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mārīcī-devī-sādhana

The practice of the goddess Marichi

    I prostrate myself before the goddess Marichi!
    First, everyone there should visualize the disk of the Sun. On it [represent] the seed in the form of the fifth [syllable] of the fifth [row]. On it, everything is completed with the second from the first [row]. Imagine that it is adorned with half of the Moon and bindu.

    When you do so, out of it appears the goddess Marichi with a body of red color and with six countenances. The first countenance is red, the second black, the third green, the fourth yellow, and the fifth white. On top on the top of the head is the black face of a pig. It is decorated with ashwaka and stupa. Possesses a large belly garlanded with skulls. The red hair on the head rises upwards. Holds a harness of snake and a skirt of tiger skin. Carries out the lowering of the hindrance. Is with outstretched left [leg] on a cart made of blue of various colors. In his right hands he holds a sword, vajr, mace, arrow, vajr with one tip, axe. In the left [makes the mudra of] a scorpion with a harness, holds a kapala, an ashvaka harness, the head of Brahma, a bow, a trident. Imagine her with three eyes. Imagine the index fingers of both hands raised in the middle of the round tree in front.
    When you do this, conceive the pride “I am the blessed Mother Marichi”.
    Then compose a mudra. When you join the vajra palms together, extend both middle fingers parallel to each other. When you do this, compose like a sprout. Both thumbs cross each other. When you do so, make a hook of the two index fingers at the top.
    Then [follows] the mantra of recitation:
    oṁ mārīcyai māṁ hūṁ hūṁ phaṭ phaṭ svāhā
    This is how the practice of the goddess Marīcī is completed.
    Thus concludes the eleven practices composed by Nirmāladeva, the great acharya who attained the siddhis of Mahamudra.
    Translated by Lama Karma Paljor (O.E. Filippov).