Tara of All Colours: Wrathful, Peaceful and Everything In-Between

 

Tara can manifest in myriad—literally endless—forms, suited to the need of the practitioner. Iconographically, She can appear in any color. Famously, She is Green Tara, the saviors—and the chief manifestation of Tara. She is equally known as White Tara, the Goddess of Long Life and Healing.

She can be Ugra Tara, the Black Tara, who is the secret Mantra emanation—the very source of All, since sound (or frequencies) are often considered the source of manifestation in some Budhdist and Hindu beliefs.

Red Tara enjoys much love for her passionate role as the magnetizing Tara, who attracts and who helps beings with the power of positive attraction.

Yellow Tara helps those struggling with poverty, or just to help provide the resources to help other sentient beings. In higher Tantric practices Tara can manifest in the body mandala as simultaneous multi-coloured Taras at each of the body’s chakras.

Tara Does What?

Although all Buddhas and enlightened beings have the same realizations, the first question from people newly introduced to Tara, or any deity, is often “What does She do?”

What does Tara do? “Does” is a relative term. Relatively, She is wisdom in action. She is compassion in action. Tara is the penultimate combination of both wisdom and compassion. Ultimately, She is Wisdom realizing emptiness. Relatively, She is the ultimate action hero—means and method. Her names include “Swift Heroine,” which describes Her perfectly.

With Tara, Wisdom and Compassion are perfectly combined.

She is swift like the wind. Her green color is representative of the swift, active wind element, fearlessness, and imperturbable wisdom—very much a reflection of Her male consort, Amoghasiddhi. Also, without contradiction, often Tara is seen as the consort of other male Buddhas. She can also be thought of as the female aspect of Avalokitesvara (Chenrezig).

Tara – The Female Buddha

Tara is actually the perfection of wisdom, and she is the mother of all the Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, Shravakas, and Pratyeka Buddhas. This wisdom is actually beyond any forms or signs or descriptions. But out of great compassion, in order to help sentient beings, she appears in a physical form that is the Tara. The word Tara means “Saviour” or “One Who Saves”.

Why Tara is called as the female Buddha?

There are male and female Buddhas just as there are male and female people. There are many female Buddhas, not just Tara and Vajrayogini; there are so many female deities! For some people, it is much easier to practice female deities. 

It depends on one’s own karmic connections. For some, female deities are more suited, and for others, male deities are more suited. Although is it said, in terms of their wisdom, compassion, and power, that all deities are the same, but due to their motherly figure, it is easier to invoke the blessing of female deities.

Why is Tara in particularly regarded for her compassion?

Basically, all the deities are the nature of compassion and emptiness, but Tara is special in two ways: firstly, she is in the motherly figure, and secondly, she is an emanation of Avalokiteshvara, the manifestation of all the Buddhas’ compassion. Therefore, there is a particular connection between compassion and Tara.

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No.19 Emanation of Taras - Dugkarmo (19/21)

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Praises to the Twenty-One Tara is a traditional prayer in Tibetan Buddhism to the female Bodhisattva Tara. (Tibetan called Drolma) also known as Arya Tara or Jetsun Dolma. The prayer is found in all four traditions of Tibetan Buddhism.  

Each of the twenty-one emanations of Tara has her own name, and a specific mantra with which she is associated, offering protection from various types of fears, harm, and calamities.

Tara has Twenty-One ultimate emanations according to the mantra of the Buddha Samantabhadra called “Twenty-One Praises of Tara”. Twenty-One Tara with 21 specific colors serves with a specific function. 

There are different styles and designs of tangka paintings that represent the Twenty-One manifestations of Tara based on distinct lineages and practices, in which forms, colors, ritual objects and even names or functions can vary. 

Homage to The No.19 Taras - Dugkarmo

OM TARE TUTTARE TURE HUNG HUNG PHAT PHAT RAKSHA RAKSHA MAM SVAHA

Invincible Queen of the White Umbrella Who Dispels Conflicts and Bad Dreams

Tara Dugkarmo is peaceful and white in color. Meditating upon her and reciting her mantra brings joy and bliss, causing the practitioner’s body, speech, and mind to blaze with power and splendor. Upon her utpala flower is a white umbrella. Fire, weapons, and Vajra spark emanated from her body, completely uprooting hostility toward the Dharma, worldly disputes, curses, misuse of mantric power, and negative signs in dreams.

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Tara Dugkarmo is a famous emanation of Tara, who protects from nightmares, bad omens in dreams, and black magic. She especially protects the Dharma and the lamas from spir­itual harm, as well as protecting us from arguments and violence. Dugkar means "white umbrella," so she is often called Queen White Umbrella.

Tara Dugkarmo – Queen of the White Umbrella. The 19th of Atisha’s 21 Taras displays a semi-wrathful smile and is white in colour. This manifestation of Tara offers protection from nightmares and bad omens, perpetuating serenity and peace in their place. She also plays the important role of safeguarding the Dharma and those that teach it from discord and conflict. A white umbrella appears in Tara’s utpala flower.

Om Jetsunma pal ma dolma la chaktsal lo

Om Homage to the noble lady Tara

Chaktsal lha yi tsok nam gyal po

Homage to you on whom the kings of gods

Lha dang mi am chi yi ten ma

The gods themselves, and all spirits rely

Kun ne go cha ga wa ji kyi

Your armor radiates joy to all

Tso dang mi lam ngen pa sel ma

You soothe conflicts and nightmares as well

Prayer of the Benefits

Whoever is endowed with devotion for the goddess and recites this with supreme faith, remembering it at dawn upon waking and in the evenings, will be granted all fearlessness, will perfectly pacify all negativities, and will eliminate all unfortunate migrations.

The multitudes of conquerors will quickly grant initiation: Thus, endowed with this greatness, one will eventually reach the state of a Buddha. If affected by the most terrible poison, whether ingested, drunk, or from a living being, just by remembering will one be thoroughly cleansed.

If this prayer is recited two, three, or seven times, It will pacify all the sufferings of torments caused by spirits, fevers, and poisons, and by other beings as well. If you wish for a child, you will get a child; if you wish for wealth, you will receive wealth. All your wishes will be fulfilled and all obstacles pacified.  

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Why 21 Tara in specific and not random numbers ?

 

OM TARE TUTARE TURE SOHA

OM TARE TUTARE TURE SOHA

OM TARE TUTARE TURE SOHA

OM to the transcendent subduer, Arya Tara, I prostrate,

Homage to the glorious one, who frees with TARE,

With TUTARE, you calm all fears,

You bestow all success with TURE,

To the sound SOHA, I pay great homage. 

  

Green Tara is known as the “swift One” or the “swift Liberator” due to her immediate response to those who request her help. Green Tara reaches out her hand in the gesture of granting protection, freeing one from fear, obstacles, and difficulties. With her right foot stepping forward, she is alert, determined and ready to actively help all who call upon her.

There are so many inner obstacles to the development of our minds and these inner obstacles create many outer obstacles. Therefore, for the success of our Dharma practices, of our actualizing the graduated path to enlightenment, we must rely upon a special Yidam or Buddha such as the Compassionate Goddess of Mother Tara.

Many great Indian Yogis, an example is the great Pandit Lama Atisha relied upon mother Tara. Lama Atisha was able to bring extensive benefits to the Buddha’s teachings and sentient beings. All his success came from Tara. So it is important to have a full trust, confidence and devotion when reciting the mantra, and the praises to the twenty-one Taras prayer at dawn or dusk, at any time of the day or night.

Reciting the Tara mantra or praises to the twenty-one Tara’s practice. Tara can be able to help us overcome many problems in our life. She will liberate us from the untimely death, help us recover from diseases, bring success in business, help us to get jobs.

One might ask "Why 21 Tara in specific? And not 22 or 23 or 40 or any random numbers?

At the basic level, Buddha had taught us 21 techniques with which we are able to attain Enlightenment. According to the Mahayana Sutra system, as we practice, we traverse the ten different levels (Bhumis), eventually reaching the enlightened state. The basis for our enlightenment is right where we find ourselves now, with the precious endowment of our own human body and our own Buddha-nature.

Vajrayana or Tantra is similar to the sutra system, but its methods are more specifically targeted. According to Tantric teaching, within this human body we have twenty one knots. These are in pairs and they obstruct or block our channels. Through practice, as we release each of these pairs of knots, we obtain a specific experience or realization.

After we have released all of the 21 knots, we are known as enlightened beings, having attained Buddhahood.

Buddhahood is not some force that is outside us, waiting for the knots to be untied in order to come in. From basic Buddhism all the way to Dzogchen, it is made perfectly clear that Buddhahood is an innate state, already within us.

Our inherently awakened state is an already enlightened being, a Buddha, Tathagatagarbha. When we release those 21 knots, we attain the ultimate awakening known as the Dharmakaya state. 

The Dharmakaya, in turn, has 21 spontaneously inherent qualities. They transcend duality, the compound state, permanence and impermanence, and effort or striving. Unceasingly, they arise as necessary for the benefit of all sentient beings. 

These twenty one active Dharma kaya qualities appear as the twenty one emanation of Tara. Thus Tara combines all the active energies of the three kayas by which we release our own knots and those of other beings, the energy by which we achieve enlightenment and help other beings to achieve it. 

The Praise to Tara with Twenty-One Verses of Homage, and the Excellent Benefits of Reciting the Praise is usually abbreviated to Praises to the Twenty-One Taras. It is a twenty-seven-versed tantra that is dedicated to the female Bodhisattva Tara, who has twenty-one emanations; Ranging from peaceful to wrathful forms. These poetic verses describe her physical appearance, iconography, attributes, and mantra; and pay homage to the great Tara.

This article aims to provide general introductions to each of the twenty-one Taras, so that the new practitioner can gain a rudimental understanding of these emanations.

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No.16 Emanation of Taras - Rig Ngag Tobzhom (16/21)

  

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Praises to the Twenty-One Tara is a traditional prayer in Tibetan Buddhism to the female Bodhisattva Tara. (Tibetan called Drolma) also known as Arya Tara or Jetsun Dolma. The prayer is found in all four traditions of Tibetan Buddhism.  

Each of the twenty-one emanations of Tara has her own name, and a specific mantra with which she is associated, offering protection from various types of fears, harm, and calamities.

Tara has Twenty-One ultimate emanations according to the mantra of the Buddha Samantabhadra called “Twenty-One Praises of Tara”. Twenty-One Tara with 21 specific colors serves with a specific function. 

There are different styles and designs of tangka paintings that represent the Twenty-One manifestations of Tara based on distinct lineages and practices, in which forms, colors, ritual objects and even names or functions can vary. 

Homage to The No.16 Taras - Rig Ngag Tobzhom

OM TARE TUTTARE TURE TRAM DU TRINA TRAM DU PHAT SVAHA

Destroyer of the Power of Evil Spells Cast by Enemies and Sorcerers

Rig Ngag Tobzhom is peaceful and red in color. The light of her wisdom, compassion, and power completely destroys enemies, evil spells, and Mara, lord of negative forces. She grants the power of true speech to those who pray to her. Upon her utpala flower is a crossed Vajra that completely destroys the power of curses, evil, and all negativity.

Destroyer of the power of evil spells cast by enemies and sorcerers. The no.16 emanation of Tara Rig Ngag Tobzhom has special powers to stop the negative intentions of others, such as spells and curses. 

Her name is Tara Rigngag Tobzhom. Rigngag may have several meanings, but in this case, it refers to misusing the mantra or other aspects of practice for an evil purpose, to harm. Thus the meaning of her name is “Tara, who destroys the power of bad intentions”.

Om Jetsunma pal ma drolma la chaktsal lo

Om Homage to the noble lady Tara

Chak tsal kun ne kor rab ga we

Homage to you with joyous retinue

Dra yi lu ni rab tu gem ma

You subdue fully all enemies’ forms

Yi ge chu pe ngak ni ko pe

The ten-letter mantra adorns your heart

Rig pa hung le drol ma nyi ma

And your knowledge – HUM gives liberation

Prayer of the Benefits

Whoever is endowed with devotion for the goddess and recites this with supreme faith, remembering it at dawn upon waking and in the evenings, will be granted all fearlessness, will perfectly pacify all negativities, and will eliminate all unfortunate migrations.

The multitudes of conquerors will quickly grant initiation: Thus, endowed with this greatness, one will eventually reach the state of a Buddha. If affected by the most terrible poison, whether ingested, drunk, or from a living being, just by remembering will one be thoroughly cleansed.

If this prayer is recited two, three, or seven times, It will pacify all the sufferings of torments caused by spirits, fevers, and poisons, and by other beings as well. If you wish for a child, you will get a child; if you wish for wealth, you will receive wealth. All your wishes will be fulfilled and all obstacles pacified.  

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May it arise and not decrease

But increase further and further.

Dedication of Merit

By this merit may we obtain omniscience then.

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May we liberate migratory from the ocean of existence.

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No.14 Emanation of Taras - The Black Tara, Tronyer Chenma (14/21)

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Praises to the Twenty-One Tara is a traditional prayer in Tibetan Buddhism to the female Bodhisattva Tara. (Tibetan called Drolma) also known as Arya Tara or Jetsun Dolma. The prayer is found in all four traditions of Tibetan Buddhism.  

Each of the twenty-one emanations of Tara has her own name, and a specific mantra with which she is associated, offering protection from various types of fears, harm, and calamities.

Tara has Twenty-One ultimate emanations according to the mantra of the Buddha Samantabhadra called “Twenty-One Praises of Tara”. Twenty-One Tara with 21 specific colors serves with a specific function. 

There are different styles and designs of tangka paintings that represent the Twenty-One manifestations of Tara based on distinct lineages and practices, in which forms, colors, ritual objects and even names or functions can vary.

Homage To The No.14 Black Taras - Tronyer Chenma

OM TARE TUTTARE TURE HUNG HUNG HAM SHAM TRIG NAN PHAT SVAHA

Frowning Lady, Destroying Evil of the Nine Kinds of Harm-Doers, Eight Classes of Spirits, and Obstructing Forces

Tronyer Chenma or known as the Black Tara and she is the Tara who protects practitioners from evil spirits, black magic, negative karma and heavy obstacles.

Tronyer Chenma is wrathful, frowning, and black like dense rain clouds. With the roaring sound of HUNG she radiates light and flaming vajras that split the heads of negative forces and demons causing them to fall unconscious in the state of dharmata (suchness). Upon her utpala flower is a pestle. Her hands and feet strike the earth, stamping out ignorance and causing the ground to tremble.

Tronyer Chenma is known as Thronyer Chen. She is dark rain-clouds color. The trainer is “frowning, wrathful”, so she is the very wrathful, frowning one. She is a special emanation of Tara, whose activity is removing subtle obstacles due to misleading influences, which are usually our most stubborn obstacles. She deals with our last “wrinkles” or, we might say, the last two percent of our delusions, deep within the elemental nature of human beings.

Om Jetsunma pal ma drolma la chaktsal lo

Om Homage to the noble lady

Chhag tshal sa zhii ngo la chhag gi

Homage to you, Tara, with hand on the ground by your side

Thil gyi nun ching zhab kyi dung ma

Pressing your heel and stamping your foot on the earth

Thro nyer chan dza yi ge HUM gi

With a wrathful glance from your eyes you subdue

Rim pa dun po nam ni gem ma

All seven levels through the syllable HUM

Prayer of the Benefits

Whoever is endowed with devotion for the goddess and recites this with supreme faith, remembering it at dawn upon waking and in the evenings, will be granted all fearlessness, will perfectly pacify all negativities, and will eliminate all unfortunate migrations.

The multitudes of conquerors will quickly grant initiation: Thus, endowed with this greatness, one will eventually reach the state of a Buddha. If affected by the most terrible poison, whether ingested, drunk, or from a living being, just by remembering will one be thoroughly cleansed.

If this prayer is recited two, three, or seven times, It will pacify all the sufferings of torments caused by spirits, fevers, and poisons, and by other beings as well. If you wish for a child, you will get a child; if you wish for wealth, you will receive wealth. All your wishes will be fulfilled and all obstacles pacified.  

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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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No.18 Emanation of Taras - Maja Chenmo (18/21)

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Praises to the Twenty-One Tara is a traditional prayer in Tibetan Buddhism to the female Bodhisattva Tara. (Tibetan called Drolma) also known as Arya Tara or Jetsun Dolma. The prayer is found in all four traditions of Tibetan Buddhism.  

Each of the twenty-one emanations of Tara has her own name, and a specific mantra with which she is associated, offering protection from various types of fears, harm, and calamities.

Tara has Twenty-One ultimate emanations according to the mantra of the Buddha Samantabhadra called “Twenty-One Praises of Tara”. Twenty-One Tara with 21 specific colors serves with a specific function. 

There are different styles and designs of tangka paintings that represent the Twenty-One manifestations of Tara based on distinct lineages and practices, in which forms, colors, ritual objects and even names or functions can vary. 

Homage to The No.18 Taras - Maja Chenmo

OM TARE TUTTARE TURE SARVA VISHA TARA PHAT SVAHA

Great Peacock, Protecting from and Pacifying All Kinds of Poison

Maja Chenmo is peaceful and white in color. She protects from poison. Upon her utpala flower is a full moon marked with a rabbit. From this, the rays of nectar light radiate, spreading in all directions and completely removing all poisons from the environment and sentient beings. The moon symbolizes self-arisen wisdom that is free from increasing and decreasing, transition or change.

This emanation of no. 18 Tara's Tibetan name is Tara Maja Chenmo. Now Mayura is the Sanskrit word for "peacock," which is maja Irma ball in Tibetan, so she is the "great one of the peacock." Pea­cocks are especially associated with protection from poisons because it is said that the peacock eats poison and transforms it into the beauty of its plumage.

Thus Tara Maja Chenmo's special activity is counteracting or dispelling inner and outer poisons. These might be food, water, environmental pollution, or any type of unhealthy situation. Maja Chenmo is also renowned for her compassion in pro­tecting infants and young children.

There's a beautiful traditional story about Tara's role in the great Nagarjuna's 96 childhood. He was born into a rich, high-caste Brah­min family. As was traditional, after his birth the sign-reader came to read the baby's palm. 

He told Nagarjuna's parents that their son would surely die after one week unless they did certain practices on Tara Maj a Chenmo. Although they were Brahmins and didn't want to do this Buddhist practice, they agreed and the threat to Nagar­juna's life was averted for that time.

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When he was seven, his parents brought Nagarjuna to Nalanda University. At that time Nalanda was still quite a small university, with only a few temples and buildings. There he received initiation and transmission for the practice of Tara Maja Chenmo, realized it, and it is taught that he extended his life to over six hundred years.

Om Jetsunma pal ma drolma la chaktsal lo

Om Homage to the noble lady Tara

Chak tsal lha yi tso yi nam pe

Homage to you who holds in your hand

Ri dak tak chen chak na nam ma

A moon like a celestial lake

Ta ra nyi jo pe kyi yi ge

Saying TARA twice and the letter PHET

Duk nam ma lu par ni sel ma

You dispel all poisons without exception.

Prayer of the Benefits

Whoever is endowed with devotion for the goddess and recites this with supreme faith, remembering it at dawn upon waking and in the evenings, will be granted all fearlessness, will perfectly pacify all negativities, and will eliminate all unfortunate migrations.

The multitudes of conquerors will quickly grant initiation: Thus, endowed with this greatness, one will eventually reach the state of a Buddha. If affected by the most terrible poison, whether ingested, drunk, or from a living being, just by remembering will one be thoroughly cleansed.

If this prayer is recited two, three, or seven times, It will pacify all the sufferings of torments caused by spirits, fevers, and poisons, and by other beings as well. If you wish for a child, you will get a child; if you wish for wealth, you will receive wealth. All your wishes will be fulfilled and all obstacles pacified.  

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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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No.21 Emanation of Taras - Lhamo Ozer Chenma / Marichi (21/21)

 

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Praises to the Twenty-One Tara is a traditional prayer in Tibetan Buddhism to the female Bodhisattva Tara. (Tibetan called Drolma) also known as Arya Tara or Jetsun Dolma. The prayer is found in all four traditions of Tibetan Buddhism.  

Each of the twenty-one emanations of Tara has her own name, and a specific mantra with which she is associated, offering protection from various types of fears, harm, and calamities.

Tara has Twenty-One ultimate emanations according to the mantra of the Buddha Samantabhadra called “Twenty-One Praises of Tara”. Twenty-One Tara with 21 specific colors serves with a specific function. 

There are different styles and designs of tangka paintings that represent the Twenty-One manifestations of Tara based on distinct lineages and practices, in which forms, colors, ritual objects and even names or functions can vary. 

Homage to The No. 21 Taras - Lhamo Ozer Chenma / Marichi   

OM TARE TUTTARE TURE MARITSE YE TSE BHRUM NRI DZA SVAHA

Goddess Endowed With Light Who Replenishes the Longevity and Life Force of the Sick

Lhamo Ozer Chenma – Divine Mother of Brilliant Light Rays. The 21st of Atisha’s 21 Taras is peaceful and white in color. This emanation of Tara offers protection from the depletion of energy and vitality by replenishing life force and increasing longevity. She also safeguards the well-being of animals. Golden fish rest upon the utpala flower by her left ear.

Lhamo Ozer Chenma is peaceful and white in color. She radiates light, instantly summoning all evil spirits who steal the vitality and longevity of the sick. Upon her utpala flower is a golden fish. Light radiates from the three syllables OM AH HUNG of her body, speech, and mind, completely pacifying all obstacles: outer forces, inner imbalance of the elements, and secret obstacles of dualistic grasping at afflictive emotions. 

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 a protector of animals.

Om Jetsunma pal ma drolma la chaktsal lo

Om Homage to the noble lady Tara

Chaktsal den yi sum nam ko pe

Homage to you, adorned with three natures

Shi we tu dang yang dak den ma

Perfectly endowed with peaceful strength

Don dang ro lang no jin tsok nam

You destroy demons, zombies, and yakshas

Jom pa tu re rab chok nyi ma

O TURE, most exalted and sublime

Tsa we ngak kyi to pa di dang

I praise with this root mantra

Chak tsal wa ni nyi shu tsa chik

and pay homage twenty one times

Prayer of the Benefits

Whoever is endowed with devotion for the goddess and recites this with supreme faith, remembering it at dawn upon waking and in the evenings, will be granted all fearlessness, will perfectly pacify all negativities, and will eliminate all unfortunate migrations.

The multitudes of conquerors will quickly grant initiation: Thus, endowed with this greatness, one will eventually reach the state of a Buddha. If affected by the most terrible poison, whether ingested, drunk, or from a living being, just by remembering will one be thoroughly cleansed.

If this prayer is recited two, three, or seven times, It will pacify all the sufferings of torments caused by spirits, fevers, and poisons, and by other beings as well. If you wish for a child, you will get a child; if you wish for wealth, you will receive wealth. All your wishes will be fulfilled and all obstacles pacified.  

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