The Medicine Buddha Mantra (Full - with translation)

Om namo bhagawate Bhaishjaye guru
vaidurya prabha rajaya tathagataya
arhate samyaksam buddhaya teyatha
om bekhajye bekhajye maha bekhajye
bekhajye rajaya samungate svaha

 

The Mantra word for word

• OM: We begin with Om the under-current tone of the universe.
• NAMO: Means yielding or full of trust also can mean to bend or bow and might mean to melt into.
• bhagawate: means in intimate relation to the Divine and often means the entire cosmos
• Bhaishjaye: a name for the Medicine Buddha
• guru: Spiritual Master also means the “that” which transmutes ignorance into wisdom
• vaidurya prabha: Divine deep blue light, like that of Lapis Lazuli.
• Rajaya: means Great King
• Tathagataya: means once came or once gone
• arhate: one who has conquered the cycle of birth death
• samyaksam buddhaya: perfectly enlightened
• teyatha: do it like this
• OM: Again we begin with Om the under-current tone of the universe
• bekhajye bekhajye: do away with the pain of illness
• maha bekhajye: do away with the pain of illness (of the darkness of Spiritual Ignorance)
• bekhajye: do away with the pain of illness
• Samudgate: means the supreme heights. Like this, go go go
• (my prayer shall go to the highest and the widest and the deepest.
• svaha: I offer this prayer and now relinquish it … (to you Medicine Buddha)