Noble Lady Tara Tummo Zhengyi
Mithubma, Unconquerable Fierce Lady Who Dispels Wars and Natural Disasters.
The seventh Tara is
known as Zhengyi Mithumba. Her name means “unconquerable, cannot be defeated by
others.” She destroys all negativities.
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་ཏྲཌ་ཅེས་བྱ་དང་ཕཊ་ཀྱིས། །
chaktsal tré cheja dang pé
kyi
Homage to you, who with traḍ and phaṭ
ཕ་རོལ་འཁྲུལ་འཁོར་རབ་ཏུ་འཇོམས་མ། །
parol
trulkhor rabtu jomma
Crush the enemies’ yantras to
dust.
གཡས་བསྐུམ་གཡོན་བརྐྱང་ཞབས་ཀྱིས་མནན་ཏེ། །
yé
kum yön kyang shyab kyi nen té
With right leg bent in and left leg extended,
མེ་འབར་འཁྲུག་པ་ཤིན་ཏུ་འབར་མ། །
mé
bar trukpa shintu barma
You stand, radiant
amidst a mass of blazing fire.
The seventh homage is to Tumo
Zhenge Methubma, the “Unchallenged Furious Lady”, who averts wars, lightning
and hailstorms by intoning TRAT and PHAT, which in Sanskrit means to tear and
cut. These syllables thwart the
magical wheels of the intentional evil deeds of the eight classes of spirits.
They avert
lightning strikes and hailstorms, and destroy cannons and other weapons of war.
To depict that she has gone beyond of the extremes of samsara and nirvana by
her compassion and realization of emptiness, her right leg is outstretched and
her left leg is drawn in, and tramples on malignant beings.
She conquers all
fears of nirvana and samsara with her power of realization of emptiness and
compassion. She is black, and sits amidst flames. Her wrathful wrinkles whirl
like ocean waves.
Homage is paid to
the lady who wields a mystically blazing sword held atop a blue lotus that
burns all foes to ashes.
The inner meaning
of her outstretched and drawn in legs is the sensory cognitions; when the
sensory cognitions perceive and harmonize the sensory objects, the samsaric
wars arise.
By saying tear and
cut, she severs attachment to sensory objects and purifies them. This is the
base of the male and female Bodhisattvas.
On a throne of a
lotus and moon appears Tummo Zhengyi Mithubma, black like dense rainclouds.
Blazing wisdom fire
surrounds her. Her wrathful frown undulates like waves in a stormy ocean. She
sits in the dismounting posture. She has one face and two arms, her hair is
tucked up.
Her right hand is
in the mudra of supreme charity. Her left hand, in the Three Jewels mudra,
holds an open utpala flower blooming at her ear.
On its pistil is a
sword, blazing with a mass of fire. It crushes all into dust both the magic
spells of the eight classes of spirits, which cause hail and lightening, and
the machine of war: weapons of mass destruction, enemies and killers. Meditate
on this and recite the mantra.
