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Chanted to overcome death, serious illness, accidents and fear. Grants liberation, health and long life. Used in homa for healing and protection.
महामृत्युंजय मंत्र
When to recite: During illness, fear, accidents, daily for protection, on Shiva occasions
The Maha Mrityunjaya Mantra is a Vedic mantra to Tryambaka Shiva, the three-eyed Lord. It is recited for protection, healing prayer, courage during crisis, and ultimately for release from the bondage of death.
The image of a ripe cucumber separating from its stem is central: the devotee asks to be freed from mortality and fear without being cut off from amrita, the deathless truth. It is therefore both a protective mantra and a moksha-oriented prayer.
The mantra worships Shiva as fragrant and nourishing, then prays: as a ripe fruit is released from bondage, may we be released from death, not from immortality. Its emphasis is freedom from fear and bondage, not denial of practical responsibility.
Devanagari / Hindi script
ॐ त्र्यम्बकं यजामहे सुगन्धिं पुष्टिवर्धनम्। उर्वारुकमिव बन्धनान्मृत्योर्मुक्षीय माऽमृतात्॥