Whatever way you may be choose, remember that each word should be pronounced correctly and your focus should be on the meaning of the mantra while chanting and it has to be chanted with utter faith, then only can it give you desired results.
This mantra can be chanted individually or in groups. It is believed that knowledge grasping ability increases at this hour and the powers of devdas can be invoked. The ideal time to chant the mantra is between 2-4 am. Chanting this mantra everyday fills you with peace and creates an energy bubble around you that protects you from negative energy, Whoever interacts with you can enter into the energy bubble and feel protected.Chanting this mantra becomes a medium to please our beloved Bholenaath. Bholenaath, as shiva is referred to is truly naïve and worshipping him with utter faith will give you immense contentment and protect you from sufferings.Chanting this mantra will protect you from all kinds of accidents and diseases. Death will come when it has to but untimely death takes away our right to live. Everything is written already by the supreme being.Chanting Mahamritunjaya mantra will take away the fear of death, invoking the will to live and heal. It is the fear which stops us from living. Many great philosophers have said and gone that we must fear a life unlived and not death. Death will come to each one of us that is the truth we cannot turn away from.The universe got disbalanced and asked Shiva to grant Yama his life, so he did but only on one condition that Markandeya would live forever. On seeing this, Shiva became angry and killed Yama. On his 16th birthday, Lord Yama to take his soul but he was engrossed in deep meditative state. As his 16th birthday was approaching, they were becoming depressed and revealed the whole story to their son. They were soon blessed with a son, who was named Markandeya but he could only live for 16 years. An intelligent son with a short life or a son with low intelligence but a long life. Everything went as planned, Bholenaath got pleased but gave them two choices. They took a long penance to please Lord Shiva so that, in return he may give them the boon of a child. Sage Mrikandu and Marudmati, his wife were childless. As is the ripened cucumber freed from its bondage (to the creeper), may He liberate us from death for the sake of immortality.
Meaning: We worship the Three-eyed Lord who is fragrant and who nourishes and nurtures all beings. The combination of sounds that are embedded in the mantra, if chanted regularly liberates a human being from the cycle of life and birth. The mantra is divided into four lines, each containing eight syllables.
The mantra itself is actually comprised from mantras which are found in the three Vedas: The Rig Veda (7th mandal, 59th chapter, 12th mantra), the Yajur Veda (3rd chapter, 60th mantra), and the Atharva Veda (14th mandal, 1st chapter, 17th mantra). Our ancient Vedas are a package of knowledge, healing and life restoring powers.
The one who is beyond the consciousness, subconsciousness, dream and waking state of a human being. He is the absolute truth, The Transcendent Lord. This mantra is an ode to the supreme yogi, Shiva. It is also called Mrita-Sanjivini mantra because chanting this mantra restores life and prevent us from diseases. MRITUNJAYA – The one who has transcendent death.