Noble Lady Tara
Rabzhima, Perfectly Calm One, Pacifying Evil Deeds and Obscuration.
Tara Rabzhima’s
special activity is purifying our most serious errors and greatest
obscurations, so she is called the Tara of purification. Rabzhima means
“supremely peaceful”.
ཨོཾ་རྗེ་བཙུན་མ་འཕགས་མ་སྒྲོལ་མ་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་ལོ། །
om jetsünma pakma drolma
la chaktsal lo
Homage to the noble lady Tārā!
ཕྱག་འཚལ་བདེ་མ་དགེ་མ་ཞི་མ། །
chaktsal dé ma gé ma shyi
ma
Homage to you, blissful, gracious and tranquil,
མྱ་ངན་འདས་ཞི་སྤྱོད་ཡུལ་ཉིད་མ། །
nya
ngen dé shyi chöyul nyi ma
Whose domain is the peace of nirvāṇa.
སྭཱ་ཧཱ་ཨོཾ་དང་ཡང་དག་ལྡན་པས། །
soha
om dang yangdak denpé
With oṃ and svāhā in perfect union,
སྡིག་པ་ཆེན་པོ་འཇོམས་པ་ཉིད་མ། །
dikpa
chenpo jompa nyi ma
You lay to waste every terrible evil.
The fifteenth homage is to
Rabtu Zhima, the “Perfect Pacifier”, who pacifies the obscuration of negative
karma.
She sits on blue
lotus, and is peaceful. Her color is white like a crystal moon and she holds an
anointing vase. She is free from the fruition of suffering, and as a result,
she is blissful She has eliminated non-virtue, and as a result, she is
virtuous.
Her afflictions
have ended, and as a result, she is tranquil. She has gone beyond the
sufferings of the two obscurations and she enjoys and abides in the sphere of
sublime tranquility. By her power of compassion, and power of reciting
perfectly in accordance with the sadhana her twenty-three or eighteen syllable
mantras, the five heinous negative karmas that make beings fall into the lower
realms, and other karma that generates great sufferings are uprooted and
purified.
The mantra includes
the additional syllables, OM at the beginning and SVAHA at the end. The
ultimate meaning is that her blissfulness and other qualities are connected to
the five wisdom minds: the wisdom of absolute space, mirror-like wisdom, the
wisdom of equality, discriminating wisdom, and all-accomplishing wisdom.
On the throne of
lotus and moon appears Noble Lady Tara Rabzhima, white like the full moon and
smiling. She sits in the dismounting posture.
She has one face
and two arms. Her right hand is in the mudra of supreme charity. Her left hand,
in the mudra of the Three Jewels, holds the stem of an utpala flower blooming
at her ear. On its pistil stands an anointing vase filled with nectar.
From her heart
emanate countless purifying goddesses, looking the same as Tara and holding
vases. Oneself and others are put on a moon throne.
By the light
radiating from Noble Lady and the bath bestowed by the emanated goddesses, all
evil deeds and obscurations causing rebirth in the lower realms are washed
away.
Meditate on this
and recite the mantra.
