[Advaita-l] mRtyunjaya mantra commentary

Raghav Kumar Dwivedula raghavkumar00 at gmail.com
Sun Mar 31 23:58:07 EDT 2024


Namaste
Is there any commentary on the mRtyunjaya mantra - "त्र्यम्बकं यजामहे ..."

In particular does the उर्वारुक refer to the yellow cucumber which needs to
be manually cut from it's vine. (It does not "fall off by itself" as is
often wrongly assumed esp. in the context of the mantra). Ishvara's
intervention/grace is this required for mukti - that is the idea. There is
a common mistranslation which says that the mRtyunjaya mantra refers to the
"automatic/natural falling off of the उर्वारुक" - something that in fact
never happens.

In view of the above, I was trying to locate an accurate commentary or
reference about what exactly is the उर्वारुक fruit and why it's analogy is
invoked.

Any information on this is welcome।

Om
Raghav


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