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megha-aloka-gaṇapati-sādhana-nāma

Ganapati's practice of “The Lamp from the Clouds”.

    I prostrate before Ganapati!
    Wrathful king, supreme leader, that eliminates poverty! I bow [before thee that possesses] the color blue!
    Through the remembrance of the goodness of my own comprehension, the good oral explanations, and the tantras, I will correctly explain the practice of the Light of the Treasury.
    A practitioner with characteristics, being in a good place, pleasant to the mind, rising in the morning should perform ablution, scatter flowers, and make a mandala with sandal water. One should place bouquets of flowers with a pleasant odor.
    Then [visualize] yourself as the syllable maṁ. Rays of light are emitted from it and an invitation is made. When you do so, make offerings, offer what is called bdelium and dissolve in the nature of light. Introduce favorably within yourself. By virtue of this also thyself [appear as possessing] one countenance, four arms. The body is blue in color, possessing three eyes. On the top of your head is a tiara of braids. Adorned with a serpent that possesses a month. In his right hands he holds an axe and a tusk, in his left - a trident and a harness. The lower part of [the body] is girded with the skin of a tiger. He possesses the necklace of the white king of the Nagas. Meditate on him possessing a cluster of rays of light.
    Bring the primordial wisdom into the precious foundation. Realize the offerings and terrify the hungry spirits. By means of this, there from the essence first [arise] the seed-slog of the body. The fifth of the four is adorned with the syllables e. The first three are underneath it. Under them [appears] the seed of three of the six first syllables of vowels. There the head is adorned with the syllable o. The first of the first is under it. The seed of the wind [is] under it. On the seat of the syllable of appeasement is two syllables of vowels. That which is gathered from above is proclaimed as the subsequent melody of the wrathful [deity]. In a blissful way comprehend the Sanskrit vowels and consonants.
    This realization that is gathered in like manner, in the daytime [perform] each time [recitation numbering] ten thousand, perform the burning of gifts one hundred and eight times with small bdellium lamps.
    Being diligent in this way, you will find one hundred thousand times one hundred thousand dongtsa [dong tsa] every month. When you rise in the morning on the day of Pushya, make offerings, offer torma, offerings with good fragrances, etc. On the base, which is the pure base or the base from the cleaving of the best bath [or ablution place], the practitioner should draw the form of any supreme symbol.
    When you have completed this on the day of Pushya, say, “O King that holds the sea! By thee shall it be realized!” Say so and also perform the dance. Due to the blissful fragrances, the blissful colors inside the box - definitely you will abide connected with the blessed one. Make offerings to him constantly. Make offerings in vast accumulations. Act in this manner daily.
    You will acquire all great treasuries and also gather all accumulations of bhuta. Everywhere you will possess purity and purification. Such are these heart commitments. It is said, “For all that diligently realize all aspirations by means of the treasuries, all the time thou shalt behold!” So graciously realize comprehension.
    May this treasury-light of all practices that clarify the dharani and the vision of Ganapati liberate all beings from poverty and complete the paramita of generosity!
    Thus concludes the practice of Ganapati's Light from the Clouds, compiled by Acharya and Brahmin Ratnavajra. It was translated by the Indian pandita Dipamkara Sri Jianna and the translator Nagzo Tsultrim Gyalwa.
    Translated by Lama Karma Paljor (O.E. Filippov).