Mahamrithyunjaya mantram

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, " Ramachandran.ChidambaraIyer "

<swarnam_rama wrote:

>

> I have written about Mahamrityunjaya mantram for Koti Archana.

>

> I read a description about this mantram in " Daivathin Kural " vol

vi by

> Mahaswamy Chandrasekhara Saraswathi of Kanchi Mutt.

>

> The mantram generally means that one prays for all his welfare and

> prosperity in this world,lives till ripe old age and the end is

> without any suffering,illness or pain like the ripe old Vallari

fruit

> drops from the climber, to attain everlasting bliss.

>

> There is more than this meaning.

>

> Vallari (urvarukam) is a climber and not a tree or plant. It grows

on

> the ground without support from a tree or pandal. When the fruit is

> fully ripe the stalk disconnects from the fruit and it is left on

the

> floor. It is not the fruit that disconnects but the stem and it

goes

> about growing further leaving the fruit in its place. Another

point is

> it never decays even after left alone for a long time.

>

> We pray Lord Parameswara ( Thriambaka) that our life should be

long,

> sweet smelling(suganthim) prosperous (pusti)and healthy and the

life

> to a ripe old age without disease when one realizes SELF (Atma

bhodam)

> and still live in the same environment, without any attachment to

the

> exterior world like water particles on lotus leaf. When Maya leaves

> alone the individual, like the disassociation of stalk to the

fruit,

> the life to come to an end abruptly without any pain or suffering

and

> attains Moksha(amrutatwam)like the vellari fruit when fully ripe,

the

> stalk disconnects it from the stem, remains in on the ground for a

> long time without decaying or smelling and bursts, leaving no

remnants

> like Manikkavachakar,Nandanar and Meerabai as they join the

universe

> leaving nothing in this world.

>

> This is Mahamrithyunjaya mantram.

>