The Glorious Vajra Claws - Dorje Dermo Dakini 金剛利爪母

*Vajra Claw—Dorje Dermo Dakini 金剛利爪母

Vajra Claw is a wrathful female activity Dakini. The Buddha originally revealed Vajra Claw to be a powerful guardian and protector. Accordingly, Vajra Claw is invoked to this day in order to protect the practitioners’ domestic space, their family, their friends and their allies and to avert any obstacles that might threaten them.

Vajra Claw she is a wrathful female activity Dakini. Within the Vajrakilaya tradition, she is the consort of Niladanda of The Ten Wrathful Ones. Her name translates as Vajra Claws into English and may be restored in Sanskrit as Vajra Nakhi. Her mantra has a long history and can be found in a variety of forms in the Guhyasamaja, the Vajravarahi, and the Vajrakilaya traditions.

In this context Dorje Dermo’s mantra is recited in connection to the ritual of the liberation of obstacles. Over time and especially within Tibet, Dorje Dermo became a deity independently invoked as to protect the practitioners’ domestic space, their family, their friends and their allies and to avert any obstacles that might threaten them.

History of Vajra Claw Dorje Dermo Dakini

According to The Incantation of Glorious Vajra Claws, the Buddha revealed the method for invoking Dorje Dermo in a place called the Vajra Palace to an assembly of monks and Tantric practitioners. There the Buddha advised them, that if the Dharani is recited, Dorje Dermo will become their guardian and protector, they will obtain many qualities and encounter only favourable circumstances.

At the end of the Dharani, Dorje Dermo recounts that countless aeons ago, she took birth as a female practitioner. At that time the Buddha called "Dridha-shura-sena-prabha-raja" (Sanskirt: Drdhasurasenapraharaṇaraja) visited the world. When Dorje Dermo met this Buddha, Buddha placed his hand upon her head and entrusted her with the Dharani. Buddha foretold her that if she continues recites the dharani, in future she will become known as the deity Dorje Dermo and bring great benefit and happiness to all sentient beings.

The Power of Vajra Claw Practice

The lamas mentioned that this practice is considered very powerful. They explained that Vajra Claw is a wrathful ḍakini whose activity is related to pacifying negative obstructing forces. In particular, Vajra Claw’s dharaṇi has the power to stop or block these forces, whether they appear in the form of external forces in nature.

Other people’s negative actions, our body sicknesses, fears or mental problems. It also has incredible benefits, all of which are described in detail in the text. According to the text, this dharaṇi protects by wearing it, reading it, or placing it where the problem is taking place.

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* Footnote 

For those who had received the empowerment of this Tantric practice, you are reminded not intentionally or unintentionally to disclose the mantra to the public or anyone who may not have the empowerment or permission to practice, and by disclosing the mantra intentionally or unintentionally is a form of breaking your Tantric Samaya vows to the lineage masters and Dharma protectors. 

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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