Swami Shivapadananda on the healing power of the Mahamrityunjaya Mantra

SWAMI SHIVAPADANANDA

DAILY

READINGS

Taken from Mother Radha’s
notes, written at Swamiji’s feet.

Day 343

 

The guru is One – is light. I go to the guru when I realise I am
ignorant, and that this ignorance is dreadful, is causing all this unhappiness.
The guru helps to dispel the darkness. The light must be there, but unless I am
awake it will not do anything for me.

 

Craving is caused by contact with the senses. Meditation breaks the
contact.

 

From sensation comes thought and ideas. And these lead to desire.

 

If the past worries you ask [the Divine] Mother to bury it. Live in the present. Be
attached to God’s feet, not to the past.

 

To be an instrument of peace, I must be peace myself. To become love, we
must be rid of all other qualities.

 

Evil is turning from God. Good is turning towards God.

 

See the Murthi [sculpture, statue, picture or other representation] as
living, as moving, as sitting. You think it has no life? It has. See it.

 

The seed mantra is the navel [umbilical] cord to the guru. He switches
it on and so on. The guru takes the chela’s [disciple’s] karma, he absorbs it
into himself. For example, cancer and so on, he can take it and plant it in his
own skin, and watch it.

 

For healing do one mala [rosary of prayer beads] of the guru mantra
[sacred sound syllable or God’s names] and one mala of Om Tryambakam. [See
footnote].

 

Happiness and sadness – they are all in the mind. See this, and say, ‘I
want only God, not the mind and senses, only God.’

Footnote: The transliterated ‘Mahamrityunjaya Mantra‘ – to be recited in times of sickness, calamity, natural disasters and death, from the Ramakrishna Dham prayer book, with English meaning below, reads as follows:

Om tryambakam yajaamahe, sugandhim pushtivardhanam

Urvaarukamiva bandhanaat, mrityor mukshiya maamritaat

We worship the three-eyed One (Lord Shiva, destroyer of ignorance), who is fragrant and who nourishes all beings. May he liberate me/us from death, for the sake of immortality, even as the cucumber is severed from (its bondage of) the vine [pictured].

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