Monday, April 22, 2019

In Praise of the Özer Chenma (Goddess Marici)


Ozer Chenma has the power to withdraw and eliminate calamity. She travels in front of the sun 365 days a year and vowed to protect dharma disciples day and night. 

To get her protection, stop eating pork (pig) and recite the following prayer. 

༄༅། །ལྷ་མོ་འོད་ཟེར་ཅན་ལ་བསྟོད་པ། །
In Praise of the Goddess Mārīcī

ཨོཾ་ལྷ་མོ་འོད་ཟེར་ཅན་མ་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་ལོ། །
om, lhamo özer chenma la chaktsal lo
Oṃ! Homage to the goddess Mārīcī!

ཕྱག་འཚལ་བདུད་ཀྱི་བདུད་དགྲ་ཆེན་མོ། །
chaktsal dü kyi dü dra chenmo
Homage to her, the great enemy of the māras!

གཞན་གྱིས་མི་ཐུབ་རྣམ་པར་འཇོམས་མ། །
shyen gyi mitub nampar jomma
Utterly invincible, vanquisher of all,

ཉི་མ་ཟླ་བའི་མདུན་ནས་འགྲོ་ཞིང༌། །
nyima dawé dün né dro shying
She who travels before the sun and moon,

ཆུ་སྲིན་རྒྱལ་མཚན་རྣམ་པར་སྐྲོད་མ། །
chusin gyaltsen nampar tröma
And drives away Makaradhvaja, God of Desire

ཁྱོད་ལ་གསོལ་བ་བཏབ་པ་ཙམ་གྱིས། །
khyö la solwa tabpa tsam gyi
Simply by praying to you,

དགྲ་ཡི་དཔུང་ནི་རྣམ་པར་ཆོམས་ཤིག །
dra yi pung ni nampar chom shik
May the hosts of opposing forces be destroyed!

བསད་དང་དབྱེ་དང་བསྐྲད་རྨོངས་བྱེར་བས། །
sé dang yé dang tré mong jerwé
Slay them, divide them, drive them away, confuse them and disperse them,

ཕྱོགས་ལས་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་དངོས་གྲུབ་སྩོལ་ཅིག །
chok lé namgyal ngödrub tsol chik
And grant us the siddhi of total victory over all adversity!

དུས་འཁྲུགས་གི་འཇིགས་པ་སྐྱོབ་ཕྱིར་རིག་འཛིན་འཇིགས་བྲལ་གླིང་པས་སོ།། །།

The vidyādhara Jikmé Lingpa wrote this in order to bring protection from fear in these turbulent times.
(Marichi (Tibetan: ozer chen ma): the Goddess of the Dawn. 
At the top is red Marichi with one face and two hands riding a horse. In the upraised right hand is a red sun. The left hand holds a white lotus flower. She rides atop a white horse above a very large image of the sun.  The large red circular sun is gold fringed and adorned in the center with three-legged crow, portrayed here as a golden rooster. Below that is Marichi in her obstacle removing form, yellow in colour, with three faces and eight hands, riding on a chariot drawn by seven sows)


𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐨𝐫𝐣𝐞

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