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mahābala-sādhana

Mahabala practice

    Perform the meditation on emptiness through the sequence of rituals explained earlier. Then, from the syllable hūṁ, that [situated] upon a white lotus and a sun disc, Mahābala arises, possessing one face and four arms. His body is entirely red. His yellowish-brown hair blazes upwards, and a serpent is coiled around his crown. With his two right hands, he holds a white staff and a white drum; with his two left hands, he forms the salutation gesture and the scorpion mudra holding a noose. His lower body is clad in a tiger-skin skirt and adorned with serpents. His right leg is bent, and his fangs are clenched. He wears a garland of sun discs, and Amitābha rests as an ornament upon his head. While meditating in this way, recite the mantra:
    oṁ mahābala svāhā
    This is the practice of Mahabala.
    Translated by the monk Tsultrim Gyaltsen based on the [instructions] of Abhaya.
    Translated by Lama Dondrub Dorje Tulku.