Mrityunjaya Mantra

"SRath "
SRath wrote:

JAYA JAGANNATH

Dear Gautam,

The Mahamrutunjaya Mantra Reads: OM TRYAMBAKKAM YAJAMAHE SUGANDHIM PUSTIVARDHANAM URVAROOKAMEVA BANDANAAN MRITYORMOKSHEEYA MAAMRITAAT.

OM is not given in the Rig Veda, but has to be added to the begining of all Mantras as given in an earlier Mantra of the Rig Veda addressed to Ganapati. This Mantra is given in the Prayer page of my Book Maharishi Jaimini's Upadesa Sutra.

TRYAMBAKKAM refers to the Three eyes of Lord Sadashiva. Trya means Three and Ambakam means eyes. These three eyes or sources of enlightenment are the Trimurti 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 vision 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..three aspects) as being the best and always spreading around. Gautamji has interpreted this very correctly as: Sugandhim (Prasarit Punya Kirtim, that is Whose virtuous deeds are spread to all four sides)

PUSTIVARDHANAM: Pooshanam refers to Him as the sustainer of this world and in this manner, He is the Father of all. Gautamji has given an excellent interpretation as seed of the World. Gautamji wrote:- Pustivardhanam ( Seed of the world, one who increases the number of worshippers or one who increases the Shakti or power such as Anima, Garima etc.)

URVAAROKAMEVA (The catch is here) 'URVA' means "VISHAL" or big and powerful or deadly.. 'AAROOKAM' means 'Disease'. Thus URVAROOKA means deadly and overpowering diseases. (The CUCUMBER interpretation is also correct for the word URVAROOKAM, but not apt for this mantra). 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).

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 death in this Physical world and from the neverending 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 rejuvinating 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.

Hare Krishna,
Sanjay Rath
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Navadurga and Dasa Mahavidya

Jaya Jagannath Dear Freedom,

When I read you mail on the Nava durga, I recollected something which Gurudev told me long back. He was saying that the tithi in which one is born has a very specific significance in the the life of the native. Being the child of both the lumineries, it is store house of knowledge. Recently we found out how to find the Jyotirlingam based on the tithi.

There is a way we can find the mother form from the tithi too. For the Krsna Paksha, the Dasa Mahavidya form is predominant and for the Sukla Paksha, the Durga form is predominant. Just take the lord of the tithi worship the mother form, based on the paksha.

So for Krsna Paksha Birth the form of the mother is
Sun- Matangi
Moon- Bhubaneswari
Mars- Bagalamukhi
Merc- Tripurasundari
Jup- Tara
Ven- Kamalatmika
Sat- Kalika
Rahu- Chinnamasta
Ketu- Dhoomavati


For Sukla Paksha, the forms are as you mentioned

Sun-Shailyaputri (daughter of the Mountains)
Moon- Mahagauri
Mars- Skandamata
Mercury- Katyayani
Jupiter- Brahmacharini
Venus- Kushmandi
Saturn- Kalaratri
Rahu- Chandraganta (bell of the Moon)
Ketu- Siddhidatri (giver of siddhis)

I am born in Sukla Navami and hence I shall worship Shailyaputri.

Best Wishes
Sarajit


-----Original Message-----
From: Freedom [mailto:freedom@...]
Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2003 1:14 AM
To: srijagannath@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [SJC: Achyuta Gurukul] Re: Achyuta Gurukul] #3 Palana Devata

Hare Rama Krsna

They are Kali rupas from the point of view of Bhu shakti, Sri shakti, and Nila (kali) Shaktis. Look at Sanjay’s foundations of Vedic astrology.
All 33 crore devattas can be divided into 33, which can be divided into the 3 functions of Brahma, Shiva, and Visnu.

You can research the nav durga on the net but the only place I know of then is from the “Devi Mahatmya”, the text itself and the kavach before it. I have about 6 translations of the text so it is available in the US. There are mantras for all of the Devis in the “Mantra Mahaarnava”, if you get a translated copy of that let me knowJ

Kali Mahavidya is the rupa which removes the negativity of Shani. All the Mahavidyas are Kali Shakti Rupas removing the negativity of different planets and houses, Kali Devi is one of the Mahavidyas as well, and there are a multitude of forms for that form of Kali Devi, like Chandi and Chamunda to name the popular ones. Be prepared for different traditions to tell you different views. The Hindu pantheon is a multidimensional matrix, it is not a linear family tree.

Namah Sivaya
Freedom

-----Original Message-----
From: Karen Skoler [mailto:nykaren@...]
Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2003 8:30 PM
To: srijagannath@yahoogroups.comSubject: Re: [SJC: Achyuta Gurukul] Re: Achyuta Gurukul] #3 Palana Devata

Dear Freedom,

Thanks for giving the Nava Durga forms, I never read about them before. Can I ask where you learned about them or how I can read more. I also never knew that the das Mahavidya were all kali rupa, did I understand that correctly? I naturally just thought that that just Saturn was Kali.

For those interested, I'm listing the forms of Lakshmi as given in Narayan's paper that he presented at the 2003 conference in Edison. Hopefully the paper and recording of the conference wil lbe coming out soon.

Maha Lakshmi and her 8 rupa forms

Sun: Dhanya Lakshmi
Moon: Dhana Lakshmi
Mars:Dhaara Lakshmi
Mercury:Vidya Lakshmi
Venus: Maha Lakshmi
Jupiter: Santaana Lakshmi
Saturn:Adi Lakshmi
Rahu: Vijaya Lakshmi
Kutu:Gaja Lakshmi

I'd like to also like to post the list of Devi associated wit the Vishnu avatars that Sanjay-ji mentioned in the 2002 conference, but I'll have to review them first.

Thanks again Freedom

Best Regards,
Karen


Hare Rama Krsna

You also have the Navadurgas:Sun-Shaylaputra (daughter of the Mountains)Moon- MahagauriMars- SkandamataMercury- KatyayaniJupiter- Brahmacharini
Venus- Kushmandi
Saturn- KalaratriRahu- Chandraganta (bell of the Moon)Ketu- Siddhidatri (giver of siddhis)

And there is a list of the different Rupas of Laksmi, I know Narayan Iyer talked about them in one of his lectures at the 2003 East Coast conferences. We should get him to upload them.

The Mahavidyas (Kali Rupas) should only be used if you know what you are doing with them, otherwise it is better to use a Laxsmi or Durga Rupa. As The Kali rupas can destroy significations, they are generally used to remove negative effects of planets not normally for the supportive Palana devata.

The Palana devata is the deity that will provide for your material needs in this life. Like a mother She will see to it that you have food, home, resources etc.

Jyotirlinga Mantras

--- In vedic-astrology@yahoogroups.com, "Narasimha P.V.R. Rao"<pvr@c...> wrote:

Namaste friends,

Rao Nemani gave the following wonderful compilation that should behandy to most. However, there are minor mistakes with the use of visarga sandhi. Whena sound comes after visarga (h sound as in namah), what happens to itdepends on what is before visarga and what is after it. Namah does notnecessarily become namo always. If you learn Sanskrit language, you can learn the systematic rules of visarga sandhi (sandhi=joining oftwo words into one word due to continuous pronunciation). I am correcting the mantras for your reference.

Sun Raameswara Om NamasSivaaya NamoRaameswaraaya
Moon Somanaatha Om NamasSivaaya NamasSomanaathaaya
Mars Bhimeswara Om NamasSivaaya NamoBhimashankaraaya
Mercury Mallikaarjuna Om NamasSivaaya NamoMallikaarjunaaya
Jupiter Omkaareswara Om NamasSivaaya NamaOmkaareswaraaya(or
Om NamasSivaya Namah Omkareswaraya - without sandhi/joining)
Venus Tryambakeswara Om NamasSivaaya NamasTryambakeswaraaya
Saturn Kaaleswara Om NamasSivaaya NamahKaaleswaraaya
Rahu Naageswara Om NamasSivaaya NamoNaageswaraaya
Ketu Viswanaatha Om NamasSivaaya NamoViswanaathaaya


May Jupiter's light shine on us,
Narasimha

Dwadasa Jyotirlinga Stotra

Saurashtre Somanathamcha Srisaile Mallikarjunam
Ujjayinya Mahakalam Omkaramamaleswaram
Paralyam Vaidyanathancha Dakinyam Bheema Shankaram
Setu Bandhethu Ramesam, Nagesam Darukavane
Varanasyantu Vishwesam Tryambakam Gautameethate
Himalayetu Kedaaram, Ghrishnesamcha shivaalaye
Etani jyotirlingani, Saayam Praatah Patennarah
Sapta Janma Kritam pApam, Smaranena Vinashyati