Library - Tengyur - Comments on tantras

devī-vasudhārī-stotra

Hymn to Goddess Vasudhara

    I prostrate before the goddess Vasudhara!
    How marvelous! Above the stand that possesses the treasury of a precious vessel, [you manifest] in the power of original purity in a body that is like gold, on the disk of the Sun that is free from imperfections! Uncreated nature that is like the form of a child! Your ears, neck, arms and legs are adorned with garlands of jewels! I bow before the body of the Noble One, which is beautiful like the full moon!
    Possessing love, you possess the way of realizing bounty! Possessing lotus feet, thou, O Mother, by the unceasing cries of the lion, remove all suffering of beings! I bow down before speech that is similar to thine, O glorious goddess!
    Having brought the two accumulations to completion and proceeding successively through the ten levels, you fulfill the wishes and aspirations of living beings by the power of compassion! I bow down before the mind of the goddess that has grasped the absolute meaning, the nature of the Great Bliss, free from the extremes of embellishment!
    With your right hand with [the wisdom of] giving offerings of pīja phala [pīja phala] you protect from the eight fears and subdue beings! You eliminate poverty and destroy false guides! With your left [hand] at the heart you hold precious ears! You fulfill the aspirations of the necessary and the desirable like a tree of fulfillment of desires! I bow down and prostrate before thee, which is like a jewel of wish fulfillment!
    I constantly make offerings to thee and fully render hymns with a mind [filled with] devotion. When I do so, you instantly remove the suffering of poverty, even though the tears on your face are hidden by your clothes. When you eliminate [this suffering], you will follow to all the prayer-wishes [offered] because of compassion in the past!
    Exhausting without manifestation of action the power of giving, you manifest the unsurpassed fate of perfection [of giving]. Even then, you do not bestow anything from a drop of compassion, only discarding the perverted life-activity that is about sustenance, which stems from poverty in this life!
    From this time forward and in all lives, I will make offerings to the noble Vasudharini. I will practice the Teachings of the secret mantra and the Great Chariot! I will listen to the teachings of the teacher-guru who holds the vajra! May I realize the essence of the great Mahamudra, the indivisibility!
    May [be manifested] the wealth of permanent possession of the Teaching when [I acquire] a horse, an elephant, jewels, clothes, a pond for ablution, stores of jewels, a cow of wish fulfillment and that which does not require effort to appear!
    Thus concludes the hymn to Goddess Vasudharini composed by Pandita Jamari.
    Translated by Lama Karma Paljor (O.E. Filippov).