Commentary On The Praises of 21 Taras - Chapter 3/3

The praises are extremely common and renowned amongst the four Mahayana traditions of Tibetan Buddhism. Not only the great meditators, yogis and pundits, but the common people who rely Tara experience quick success and achieve the happiness they wish for.

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A Commentary on the Praise to Tara

Homage to the noble lady Tara!

This Praise with the twenty-one verses of homage

Is it the root mantra of all peaceful and wrathful Taras.

The wise who recite these words in earnest, with body, speech and mind filled with devotion for this goddess.

We should recall her wrathful form at dusk, and also having risen at dawn her peaceful form. With the mere recollection of her divine form, they will be granted fearlessness; and likewise, just by recollecting her, they will utterly eliminate all misdeeds, and surmount all evil destinies, their results. 

Seventy million victorious Buddhas will swiftly and immediately confer empowerment upon them, and they will attain the common result of greatness in this world, and not only that, but they will also reach the ultimate state of Buddhahood. 

Even the most powerful and toxic poisons, such as those used by dangerous thieves, which derive from plants, or living beings, such as those from dangerous snakes, whether eaten or taken as a draught, will be purged entirely by recalling this praise, this mantra, and the deity herself.

Reciting this two or three or seven times, however much you can, while visualizing the goddess before you, will eliminate multitudes of both the causes and results of suffering brought about by spirits, pestilence, and poisons. Through this praise you have the power to aid others and therefore this applies even to other beings as well.

Those who wish for progeny will bear them; those who wish for riches will acquire them; thus each and every wish—all the supreme or common accomplishments—will hereby be fulfilled, and obstacles will be entirely vanquished, for everything that had to be abandoned has been overcome by its appropriate antidote. Thus, there will be no more obstacles left to hinder the one who recites this praise.

This completes the Praise to Bhagavati Tara as spoken by the completely perfect Buddha.

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