Maha Mrityunjaya Mantra - Mantra To Lord Shiva

Will be picking up and learn this mantra this weekend from my yoga teacher.

Om Tryambhakam Yajamahe
Sugandhim Pushtivardhanam
Urvarukamiva Bandhanan
Mrityor Mukshiya Maamritat

(Taken from mahashivratri.org)
The Maha Mrityunjay Mantra or Lord Shiva Mantra is considered extremely powerful and significant by the Hindus. Also known as the Moksha Mantra of Lord Shiva, chanting of Maha Mrityunjaya Mantra is said to create divine vibrations that heals. Devotees of Lord Shiva further believe that Maha Mrityunjay evokes the Shiva within human beings and removes the fear of death, liberating one from the cycle of death and rebirth.

Significance of Maha Mrityunjaya Mantra

Devotees strongly believe that proper recitation of the Maha Mrityunjaya rejuvenates, bestows health, wealth, long life, peace, prosperity and contentment. It is said that chanting of Shiva Mantra generates divine vibrations that ward off all the negative and evil forces and creates a powerful protective shield. Besides, it is said to protect the one who chants against accidents and misfortunes of every kind. Recitation of the mantra creates vibration that pulsates through every cell, every molecule of human body and tears away the veil of ignorance. Hindus believe that recitation of the mantra ignites a fire within that consumes all negativity and purifies entire system. It is also said to have a strong healing power and can cure diseases declared incurable even by the doctors. Many believe Maha Mrityunjay Mantra to be a mantra that can conquer death and connect human beings to their own inner divinity.

Meaning:
Om. We worship The Three-Eyed Lord Shiva who is fragrant and who increasingly nourishes the devotees. Worshipping him may we be liberated from death for the sake of immortality just as the ripe cucumber easily separates itself from the binding stalk.

Explanation:
The mantra is a prayer to Lord Shiva who is addressed as Sankara and Trayambaka. Sankara is sana (blessings) and Kara (the Giver). Trayambaka is the three eyed one (where the third eye signifies the giver of knowledge, which destroys ignorance and releases us from the cycle of death and rebirth).

I managed to find some translation for each word in the mantra as well.

OM	Almighty God
Tryambakam	three-eyed
Yajamahe	We worship, adore, honor, revere
Sugandhim	sweet fragrance
Pushti	A well-nourished condition, thriving, prosperous, full, and complete
Vardhanam	One who nourishes, strengthens, causes to increase (in health, wealth, well-being); who gladdens, exhilarates, and restores health; a good gardener
Urvarukam	disease, attachment, obstacles in life, and resulting depression
Iva	Like, just as
Bandhanan	Stem (of the gourd); but more generally, unhealthy attachment
Mrityor	From death
Mukshiya	Free us, liberate us
Ma	not
Amritat	Immortality, emancipation

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A Little Tiny Seed - A Poem Dedicated To My Soul

Last weekend while I was doing my laundry work, I hum this poem out following my heart rythm. Later, I keep thinking of incorporating some yoga asana into this poem and make it as a theater play.

Here's the original script of my poem:

A little tiny seed laying on the ground,
Waiting for the right moment to have its 1st sprout,
With the shiny bright sunshine in the sky & crystal clear water from the sky.
With all the secret kept inside, nobody knows what is going to be.
But the secret is all well kept inside.

With the wind blow across all the trees,
while the tiny little seed still waiting.....
Until one fine day, the little tiny seed awakened with its 1st sprouting,
that marks the beginning of a new face of life.

Everything is gonna change and become different with its 1st sprout.
The well kept secret finaly revealed.
With its 1st flower & its leafing, the beautiful flower open & close, day & night.
This is all a tiny littl eseed waiting for.

The blooming stage finally reached and that's the special moment every tiny little seed waiting for.
(written on 30 Jan 2010, 9:40am)

If you read through the poem carefully, I hope you can feel my heart rythm & its message.
The message that I am trying to convey her is the seeding stage that every little tiny seed has and its final blooming.
The seed resemble a person, who needs time, effort, experience and etc to cultivate whatever it is required for his own growing and seeding. The seeding is the most important stage. It is the stage where a person gather whatever it is required in order to bring him to highest peak or allow him to make a breakthrough.

When all the things are ready and the seeding stage consider complete, that person will wait for the right moment for a perfect blooming. When the blooming stage is reached, we have completed the full cycle of life or we have reached the harvest season.

That's the purpose of life and I believed each individual is bestowed with hidden seed inside. Along our life, we pick up whatever we needs, throw always whatever not needed, cultivate good values, sharpen our skills, gather our strength and discover our true self in order to discover the tiny little seed being planted inside our heart. That's what I mean by seeding stage.

I know that this poem still need some finetuning. Well definitely will do that when the moment comes.

Hope one day I can make this a real theater play/dance by combining yoga asana with this poem and the rythm in my heart.

Namaste !

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Seven Lessons of Life

I getting to know about these 7 valuable life lessons from an article sent by my project manager. These lessons really inspire me and I would like to say thanks to him for sharing it out with us.

Lesson No #1: Stop analyzing the past and worrying about the future and choose to live in the moment.
Lesson No #2: When you are learning a new skill or activity, give yourself time to learn. Try not to
get worried or frustrated when you make mistakes, instead, try and see the humor in
the situation and enjoy the journey.
Lesson No #3: Believe in your dreams with a ‘Child Like’ faith.
Lesson No #4: Seize every opportunity you get to laugh out loud.
Lesson No #5: When you love someone, let them know.
Lesson No #6: If you’re carrying a grudge – let it go and move on. A grudge gets heavier the
longer you carry it.
Lesson No #7: Take the time to stop and look at the world around you through the eyes of a child.
It really is an amazing place!

I particularly attracted by lesson #3 & #7. I remember I have posted before an article about Inner Child living in each one of us. We need to spend time to reconnect with our inner child as our source of inspiration. We shall claim for it all the time.

Namaste !

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Here's My Vision To The Sociey & The World

You need time to accumulate all the right points, energy and come up with your own vision. It never been an easy job to do so. Rather than a click of spark, a vision required some substantial ground work, and then slowly it build up to the actual one. Finally I can see my own vision very clearly after all those sweat and tears and maybe doubts too.

Here's a path that I would like to paint out for myself :

"Promoting a better health management among the society in order to reach a balance life style"

That's my vision statement.

Well here lays the statement of my vision and these shall be the forces/pushes to direct the energy towards the vision:-

1) Promote yoga among young generation, by combining dance element with yoga innovatively
2) Encourage yoga practise among society
3) Organize health talk
4) Sharing healthy cooking styles & recipes
5) Encourage meditation practise
6) Offering 100% natural Merchandize, which good for balancing on body energy field (Ayurveda concept)

With all these forces to be in place, I shall work towards the vision and I shall dedicate my whole life in realizing this vision.

Namaste !

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yoga, spiritual, meditation, kids's yoga

Another Year Ahead

It's another year ahead again. It's always good to start on something new. Something which is not within your comfort zone. Something that can bring a breakthrough to your life. Well, I have planning out a new direction for myself - A Truely My Own Custom-Made plan, just for myself. After went through all those up and downs along the life stream, I guess I have matured enough to plan for myself and my future and where shall I head to.

Time fly and we truely need to grab whatever moment we have now to do whatever our heart desire to do and achieve. When looking back at all those time, you should never and ever regret on whatever that you have done in the past and whatever you haven't done in the past.

Wish my dreams will come true !

Namaste !

PS: I just got a lucky message from the lucky biscuit during my company birthday celebration event. Well the lucky message is "Believe In Your Dreams". It really lifts me up and inspire me a lot. :)

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Ishta Devata

I came across these words while reading through a book about meditation. It sounds beautiful to me when I read it. 'Ishta Devata' means personal god. What a wonderful words that sounds good.

Last week I wrote an email to my yoga teacher, asking her whether is there any chanting classes going to be organized by her yoga center. I was also raised up some questions about mantra & meditation. The reason why is because I feel an urge to start something on it last couple of days ago. That's the reason. Then she replied back to me, saying that not many people are ready for such classes and she will keep it for future planning. She asked me if is there any god that appeals to me, such as buddha or hindu deities. Well so far I have heard of the mantra for Lord Shiva "Om Namah Shivaya", so I replied to her that I have heard of that mantra before. And guess what, she told me that my guardian planet is Saturn and Lord Shiva is my deity. Well, it's never a coincident at all, as I pointed out in my previous post. It's destined to be that way I believe.

My yoga teacher advised me that not to start right away from that mantra, but instead start with the "Mrityunjaya Mantra" first. She is willing to spend a sunday morning with me, to teach me how to start it. It's never be a co-incident but I am the one that request for it through my sending of the right energy field to her. And I know she received my request energy. Thanks for everything that bestow on me and I know it's going to be a very interesting and enjoyable spiritual journey ahead !

Namaste !

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Say Pray...

Few days back I received an sms from one of my friend. The sms content is trying to pass on a praying for those misfortunate Haiti people that hits hard by natural disaster - earth quake. Then I forwarded the sms to my contacts list in the phone. Surprisingly I received a reply from my old colleague he said "I Rather Donate Money To World Vision". I guess he intends to say that the way I am forwarding the sms will not work at all. The best way is to make donation to some charity organization that lends a helping hand to the Haiti people.

Yes, I am quite agreed with it but does money will really save all these people from the next hit of natural disaster. Why the world currently is facing with so many natural disaster and is there anyone can tell me why it happended. There must be a reason behind all the things that happen I do believe. The world is in imbalance state now and the imbalance is caused by too many negative energy being released by the human that living in it. Have you ask why the Europe is facing the worst snowing disaster ever ? And why china is hits bad by the flood ? All are because of imbabalance energy in this world.

I read some report saying that ice age is coming. Yes, I do agreed with it as the world energy field is totally out of order now. But then how to balance back the imbalance ? The answer is do it spiritually via praying, chanting mantra or even meditation will help to balance back the energy field.

The next decade definitely is the decade for spiritual awakening. I saw that sign from the movie - 'AVATAR'. The message is so clear to the audience what kind of awakening the movie is trying convey. The bonding, hulu, saying blessings after a living death and etc, all these are related to spirituality.

The more pray/mantra, the more positive energy being released back to the earth and that's the right way to bring back the balance of this world.

Namaste !

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