Loter means
“knowledge giver” and Yangchenma means “melodious, one who possesses melodies”
or “source of melodies”. So she
is called Drolma Loter Yangchenma: Melodious Liberator, Source of Wisdom. In
Sanskrit she is called both Sarasvati and Vajrasarasvati.
ཨོཾ་རྗེ་བཙུན་མ་འཕགས་མ་སྒྲོལ་མ་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་ལོ། །
om jetsünma pakma drolma la chaktsal lo
Oṃ, Homage to the noble
lady Tārā!
ཕྱག་འཚལ་སྟོན་ཀའི་ཟླ་བ་ཀུན་ཏུ། །
chaktsal
tönké dawa küntu
Homage to you whose countenance
གང་བ་བརྒྱ་ནི་བརྩེགས་པའི་ཞལ་མ། །
gangwa gya ni tsekpé shyalma
Resembles a hundred full autumnal moons,
སྐར་མ་སྟོང་ཕྲག་ཚོགས་པ་རྣམས་ཀྱིས། །
karma tongtrak tsokpa nam kyi
Smiling and glowing with brilliant light,
རབ་ཏུ་ཕྱེ་བའི་འོད་རབ་འབར་མ། །
rabtu chewé ö rab barma
Like the radiance of a thousand stars.
The “Lady with a
shining face like an array of hundred autumn full moons,” means her face is a
hundred times fairer and more beautiful than the moon.
Her right hand holds a mirror, which is like a full moon
engraved with an HRI syllable.
The “perfect spacious constellation of a thousand stars,” refers
to the field of her wisdom, which is abundantly spacious, and vast, like the
countless, resplendent rays of the full moon.
This light clears
the darkness of the ignorance of practitioners, which is the cause of dullness,
disease and possession by evils.
It opens the door to the treasury of knowledge by illuminating
the light of the four specific perfect understandings.
These are the
perfect understanding of the Dharma (teachings) the perfect understanding of
the definitive meaning, perfect confidence (in the doctrine) and the perfect
knowledge of the Victorious Ones, (brilliance).
According to a tantra, the inner meaning is “to serve the mother
of the sphere” which means emptiness or the nature of mind.
In order to look at
our innate self, the face of the ultimate Vajravarahi, we must accumulate merit
and purify our mind-streams, so that they are like an “array of a hundred pure
white moons.”
Because of these practices, the door to her blessing will be
opened by our true inclination. In that way, we can see ultimate luminosity and
ignite our dynamic wisdom.
She has one face,
two arms and two legs. She sits in the dismounting posture. Her right hand is
in the mudra of supreme charity. Her left hand, in the Three Jewels mudra,
holds an utpala flower blooming at her ear.
On its pistil is a clear ritual mirror (melong) marked with the
syllable HRIM, radiating light. She opens the treasure of wisdom, the blazing
display of supreme knowledge of all the Victorious Ones and their sons.
This wisdom of the four analytical knowledges instantly and
completely dispels the darkness of stupidity and ignorance of all sentient
beings. Thus, meditate on Vajra Sarasvati and recite the mantra.
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