Drolma Yuthog – Puja of Arya Tara to Repel Adversity.
The powerful prayer of Mother Arya Tara to repel negativities that was passed down by Arya Nagarjuna has many merits and benefits. Since the beginning of last year, the COVID-19 has brought about misery throughout the world and ravaged lives and livelihoods of many people.
For an extraordinarily challenging time like this, conducting this Tara Puja will be extremely beneficial and urgently required. However to conduct such puja in our country is not possible as it involves the gathering of many participants. Thus I have asked a team of ten lamas from the Chorten Monastery of Sikkim, who currently reside in Bhutan to perform the puja.
Arya Tara is the embodiment of Buddhas of the Three Times namely past, present and future. Many have espoused the practices, merits, sutra and tantra of Mother Arya Tara. This includes vast teachings about the deity by Sakyamuni Buddha.
Tara manifested from the tears of Noble Avalokitesvara out of great compassion when he saw the unbearable sufferings of sentient beings in Samsara. The two tear drops became Green Tara and White Tara respectively. Usually Buddhahood is attained with a male body, there are hardly any emanations in female form.
However, Tara is a unique exception. This is due to her vow to liberate all sentient beings until the exhaustion of Samsara in a female form. This Sadhana is revealed by Nagarjuna after he achieved siddhis from his practice of his ishtadevata Arya Tara and was then passed down through generations of masters from India to Tibet.
In Tibet, the Sadhana was first introduced by Atisha who gave the transmission to one of his main disciples Dromtonpa and since then, the practice has flourished in Tibet until now. This Tara Sadhana from Nargajuna not only is able to repel all harms and obstacles inflicted by haughty demons and vile spirits, it is like a wish fulfilling jewel cintamaniraja on the hood of Naga King Tsugna Rinzin which can fulfill all mundane and supramundane wishes.
If someone relies on evil spirits or demons to cast curses and black magic on us, or tries to exert control on us through subjugation practices or when ominous circumstances arise within a community, all this can be repelled by this Tara puja.
It is also a sublime and profound personal practice to attain spiritual achievements (Skt. Siddhis). When we travel on long journeys for important tasks, this practice can eliminate all outer and inner obstacles. When geopolitical conflicts and epidemics arise, they can also be easily quelled.
Therefore, practising this Tara Sadhana with faith and devotion can help one achieve all worldly and supramundane aims. Other benefits include the repelling of curses by mantrins, ominous dreams, harms caused by astral bodies, harms from obstructing spirits, deaths of livestock, harms from demons, etc. In a nutshell, all undesirable and negative circumstances can be resolved with this powerful practice.
As Buddha taught us :“ From the causes created by this human body, one can achieve the fruition of enlightenment.” Although the power and blessing of compassion from all Buddhas benefitting sentient beings are non-dual.
In this current age of Kali yuga, the blessing of Tara is the most powerful along with another four ishtadevatas namely, Avalokiteshvara, Vajrapani, Manjushri and Padmasambhava. Arya Tara is the swiftest among the five.
For those who have received the empowerment of Arya Tara and oral transmission of the Praises to the Twenty One Taras, depending on one's generation of bodhicitta with the right altruistic intent, prepare outer and inner offerings in accordance to the tantra and maintain pure perception and purity of mind throughout the Sadhana will help one definitely accumulate immeasurable merits.
Meditating upon Tara and the merit field, one can swiftly perfect the accumulation of merit and wisdom, and dispel both the cognitive and afflictive obstacles.
By Gesar Chagtrul Thupten Thinley Rinpoche.
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Aspiration For Bodhichitta
For those in whom the precious Bodhichitta has not arisen
May it arise and not decrease
But increase further and further.
Dedication of Merit
By this merit may we obtain omniscience then.
Having defeated the enemies wrong-doings.
May we liberate migratory from the ocean of existence.
With its stormy waves of birth, old age, sickness and death.
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