Ushnisha Vijaya - The goddess of immortality and healing for diseases

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Ushnisha Vijaya in Tibetan is known as Namgyalma or Namgyelma. She is one of the three revered deities of longevity, along with the White Tara and Amitayus Buddha. Ushnisha Vijaya combines aspects of three deities (for this reason her three heads), each associated with a Sadhana (wish).

Ushnisha Vijaya has a white colored body, three faces and eight arms. The middle face is white, symbolizing the elimination for all misfortunes, the right face is yellow manifests her Compassion for all beings, and the left face is blue and to some extent wrathful signifies her skill at cutting through ignorance through wrathful means.

Her three faces, each has three eyes, the yellow one with the gently pursed lips is charming and beautiful, the principal white one somewhat open and moderately wrathful, while the blue face bares its fangs in a display of ferocious wrath. Coils of hair symmetrically fall across her two shoulders. A green scarf embellished with gold engulfs her with a flourish, acting as a halo.

The first right hand holds a crossed Vajra at the heart. The second holds a lotus on top of which sits Amitabha Buddha. The third holds an arrow. The fourth is in the gesture of supreme generosity.

The first left hand is in the threatening Mudra, holding a Vajra noose. The second holds a bow. The third is in the gesture of giving refuge. The fourth is in the meditation gesture, holding a precious vase filled with the nectar of immortality. Ushnisha Vijaya goddess sits on a single lotus seat in front of, but metaphorically within, a Stupa (reliquary mound), which is dictated by her iconography.

If one recites the Ushnisha Vijaya mantra into the ear of an animal, you ensure that this is its last animal rebirth. If somebody suffering from a heavy disease that physicians are unable to diagnose, the Lord Buddha taught the ** Deva Denpa, he or she will be liberated from that disease. Bring to an end all future rebirths in the lower realms and after death be reborn in a blissful pure land.

** There is a story during the time Shakyamuni Buddha, the dying god named Deva Denpa, due to his Karma, and when he starts experiencing the signs of his near death and he predicted his future life is about to be reborn in an animal realm, Deva Denpa very worried and he approach the Buddha Shakyamuni for help, the Buddha manifested as the deity Ushnisha Vijaya and gave him the empowerment of the mantra. Deva Denpa recited the mantra six times daily and in seven days completely changed his karma and he did not have to be reborn in an animal realm. 

Reciting Namgyalma’s mantra with your devotion and faiths. Even if you are in danger of dying because of the karma that determines your lifespan is running out, clean your body, wear clean clothes and abiding in the Vajrayana Sojong practice of confessions or the Mahayana Eight Precepts, recite the Ushnisha Vijaya mantra for thousand times daily, you can increase your lifespan and purify your obscurations and free from diseases that manifest from the bad karma.

If you put the mantra and the banner above the doorway, whoever passes beneath it is purified and not reborn in the lower realms. In Tibet, paper with this mantra written on it was touched to the dead people’s bodies, the mantra purifying their karma and preventing rebirth in the lower realms.  

The Ushnisha Vijaya mantra, it grants victory over illness and receiving blessings for a long and meaningful life benefiting others. This three faced goddess with eight arms is incredibly powerful for granting extension of one’s life through recovery of illness and avoiding premature death through accidents and disasters.  

The Ushnisha Vijaya practice is considered to be extremely effective not only for eliminating obstacles to long life, but also for purifying the negative results of unwholesome actions of body, speech and mind motivated by the poisonous delusions.

* Footnote

Please consult your Guru or a qualified lineage master for Vajrayana practice! Should a devotee even want to start studying and contemplating the Vajrayana practice, then it is truly necessary to first have completed the preliminaries and to be certain and sure that Bodhicitta has arisen and developed in one’s mind.

Vajrayana features countless skillful and powerful methods which, if they are practiced in the proper way, can make the process of accumulation and purification incredibly swift and direct. It is absolutely necessary to have the pure motivation and to know that Vajrayana practice is not carried out to increase one’s own ego, power and self-interests.

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