the stem with a network of raw fibre, needing physical effort of twisting hard, holding the vegetable, with juice oozing out of the attachment. On the other hand, in the case of a ripe cucumber fruit, the fibre attaching the fruit to the branch, is feeble and requires lesser effort to pluck. A fully ripe fruit slowly gets detached and falls to the ground.

Referring to the said phenomenon, the mantra contains a prayer, that the Lord should bestow a boon that the human who is attached to worldly affairs in myriad manner, should shed off the bondage continually, and secede from the worldly affairs effortlessly.


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sangom said:

Dear Shri PJ,

The word 'thryambakam' does not, by any stretch of imagination, mean a god with three eyes. The word-meaning has to be based on 'trai +ambaka' or on 'tri +ambika'; in the former case, it will mean 'one with three mothers' whereas the latter will indicate 'one with ambika' although this involves the unwanted twist of the clear 'ambaka' into'ambika'. D.R. Bhandarkar, in his book "some aspects of ancient indian culture", proposes that there ought to have been a "three-mother" origin for Siva, just as we now have a "six-mother" status for His son Karthikeya, but this hoary origin is now lost to us.

"urvaaru" means a kind of cucumber, Cucumis Usitatissimus, and Urvaaruka, -am, denotes the fruit of the above plant. The reference is to the known fact that this urvaarukam, automatically has its stem connecting the fruit to the plant, drying up and causing the fruit to detach completely from the plant (A similar phenomenon makes most other fruits, (mangos, jack-fruits, coconuts and so on to separate from the tree, but our vedic scriptures, somehow, cite the Urvaarukam as example) when fully ripe. Urvaarukam iva bandhanaat (mrityor) muksheeya means 'just as the Urvaarukam is let out of bondage, (we) pray...to liberate (us) from mrityu and not (maa + amritaat = not from amrita or deathlessness, moksha).

I feel the source from which you have copied the OP is highly erroneous.

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Commenting without reading the full reply shows your immaturity

Tryambakam' 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.

Why do you comment without any stuff on any thing?