“Mantra is a mystical energy bound to a series of sounds“. This and many other aspects of yogic knowledge will be featured on this page! Many of the quotes and information come from my yoga manual from an ashram. With gratitude, I was able to attend a 200 hour yoga teacher training in Rishikesh, India in the fall of 2012. The Anand Prakash Yoga Ashram is an incredible place in central Northern India directly next to the Ganges and Himalayas! Our teacher Yogi Vishvaketu Ji opened and expanded us during our month together. We were eager for further enlightenment and that is what we found! We were open enough to allow the guru inside us develop. All of the various practices and teachings will stay with us, and will hopefully be shared throughout our lives and practices as eternal yoga students and teachers. Chanting mantra was a part of the ashram life and it is a tool that I hope to always engage. This is a particular mantra that we chanted often and its effects were very harmonizing! Much gratitude and grace to the World Conscious Yoga Family for giving me such a vehicle of transformative experience! It is my humble hope that I may share it with others in some capacity.
It is a joy and honour to communicate various lessons, observations and more through the medium of this yoga blog. I hope to use it to share my experiences and mostly, spread and cultivate the knowledge and love of yoga in all of its forms - which are limitless!
This powerful healing mantra is used to send ancient vibrational energy throughout the mind, body and soul. It clears, it opens, it releases. It is even supposed to elevate the immune system! This mantra is called the Maha Mrityunjaya Mantra. Perhaps you are accustomed to chanting and maybe you have never tried it before! I know that before I tried meditations longer than Om Shanti Shanti Shanti I was reluctant to dive into these mysterious words so foreign in content and purpose!
I have particularly noticed its healing effects when I send the effort of vibrations to the areas of my body that carry tension and act as a storage space for emotional baggage. Saying it enough times in a mantra meditation in a group or on your own is very powerful and you will feel noticeably different after this practice!
All you can do is try! Take a listen to the mantra in the video and try it out, probably a lot slower at first! Perhaps it is useful to begin with breaking down the words to experiment with pronunciation. Maybe chanting along with the song in the link can aid you. Soon you will be able to confidently chant this healing mantra!
Om triyambakam yajamahai
sugandhim pushtivardanam
urvaukamiva bandhanan
mrityor mokshiya mamritat
we meditate on Shiva - the 3 eyed one
knower of past, present and future
who permeates and nourishes all like a fragrance
as in due time the stem of the cucumber weakens
and the gourd is freed from the vine
so release us from attachment to the material
and liberate us into the eternal
THANKYOU INDIA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THANKYOU INDIA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
