This mantra is addressed to the trinity of Hinduism, composed of Brahma (the creator), Vishnu (the preserver) and Shiva (the destroyer). The mantra comes from the Rigveda, a collection of scriptures about 4000 or so years old. I'm a latecomer to the scene as I learned it yesterday.
Om tryambakaṃ yajāmahe sugandhiṃ puṣṭi-vardhanam
urvārukam iva bandhanān mṛtyor mukṣīya māmṛtāt
Some interesting translations (note to self: learn Sansrit):
We meditate on the Three-eyed reality which nourishes and increases the sweet fullness of life. Like a cucumber from its stem may we be separated ("liberated"), not from immortality but from death.
We Meditate on the Three-eyed reality
Which permeates and nourishes all like a fragrance.
May we be liberated from death for the sake of immortality,
Even as the cucumber is severed from bondage to the creeper.
We worship the Three-eyed One who is fragrant, immensely merciful and who is the Protector of the devotees. May he liberate us from death for the sake of immortality, Even as the cucumber is severed from bondage to the creeper.
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