Noble Lady
Tara Lhamo Odzer Chenma, Goddess Endowed with Light, Who Ransoms the Longevity
and Life-force of the sick.
Tara
Ozer Chenma is the divine great Mother of “brilliant light rays”, Ozer. She is
particularly beneficial to us because she can protect our longevity. She helps
us when our energy, vitality, or life force is endangered. She is also renowned
as protectress of animals.
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་དེ་ཉིད་གསུམ་རྣམས་བཀོད་པས། །
chaktsal denyi sum nam köpé
Homage
to you, who have the power to free,
ཞི་བའི་མཐུ་དང་ཡང་དག་ལྡན་མ། །
shyiwé tu dang yangdak den ma
You put
forth the realities as a set of three.
གདོན་དང་རོ་ལངས་གནོད་སྦྱིན་ཚོགས་རྣམས། །
dön dang rolang nöjin tsok
nam
Supreme
Ture, you completely destroy
འཇོམས་པ་ཏུ་རེ་རབ་མཆོག་ཉིད་མ། །
jompa turé rab chok nyi ma
The
hordes of grahas, vetālas, and yakṣas.
རྩ་བའི་སྔགས་ཀྱི་བསྟོད་པ་འདི་དང་། །
tsawé ngak kyi töpa di dang
This
Praise with the twenty-one verses of homage
ཕྱག་འཚལ་བ་ནི་ཉི་ཤུ་རྩ་གཅིག །
chaktsalwa ni nyishu tsa chik
Is
itself the root mantra.
The
twenty-first praise is the homage to Lhamo Odser Chenma, the “Goddess with
Brilliance”, who can restore the life force. She is white, her left hand is in
the boon-giving mudra, and her right hand is in the refuge-giving mudra,
holding a blue lotus on which sit the auspicious golden fishes.
At
her three places: crown, throat, and heart, are OM, AH, and HUNG, respectively,
which form the sublime protection against all obstacles. The light rays from these
letters protect the three doors of beings from the harm of all outer obstacles
caused by evil forces, both form and formless. They also protect beings from
the inner obstacles of ill health, and the secret obstacles of dualistic
affliction.
The
rays have the power to pacify them without a trace. Particularly, the rays from
the three letters can restore the life force stolen by spirits, zombies, and
yakshas, and eliminate their harmful intentions and actions. The homage is to
TURE, the great compassionate lady who acts swiftly for the benefit of sentient
beings. The true meaning is that Tara has the power to guide the minds of
beings to be tamed in the “three approaches to liberation”.
These
are: emptiness, attributelessness and aspirationlessness, or, the suchness of
an entity, its nature and compassion, and the clearing of all its obscurations.
Ultimately the Vajra body, speech and mind are the primordially pure nature of
all phenomena. By meditating on the sphere of the indivisibility of the three Vajras,
the demons, sufferings, zombies, and yakshas are transformed by the great bliss
of primordial wisdom.
Yozer
Chenma, white in color, with one face and two arms. She sits in the dismounting
posture. 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 is a golden fish. Light radiates from the three syllables OM AH HUM
of her body, speech and mind. It summons those who steal the vitality and
longevity of the sick: the dön spirits of suffering, rolangs of karma and
yakshas of disturbing emotions. The vitality and longevity are brought back as
a gift, collected and returned (to their owners). Visualizing this, recite the
mantra.
This
completes the write up on 21 Taras.
May you all
the blessed.
