This mantra connects us to the healer within and helps us receive the full nourishment from food, herbs, or any discipline undertaken for our total well being. The vibration of this mantra awakens the internal healing force while attracting nature’s healing agents, creating an environment where the forces from both origins converge. It strengthens our powers of will, knowledge and action, thus unblocking the flow of enthusiasm, courage and determination. Ripples from body to psyche and from psyche to soul. May the lord of Immortality residing within me free me from death, decay and sickness and unite me with immortality.Įxplanation: This is a healing and nourishing mantra and is in a sense, “the Heart of Vedas.” The healing force awakened by this mantra sends forth its like a skillful gardener, may the Lord of Life disentangle me from the binding forces of my physical, psychological, and spiritual foes. The Mantra goes beyond just the temporary. Anybody can recite this mantra and attain good health, release from bondage and other problems. Along with the Gayatri mantra it holds the highest place among the many mantras used for contemplation and meditation. The name of the Mantra translates to The Great Victory over the Great Death. The Maha Mrityunjaya mantra is hailed by the sages as the heart of the Veda.

I pray to the Divine Being who manifests in the form of fragrance in the flower of life and is the eternal nourisher of the plant of life. The Maha Mrityunjaya Mantra is an exceptionally powerful tool in helping us develop our subtle faculties thereby maximizing our potential as human beings. Translation: I meditate on, and surrender myself to, the Divine Being who embodies the power of will, the power of knowledge, and the power of action. Credit where it’s due, as he has an amazing voice.Ĭlose your eyes, listen. The original recording by Hein Braat can be heard at the following link. The name of the Mantra translates to The Great Victory over the Great Death. That doesn’t take away from just how special a piece of music it is, but the chant is from the Veda, which is not buddhist, but hindu. The Maha Mrityunjaya Mantra is an exceptionally powerful tool in helping us develop our subtle faculties thereby maximizing our potential as human beings. It’s an urban myth which has been doing the tour for 20 years (but you’re by all means not alone in believing it!). Sorry to say, but this was not the Dalai Lama chanting, but was a recording done by a Dutch performer called Hein Braat, and the original can be bought as a CD.

It has been brought to my attention- a comment below is re-printed here- that this is not Dalai Lama.

Maha mrityunjaya mantra in sanskrit