The Maha-Mrtyun-Jaya Mantra
The Great Victory over Death/Mortality Mantra

A prayer to invoke the culmination of the practice of letting go of the illusion of limitation and death.

Sanskrit

Transliteration

Translation

Om. We worship Tryambakam* by whose grace we are increasingly strengthened and nourished to a state of perfect readiness… like the ripe melon that is effortlessly released from its vine, leaving no scar. Please liberate us from identification with the mortal body and its certain death, and from the illusion of all limitation, which is like death. And do not let us forget the imperishable nature of the soul, nor our own immortality.

*literally— "Three Eyed One" (Siva) symbolizing perfect knowledge of the three realms—physical, thought, spirit