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dhārā-jambhala-upadeśa

Oral instructions on offering water to the glorious Jambhala

    I prostrate myself before the glorious Jambhala!
    When you visualize the yellow syllable jaṁ on the tip of your ring finger, meditate on Jambhala in the vessel using mudra, etc. Having done so, by means of the flow of water falling in the space between your hand and the root of your ring finger, [the flow] falls like this onto his head. [Doing so,] perform meditation and recitation of the syllables jaṁ one hundred and eight times.
    Such are the oral instructions on offering water to Jambhala. When the seed of the fifth [letter] of the first [row] of the syllable bruṁ becomes perfect on the right hand, visualize the five Tathāgatas. Upon visualizing, the seed [or nectar] also appears there together with the Moon. Generate the universally known Jambhala in front of you from the syllable jaṁ. With the seed [or nectar] that was explained earlier, extend your index finger and [recite the mantra] one hundred and eight times together with the water on his head. With your hand, which is half a fist, scoop up water and pour it out. By visualizing this, you will make everything perfect.
    Such are the oral instructions on Jambhala. Those known as Victorious Vairochana, Ratnasambhava, equal to Amitabha, Amoghasiddhi, and known as Akshobhya—they possess bodies of white, yellow, red, green, and blue colors. [They constitute] the mudras of supreme enlightenment, supreme endowment, meditative absorption, fearlessness, and touching the earth. The seed syllable of Tathagata is “bhrūṁ āṁ jrīṁ khaṁ hūṁ.”
    Visualize the five Tathagatas arising from the five syllables located on the moon, the right hand, and meditate on the aspect in the form of a seed [or juice]. Visualizing Jambhala arising from the syllable jaṁ, offer a handful of water with devotion. Make offerings with one hundred and eight repetitions of his mantra.
    Thus concludes the oral instructions on offering water to Jambhala.
     Translated by Lama Karma Paljor (Filippov O.E.).