Hayagriva Most Secret Long Sadhana

The Melodious Song Pleasing
the Great Powerful One

The Long Sadhana of Most Secret Hayagriva
An essential compendium of the ritual activities of the

nine-deity, wrathful blood drinker, the Extremely Secret
Magnificent Great Powerful Lotus, the Horse-Necked One
༅༅།། དཔལ་པb་དབང་ཆེན་་མགྲིན་ཡང་གསང་ོས་པ་ག་
འཐུང་་དགུའི་ལས་ང་ིང་པོར་ིལ་པ་དབང་ཆེན་དེས་པའི་གླུ་
དངས་ཞེས་་བ་བཞུགས་སོ། །
Composed by Kalka Damtsig Dorje

Translation by Lama Zopa Rinpoche and Jamyang
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Contents
The Melodious Song Pleasing the Great Powerful One;
the Long Sadhana of Most Secret Hayagriva 5
Most Secret Hayagriva Tsog Offering 47

Most Secret Hayagriva Long Sadhana 5
The Melodious Song Pleasing

the Great Powerful One
The Long Sadhana of Most Secret Hayagriva
NAMO GURU HAYAGRIVAYA
Having respectfully paid homage to the magnificent great power-

ful lotus, the pervading guru Vajradharma, I will explain clearly
and concisely the meaning of the actions of the deity.
Herein is presented a condensed daily recitation of the activi-

ties of the special supreme deity, the destroyer qualified as gone
beyond, the Lotus Great Controller Hayagriva, the nine-deity ex-
tremely secret wrathful blood drinker.
This sadhana is divided into three sections: the preliminary prac-

tices, the actual practice, and the concluding practices.
6 Most Secret Hayagriva Long Sadhana
The Preliminary Practices
Refuge
Until we attain the state of the pervading lord Samantabhadra,
I and all sentient beings without exception who equal the sky
Take refuge in the Three Jewels – the essence of Rare Sublimity –
And in the entire assembly of mandala deities. (3x)
Generating Bodhichitta
In order to place all the limitless transmigrating beings, my
kind mothers,
In the state of peerless buddhahood,
I am going to practice the activities of this profound method
Of the Great Controller, the Extremely Secret Wrathful One. (3x)
Meditation on the Four Immeasurable Thoughts

May all sentient beings have happiness.
May all sentient beings be free from suffering.
May all sentient beings forever abide in happiness.
May all transmigratory beings attain enlightenment. (3x or more)
Requesting Prayer to the Lineage Lamas and

Collecting Merits
The eight-limb practice and so forth
OM VAJRA SAMAYA HUM JAH
To Limitless Illumination [Amitabha Buddha], to the Great

Powerful Deity,
To Padmasambhava, Vairochana, and the assembly of treasure
discoverers;
To Drubthob Darchyar and so forth, and to all the root and
lineage gurus, I make requests.
I prostrate to the vajra master and the glorified buddhas abiding
in the three times.
To the Three Jewels, who are the field of our dependence,
I take refuge with a non-dualistic mind.
Please accept these pure offerings,

Those actually performed and those emanated from my mind.
I confess each and every vice, the obstacles severing the stream
of attainments.
I rejoice in the Dharma, pure [emptiness], the three circles of the
ten directions, [buddhas, bodhisattvas, and sentient beings]
And in all conduct performed without attachment.
I generate the mind of complete enlightenment:

The ultimate sphere of dharmakaya purified of ignorance and
hallucinations
And devoid of the stains of the four extremes: eternalism,
nihilism, and so forth.
I and all limitless sentient beings

Offer our bodies to those abiding in the three times (gurus, bud-
dhas, and so on).
Having gathered all the virtues of countless lifetimes,

I dedicate them to the great enlightenment.
Eminent supreme field of guru deities,

Please open the gate to highly pleasing your holy mind.
Please bestow the blessings of your body, speech, and mind,
As well as the empowerment and attainments.
Driving Away the Obstacles and Establishing the

Border
OM VAJRA KRODHA HAYAGRIVA HULU HULU HUM PHAT
From my heart, clarified as the holy body of the Supreme Horse-

headed Hero,
Emanated Wrathful Ones, weapons, and a great conflagration
Which dispelled all hindering spirits and interferers from the
limits of all directions
And gathered back, became the tent of vajra protection.
OM RAM KRODHA RAKSHA VAJRA JVALA RAM TISHANA

VISHVA JVALA RAM PHAT PHAT RAM RAM (many times)
Purifying negative karma and obscurations

OM VAJRA SAMAJAH HUM
We are ignorant and disturbed sentient beings,

And have carelessly transgressed our pledges [not just recitation
and prayers of sadhana commitments, but also all the vows
taken during the initiation]
We request you, assembly of mandala deities of the Great
Powerful Lotus,
Out of your overwhelming compassion, have patience
With whatever actions we have done against you.

By accepting us patiently, please bestow all miraculous
attainments.
OM PADMA SHRI HERUKA SAMAYA MANUPALAYA / PADMA

SHRI HERUKA TVENOPATISHTHA / DRIDHO ME BHAVA /
SUTOSHYO ME BHAVA / ANURAKTO ME BHAVA / SUPOSHYO
ME BHAVA / SARVA SIDDHIM ME PRAYACCHA / SARVA
KARMA SUCHAME / CHITTAM SHRIYAM KURU HUM / HA
HA HA HA HOH / BHAGAVAN PADMA SHRI HERUKA MAME
MUNCHA / PADMA SHRI HERUKO BHAVA MAHA SAMAYA
SATTVA AH HUM [PHAT] (as many times as you wish)
Causing the Glorified Power of All Blessings to

Descend
AH LA LA HOH / BHAGAVAN SAMAYA HOH / SAMAYA STVAM
HRIH Sambhogakaya of the assembly of deities of Wrathful

Hayagriva,
Arisen from the unchangeable dharmakaya state,
Quickly bestow great blessings at this supreme place.
Initiate and bestow all the attainments on me, the yogi.
Recite many times the root mantra by adding the following:
OM VAJRA AMKUSHA JAH
Blessing all the offering substances

RAM AH
From my heart syllable HRIH, RAM emanates.

From this, flames in the nature of transcendental wisdom
also emanate.
AH is transformed into heaps of unborn blazing light,

Purifying all the stains of the collected offering and increasing them.
RAM YAM KHAM
Out of the non-objectified state of emptiness,

From my heart emanates fire, wind, and water,
That burn, dispel, and wash away all faults of the offering
substances.
In all the qualified and expansive, bliss-supporting vessels,
Offerings of water, sense enjoyments, and music are gathered like
clouds.
The wisdom nectar of choicest medicines blaze and swirl.
Heaps of tormas of flesh, blood, bones
Emanate sensory enjoyments.
The ocean of rakta (blood) is stirred by waves.
Everything is mixed inseparably with the transcendental wisdom
substances
And becomes an uncontaminated, inexhaustible, bliss-giving
treasury.
Blessing the outer offerings

OM AHARA AHARA HUM
OM VAJRA DHUPE AH HUM
OM VAJRA PUSHPE AH HUM
OM VAJRA ALOKE AH HUM
OM VAJRA GHANDHE AH HUM
OM VAJRA NAIVIDYA AH HUM
OM VAJRA SHAPTA AH HUM
Bless the medicine, torma, and rakta with this mantra:
OM SARVA PANCHA AMRITA HUM (3x)

OM MAHA BALIMTA PUJA TEJVA HUM (3x)
OM MAHA PADMA RAKTA HUM (3x)
The Actual Body of the Practice
Generating the Supporting Mandala and the

Supported Deity out of the Three Concentrations
HUM From the vast expanse of ultimate nature.
All the various phenomena appear naturally.
They do not have nature [inherent existence],
They are like the reflection of the moon in water.
Everything is pervaded by great compassion.
The heart wisdom appears in the shape of HUM.
OM SHUNYATA JNANA SAMATI HUM

OM DHARMADHATU SAMATI HUM
OM JNANA VAJRA SAMATI HUM
HUM SPHARANA PHAT / SAM HARANA HUM
EH YAM RAM KHAM SUM KEM BHRUM
All the seed syllables and mantras completely transform into the
five elements,
Mount Meru, and the spontaneously actualized celestial mansion.
OM AGNE MANDALA HUM
From EH appears a light blue sky mandala, triangular in shape.

Above it is:
YAM KARMA RAKSHA MANDALA HUM
YAM transforms into a smoky wind mandala, semi-circular

and rippling.
RAM JVALA MANDALA HUM
RAM transforms into a red fire mandala, triangular and blazing.
KHAM RAKTA MANDALA HUM
KHAM transforms into a red-black ocean of blood, circular and

pulsating.
SUM SUKME MANDALA HUM
SUM transforms into a yellow earth mandala, square and stable.
KEM NIRITI MANDALA HUM
KEM transforms into a square, white Mount Meru of skeletons.
BHRUM VISHVA VISHUDDHE JNANA CHAKRA MANDALA HUM
BHRUM is transformed into a celestial mansion, in the nature

of wisdom.
It is square with four doors, walls, plinth, frieze, garlands and
half-garlands,
A collection of dentils, parapet, pillars, beams, arched roof,
archways, and so forth.
It is endowed with perfect dimensions and all characteristics,
Splendidly beautified, glorious, and grand with the cemeteries
and jeweled ornaments.
Outside are the lotus fence, the eight great cemeteries,

The vajra fence, and blazing heaps of fire like that at the end
of the eon.
In the center of the mansion is a red-black triangular mandala.
In this is a red half-circle with a fence of dry skulls.
Beyond that is a four-spoked wheel, in the color of its direction,
Completely surrounded by a circular garland of wet human
heads.
On the central triangle, on the four spokes, and the four doors is:
PAM PADMA MANDALA
PAM transforms into a exquisite variegated lotus seat.
AH CHANDRA MANDALA
AH transforms into a full moon mandala.
MA SURYA MANDALA
MA transforms into a radiantly blazing sun mandala.
MAHA RUTRA BAM
In the center is a seat composed of male and female black

maras.
DEVA BAM
On the eastern spoke is a seat composed of male and female

smell eaters (gandharvas). [There is a seat for the male wrathful
one and a similar seat for the female one.]
YAMA BAM
On the southern spoke is a seat composed of male and female

vampires.
NAGA BAM
On the western spoke is a seat composed of male and female

naga kings.
YAKSHA BAM
On the northern spoke is a seat composed of male and female

harm givers (yakshas).
HRIH MAM
Onto the central seat descended a syllable HUM,

Which transformed into a red-black syllable HRIH and a blue
syllable MAM.
SPHARANA PHAT
Light emanated from them, pleased with offerings the assemblies

of arya beings
And purified every single negativity and obscuration of sentient
beings.
SAM HARANA HUM
Returned back, the light absorbed into both seed syllables.
TISHTHA VAJRA
They became inseparable and stable.
OM VAJRA KRODHA HAYAGRIVA HULU HULU HUM PHAT

OM MAHA KRODHISHVARI HUM PHAT
From both HRIH and MAM I became completely transformed

Into the holy body of Hayagriva, the Lotus Great Controller.
I have three faces: right white, left green, and center red-black.
On the crown is a green horse head
With a white blaze, and a red mane with a yellow cloth hanging
from it,
Whinnying with a shrill sound toward the ten directions.
The faces all have three round bloodshot eyes.
The brows and beards are yellow, shining like lightning.
The hair is matted, dark brown (like chocolate) and beautified by
standing upright.
I, Hayagriva, have six arms, the first right hand holds a lotus
And the left holds a skull filled with blood
With these arms I embrace the Mother of Great Bliss.
The remaining two right hands hold an iron hook and a club.
The remaining two left hands hold a lasso and a blazing sword.
The upper part of the holy body wears a human skin and a wet
elephant hide.
The lower part of the holy body is adorned with a tiger skin skirt.
The dried skull head ornament is topped with jewels.
The holy body is adorned with bone ornaments,
A triple garland each of fifty human heads – dried, wet, and
withered –
Jewels, and the four types of snakes.
The holy body is smeared with fingerprints of fat,

Drops of blood, and heaps of human ashes.
Having the garuda wings of complete victory over the three realms.
Having four legs and standing with the right legs bent
In the expression of the nine-fold dancing posture.
Entwining the right side of the lord is the secret mother, the lotus
dancing one,
The color of her holy body is blue-black, with one face and
two arms,
Three eyes agape, and the mouth snarling with bared fangs.
The hair, matted and thick, is black like the gloom of darkness.
The right hand, holding a heart, embraces the Father.
The left hand, holding a great conch shell (skull) filled with an
ocean of blood,
Makes offering to the mouth of the great magnificent lord.
In this way visualize clearly the Lord Father-Mother.

Blessing the three places

OM AH HUM
At the crown of both the father and the mother is a moon disc,
At their throats a lotus, and at their hearts a sun disc,
Respectively adorned with a white OM, a red AH, and a blue HUM,
Thus blessing the body, speech, and mind.
Receiving the empowerment

OM BANDHA KAPALA BHRUM
HUM OM SVA AM HA
The head is adorned with a five skull turret: on the crown there is
a blue HUM;
At the forehead a white OM; above the right ear a yellow SVA;
At the back of the head red AM; and above the left ear a
green HA.
HUM VAJRA HERUKA

OM BUDDHA HERUKA
SVA RATNA HERUKA
AM PADMA HERUKA
HA KARMA HERUKA
The five seed syllables are completely transformed into the blood
drinkers of the five types (the five lords of the buddha families) be-
come the full ornaments of the crown.
OM ABHISHANCHA HUM
Being in Union and Generating All the

Surrounding Deities
HUM BAM
At the Father’s secret place a syllable HUM takes the aspect of a

five-pronged vajra.
At the Mother’s secret place a syllable PAM becomes an eight-
petaled lotus.
The openings of both secret places are blocked by PHAT.
SAMAYA HOH / SAMAYA STVAM

ANURAGAYAMI / ANURAGAYAHO
JAH HUM BAM HOH
With mutual desire the Father and Mother engage in union.

The sound of great bliss that follows invokes the buddhas and
their children.
They enter the mouth of the Father and dissolve into light at the
heart.
BODHICHITTA SPHARANA PHAT
Through the path of the vajra they descend into the Mother’s
space (womb),
And become the essence of the eight syllable drops.
HUM HUM HUM HUM JAH HUM BAM HOH

SPHARANA PHAT
SAMHARANA HUM
OM VAJRASHVARA KRODHA HUM PHAT
On the seat of the eastern spoke there is a syllable HUM

That transformed into the Great Vajra Having Control
Who has a white wrathful holy body,
One face, and two arms. The right hand holds a vajra,
And the left, a club in a manner of great grandeur.
OM RATNASHVARA KRODHA HUM PHAT
On the seat at the southern spoke, there is a syllable HUM

That transformed into the Great Jewel Having Control
With a yellow-blue wrathful holy body,
One face, and two arms. The right hand holds a jewel,
And the left, a hook in a hooking manner.
OM PADMASHVARA KRODHA HUM PHAT
On the seat at the western spoke, there is a syllable HUM

That transformed into the Great Lotus Having Control.
With a red wrathful holy body,
One face, and two arms. The right hand holds a lotus,
And the left, a noose in a binding manner.
OM KARMASHVARA KRODHA HUM PHAT
On the seat at the northern spoke, there is a syllable HUM

That transformed into the Great Best Action Having Control
With a green-red wrathful holy body.
One face, and two arms. The right hand holds a sword ,
And the left, a trident in a stabbing manner.
All of them have three eyes and are snarling with bare fangs.
Their hair is dark brown, beautified, bristling, and bound by snakes.
Their bodies are adorned with each and every vestment of
the cemeteries.
They stand with left and right legs stretched and bent respectively,
amidst a mass of fire.

On the seat of the eastern door,

Is a syllable JAH,
Transformed into the Hook Woman,
White, with matted blood-red hair,
Holding a hook, a lung, and a heart.
OM VAJRA PASHA HUM
On the seat of the southern door,

Is a syllable HUM,
Transformed into the Noose Lady,
Yellow, with matted turquoise hair,
Holding a noose, a lung, and a heart.
OM VAJRA SPHOTA BAM

On the seat of the western door,
Is a syllable BAM,
Transformed into the Iron Chain Woman,
Red, with matted dark blue hair,
Holding an iron chain, a lung, and a heart.
OM VAJRA GANTE HOH

On the seat of the northern door,
Is a syllable HOH,
Transformed into the Bell Lady.
Green, with matted golden hair,
Holding a bell, a lung, and a heart.
All four female wrathful ones have one face, two legs, and
two arms.
They are adorned with the vestments of the cemeteries and stand
amidst a conflagration.
In this way, visualize clearly the assembly of surrounding deities.

Hooking and Receiving the Wisdom Beings

OM VAJRA SAMAYA HUM JAH HRIH
Light rays emanate from the syllable HRIH at my heart

And implore the holy mind of the highly glorified
Assembly deities of the Great Magnificent One.
With compassion, please arise in your holy body

From the natural abode.
Because of your samaya, please be here at this place.
EH HYE HI BHAGAVAN MAHAKARUNIKA TRISHYA HOH

SAMAYA JAH
SAMAYA STVAM
Thus invite them.
Prostrate with:
ATIPUHO
JAH HUM BAM HOH

SAMAYA STVAM
Thus request them to absorb [in the visualization] and abide.
Offering the substances

HRIH To the assembly deities of Extremely Secret Wrathful Great
Controller,
I respectfully offer: Drinking water, sense enjoyments, medicine,
rakta, torma, and so forth,
Increased into an ocean of wish-fulfilling desire objects.
Please accept them with compassion.
OM SARVA TATHAGATA MAHA PADMESHVARA

SAPARIVARA ARGHAM PRATICCHA PUJA
MEGHA SAMUDRA SPHARANA SAMAYE AH HUM
In the same way, make the outer offerings, substituting drinking

water with incense, flowers, light, perfume, food, and music.
Substitute ARGHAM with VAJRA DHUPE, VAJRA PUSHPE, VAJRA
ALOKE, VAJRA GANDHE, VAJRA NAIVIDYA and VAJRA SHAPTA.

SAPARIVARA VAJRA DHUPE PRATICCHA PUJA

SAPARIVARA VAJRA PUSHPE PRATICCHA PUJA

SAPARIVARA VAJRA ALOKE PRATICCHA PUJA

SAPARIVARA VAJRA GANDHE PRATICCHA PUJA

SAPARIVARA VAJRA NAIVIDYA PRATICCHA PUJA

SAPARIVARA VAJRA SHAPTA PRATICCHA PUJA
OM SARVA TATHAGATA MAHA PADMESHVARA SAPARIVARA

SARVA PANCHA AMRITA KHARAM KHAHI
KAYA SIDDHI OM
VAKKA SIDDHI AH
CHITTA SIDDHI HUM
OM SARVA PANCHA AMRITA KHARAM KHAHI
Thus offer the medicinal nectar.

Offer the rakta with:
MAHARAKTA KHARAM KHAHI
Perform the offering of union with:
PADMA SUKHA BODHICHITTA SVAHA
Perform the annihilation offering with:
NRI TRI JAH / SARVA BIGHANA SHATRUM MARAYA PHAT

MAHAMAMSA / MAHARAKTA / MAHA KEM NIRITI /
MAHAPANCHA AMRITA KHARAM KHAHI
[This is an offering of severing the evil mind from the body.]
Offer the torma with:
MAHABALIMTA KHARAM KHAHI BHIBA HOH
Offer the five poisons, the samaya ingredients, as consecrated

substances with:
MAHAMAMSA KHAHI / MAHARAKTA KHAHI / MAHA KEM

NIRITI KHAHI / MAHABASUTA KHAHI / MAHA GOROCHANA
KHAHI
Offer the six sense pleasures with:
OM RUPA / SHAPTA / GANDHE / RASA / SPARSHA /

DHARMADHATU KAMAGUNA PUJA MEGHA SAMUDRA
SPHARANA SAMAYE AH HUM
Praise
HRIH Although not moving from the sphere of clear light,
You are the manifestation of great bliss, the [state of] unification,
Displaying various emanation bodies:
I prostrate to the Magnificent Supreme Stallion.
Although completely free from all mental fabrications,

You adopt the mode of an illusory woman
To subdue by desire those who have desire:
I prostrate to the Wrathful Mother.
Transformation of the contaminated aggregates is the wisdom

holy body
Which is completely purified of delusions.
You, the four Wrathful Conquerors, fully perform the four activities:
To you, I prostrate.
You are purified of eternalism, nihilism,and a naturally existing I.
[The extreme of eternalism is samsara, the extreme of nihilism

is the sorrowless state of the lesser vehicle. The way of liberat-
ing from these two is – as mention in the teachings of the Ab-
hisamayalankara – by having wisdom you don’t abide in sam-
sara, by having compassion you don’t abide in peace. One
should stop the two extremes, eternalism and nihilism, by hav-
ing wisdom realizing emptiness and by great compassion.
This contains the inherent existence of the person and the inher-
ent existence of phenomena (the aggregates). See Liberation in the
Palm of your Hand by Pabongka Rinpoche or any teachings by H. H.
the Dalai Lama on emptiness. Also Jeffrey Hopkins’ Meditation on

Emptiness.]
You are the essence of four means of drawing: [giving, speaking

sweetly, working for others, and practicing what you teach]
And the essence of immeasurable thought.
Hooking, entering, binding, and controlling,
To you, the Ladies of the Four Doors, I prostrate.
In order to subdue all vicious beings

You are extremely wrathful, overwhelming, and irresistible,
And well-aligned like a blazing garland:
I prostrate to all those who abide by the order (the protectors).
Having the completely purified twelve related dependent limbs

And the nature of the thirty-seven dharmas leading in the
direction of enlightenment,
Essence of great bliss, well completed;
To that unfathomable mansion, I prostrate.
Ground, fence, and tent of non-dual wisdom vajra,
Having blazing heaps of wisdom fire:
To that protecting wheel, I prostrate.
By this virtue of offering praises to you,
May I completely eliminate the obstacles of the path,
May I fully complete the two accumulations in this life,
And attain enlightenment, the essence of the four holy bodies.
The Practice of Graduated Dzab

HUM At the heart of myself as the Wrathful Conqueror, Glorious
Supreme Stallion,
On the stamens of an eight-petaled lotus,
Is the heart syllable HRIH, surrounded by the mantra upon the
eight petals.
Light issues forth and absorbs into all the tathagatas,
Giving the outer, inner, and secret offerings.
Collects the attainments of holy body, speech, and mind,
Purifies the stains of the three doors of sentient beings,
And absorbs back into the body, speech, and mind of the yogi.
[Perform the meditation combining the generation and comple-

tion stages.]
HRIH VAJRA KRODHA HAYAGRIVA HULU HULU HUM PHAT



OM VAJRA PASHA HUM
OM VAJRA SPHOTA BAM
OM VAJRA GHANTE HOH
Do the meditation on the sound of the shrill whinny one time.

Recite the mantras of the principal deities and the retinue as
much as you wish. At the end of the recitation recite the vowels
and consonants, and the dependent arising heart mantra, three
times each, and then the hundred-syllable mantra.
ALI (Vowels)
OM A AA I II U UU RI RII LI LII E AI O AU AM AH SVAHA
(3x)
KALI (Consonants)
OM KA KHA GA GHA NGA / CHA CHHA JA5 JHA NYA /
TA THA DA DHA NA / TA THA DA DHA NA / PA PHA BA
BHA MA / YA RA LA VA / SHA SHA SA HA KSHA SVAHA
(3x)
Dependent-Related Heart Mantra

OM YE DHARMA HETU PRABHAVA HETUN TESHAN
TATHAGATO HYAVADAT TESHAÑ CHAYO NIRODHA EVAM
VADI MAHA SHRAMANA YE SVAHA (3x)
The Hundred-Syllable Mantra

ME BHAVA / SARVA SIDDHIM ME PRAYACCHA / SARVA
KARMA SUCHAME / CHITTAM SHRIYAM KURU HUM / HA
HA HA HA HOH / BHAGAVAN PADMA SHRI HERUKA MAME
MUNCHA / PADMA SHRI HERUKO BHAVA MAHA SAMAYA
SATTVA AH HUM [PHAT]
Praises to Dzab
HUM Supreme Wrathful Conqueror of the lotus family,
Most glorious Lotus Heruka,
Inexhaustible Wrathful Conqueror, Supreme Horse,
Great controlling, wrathful, most powerful, overwhelming,
and furious.
My red-black body is awesome, elegant, and sensuous.

My three heads show the three doors to liberation.
My six arms eradicate the six streams of consciousness.
My four legs liberate from the four dharmas of cyclic existence.
My holy body is perfected with the eight vestments of the
cemeteries;
My green horse head makes the sound of a shrill whinny.
Standing in the midst of a colossal, blazing bonfire,

I roar with the overwhelming voice of a thousand dragons,
Bringing under my control the male and female lordly spirits
(dregpa).
I offer praise and prostrate to the holy body of the Great Controller.
Taking the Attainment of the Recitation

HUM Wrathful Conqueror, awesome magnificent Supreme Stallion,
Please bestow on me, the yogi, now, in this instant,
The supreme attainment, the wisdom wish-fulfilling jewel,
From the supreme holy body, speech, and mind of the
Glorious One.
OM PADMANTAKRITA PADMASHVARI MAHAKRODHA

HAYAGRIVA MAMA DRAGMO DUNTIM HRIM HRIM HUM JAH
(21x or 3x)
OM PADMAKRODHA KAYA VAKKA CHITTA SIDDHI AH LA LA

HOH (minimum 7x)
Concluding Practices
Making Offerings to the Protectors of the

Doctrine
RAM YAM KHAM BHRUM
Bless all the offering substances with:
OM AH HUM
HRIH Any form appearing from the magical power of the various
minds are the field of illusion.
From the vajra palace, which is the appearance of innate wisdom,
I request the assemblies of commanded and pledged protectors,
please be here.
OM EH HYE HI JAH JAH
Thus invoke them.
VAJRA SAMAYA RAKSHANTU
Thus bind them by pledge.
OM SHRI DHARMAPALA NIDHIPATI SAPARIWARA IDAM

BALIMTA KHA KHA KHAHI KHAHI (3x or 7x)
With this, offer the torma.

Offer from ARGHAM to SHAPTA.
OM SHRI DHARMAPALA NIDHIPATI SAPARIVARA ARGHAM

PRATICCHA HUM SVAHA
OM SHRI DHARMAPALA NIDHIPATI SAPARIVARA PADYAM

PRATICCHA HUM SVAHA
OM SHRI DHARMAPALA NIDHIPATI SAPARIVARA VAJRA

DHUPE PRATICCHA HUM SVAHA

PUSHPE PRATICCHA HUM SVAHA

ALOKE PRATICCHA HUM SVAHA

NAIVIDYA PRATICCHA HUM SVAHA

SHAPTA PRATICCHA HUM SVAHA
MAHAPANCHA AMRITA KHAHI

MAHARAKTA KHAHI
With this offer the medicine and rakta.
Do the confession and fulfillment:
HUM Clouds of offering, a treasure as vast the whole sky, pleases

and fulfills the pledged protectors.
All these treasures [phenomena] that can appear and exist mani-
fest as heaps of desire enjoyments.
The various virtues of all cyclic existence and nirvana swirled
into one.
The unification of bliss and voidness in the play of illusory form

Satisfies the holy minds of the oceans of commanded and pledged
protectors.
I confess from my heart all the collections of mistakes, transgres-
sions and misunderstandings.
By satisfying your holy minds and reviving all degenerated and
broken samayas,
You remove all obstructing conditions and accomplish every
harmonious condition without exception.
Praise and Request for the Activities

HUM To you, the ocean of those living in samaya, who live in the
order with their retinue;
Who, out of compassion, arose in the form of the holy body
From the unborn sphere [dharmakaya] in order to protect the
teaching of the Buddha,
With a mind of devotion, I prostrate and offer praises.
By accepting this ocean of offering tormas made with consecrat-
ed substances,
May all of us –masters, disciples and all surrounding beings –
Accomplish, without the mind being distracted, the four activities.
May the teachings of the Buddha spread and increase.
Performing the Tsog Offering

Dispel the interferers with the boundary mantra:
OM RAM KRODHA RAKSHA VAJRA JVALA RAM TISHANA

VISHVA JVALA RAM PHAT PHAT RAM RAM
RAM YAM KHAM
OM SVABHAVA SHUDDHA SARVA DHARMA SVABHAVA

SHUDDHO HAM
By this purify in emptiness.
While the tsog substances are empty, AH and MA, which become
sun and moon containers, appear. Upon them, the three syllables
OM, AH, and HUM melt and become the five desire enjoyments
and the heaps.
[First the 5 desire enjoyments and then by multiply lights are in-
creased and become heaps.]
OM AH HUM (3x)
OM MAHARATNA KAMALA VISHUDDHE HUM
By this bless [the tsog].
Inviting the guests

HUM Please descend here from the sphere of the completely
pure nature [dharmakaya],
Irresistible, wrathful emanated deities of the mandala of the Lo-
tus Great Controlling One.
Be here to enjoy this feast [tsog].
OM EH HYE HI BHAGAVAN MAHAKARUNIKA MAHA

PADMESHVARA SAPARIVARA VAJRA SAMAJAH / PADMA
KAMALAYE STVAM
Offering the general tsog

HUM These unsurpassable, supreme sacred offerings,
Emanate the radiant light of the five wisdoms,
They are beautifully adorned with the five desire enjoyments.
In accordance with your samaya, please accept them in whichever

way you wish.
OM MAHA PADMESHVARE SAPARIVARA IDAM DHUPE …

PUSHPE … DIPAM … GANDHE … NAIVIDYA PRATICCHA SVAHA
HUM Forms, sounds, smells, and objects of the mind consciousness,

Inexhaustible desire enjoyments - a treasure of the sky,
These offerings of the great enjoyment tsog
Are in inconceivable quantities,
Filling up the whole sky,
I offer these to the assembly deities of the mandala.
Please accept this desire enjoyment offering.
AH LA LA [Please enjoy!]
OM MAHA PADMESHVARA SAPARIVARA KAMA GUNA PUJA

HOH
To offer in detail, divide the tsog into three parts. First offering by
praising:
The Great Principal who is enriched with the power of dancing,

Sensuous, heroic, and fearful;
Laughing, scolding, and terrifying;
Compassionate, overwhelming, peaceful, and so forth.
The features of your body are extremely changeable in dance.
Showing [these] to the practitioner yogi.
I am offering the essential (substances)
Such as the “moon,” “mamsa,” and so forth.
As well as sandalwood scents.
The “essential substances” are offerings of high quality blessed in

the nature of nectar. “Essential” here refers to the substances hav-
ing the special qualities of color, taste, tangible objects, and power.
“Taste” also refers to the supreme taste, which is sweet with a cool
sensation. Like the moon, milk, or the color of mercury, they are
white and pure. The power the offering objects possess is the pow-
er of being able to restore life to those who have died.
“Mamsa” is defined as meat. The words “so forth” refer to vari-
ous tsog substances such as wine, flowers, light offerings, fruit,
incense, and so on.
Please accept all that I offer as most pure and perfect. Bless me,
the yogi, [with] the supreme tangible objects of the humans, fe-
male beings.
The commentary states the above as “…the human daughters,”

which pertains to the consort that helps you to develop the ex-
tremely subtle wisdom, the clear light, the simultaneously born
bliss and wisdom, which is the quickest method to cut the defile-
ments.
Please make all these substance of achievement powerful (by

means of) HUM and PHAT.
By expressing “HUM” one is able to generate the ultimate real-

ization of bliss and voidness in one’s mental continuum. Through
expressing “PHAT” one developing ones mental continuum to be
capable of eliminating the demon, self-grasping, in the sphere of
emptiness.
MAHA PADMESHVARA SAPARIVARA GANACHAKRA PUJA

KHARAM KHAHI
Cut the middle torma and offer.

HUM Assembled guru deities of the mandala, please pay attention

to me:
Due to ignorance, with our body, speech, and mind we have care-
lessly violated our pledges.
We are requesting to you, whose holy mind is enriched with great
compassion:
Please have patience for whatever actions we have done against
the sacred mind of the assembly deities of the Lotus Great Con-
troller’s mandala.
Please be patient and purify us.
Grant pure miraculous attainments.
Recite the hundred-syllable mantra many times.

ME BHAVA / SARVA SIDDHIM ME PRAYACCHA / SARVA KARMA
SUCHAME / CHITTAM SHRIYAM KURU HUM / HA HA HA HA
HOH / BHAGAVAN PADMA SHRI HERUKA MAME MUNCHA /
PADMA SHRI HERUKO BHAVA MAHA SAMAYA SATTVA AH HUM
[PHAT]
Lastly, perform the “offering by cutting”:
EH RAM / JVALA RAM / PHAT RAM / EH RNRI TRI JAH / NAMO

[I pay homage.]
By power of the direct and indirect gurus, mind-seal deities, Three

Precious Sublime Ones,
And particularly the assembly deities of the Lotus Great Controller,
As well as the assembly deities of heroes, dakinis, and Dharma
protectors,
(As well as) by the power of mantra, concentration, and the truth
of unbetraying dependent arising,
May the consciousness and life force of all harming enemies and
interferers who damage the collections of goodness of the
teachings of Buddha and also sentient beings be hooked here
on this visualized base, instantly, at this very moment.
VAJRA AMKUSHA JAH

VAJRA PASHA HUM
VAJRA SPHOTA BAM
VAJRA GANTE HOH
PRABESHAYA PHAT
ABESHAYA PHAT
Thus generate the effigy, hook, and absorb.
HUM The blazing of the wrathful emanations will destroy all the
ten fields without exception, cut the net of disturbing thoughts of
samsara, and eliminate the five poisons into the sphere [of great
emptiness].
[The ten fields refer to the evil doers who commit ten heavy neg-
ative acts such as harming the guru, destroying the teachings,
harming living beings, and so forth.]
OM PADMA SHRI HERUKA MAHAKRODHA PADMANTAKRITA

CHANDHA RAGA PASHAM MARAYA KILI KILA HUM PHAT
SARVA BIGHANAN SHATRUM MARAYA PHAT
Thus annihilate.
OM HRIH SHTRIH VIKRITANANA HUM PHAT
All enemies and interferers MARAYA NASHAYA STAMBHAYA HUM

PHAT
Thus cut the form with a knife.
HUM I am making an offering of the flesh, blood, bones, intes-

tines, liver,
Desire, hatred, ignorance, pride, and jealousy
Of the enemies and interferers who were annihilated into the
sphere [emptiness]
Please accept as substances the body, speech, mind, qualities,
and activities.
MAHA PANCHA AMRITA / MAHABALIMTA / MAHAMAMSA /

MAHARAKTA / MAHACHITTA / MAHABASUTA / MAHA KEM
NIRITI / MAHA GOROCHANA KHAHI
AH LA LA HOH
By saying this, enjoy the tsog. Then, send away the remaining
torma:
OM AH HUM (3x)
Recite all the mantras from HRIH VAJRA KRODHA HAYAGRIVA

HULU HULU HUM PHAT to OM VAJRA GANTE HOH.



OM VAJRA PASHA HUM
OM VAJRA SPHOTA BAM
OM VAJRA GHANTE HOH
HRIH From the red-black triangular empowerment mandala,

[Arises the assembly of deities of the conqueror, the Great Magnifi-
cent Blood Drinker, Surrounded by a retinue of a hundred thou-
sand groups of haughty spirits (dregpa),
Arising into a body from the abode of the wondrous Great
Powerful One,
Accept this torma adorned with consecrated substances.
Please bestow the common and supreme attainments.
Turn to atoms of ashes the harmful enemies and interfering [spirits].
Accomplish the activities entrusted to you by the yogi.
To the holy mouth of all those who reside above,
MAHA PANCHA AMRITA KHAHI / MAHABALIMTA KHAHI /
MAHARAKTA KHAHI
In this way make offerings to those who reside above.
To all the assemblies of deities who have control over the remain-
ing food of the Magnificent Great One,
EH HYE HI JAH JAH MUDRA SAMAYA HUM
MUDRA SAMAYA PHAT
BODHICHITTA SPHARANA PHAT
HUM There is nothing to offer with first pure essence (E), the De-
stroyer, Qualified, Highly Glorified One is the owner of the first
pure essence.
In the middle, there is nothing to enjoy the tsog (E), the Mother and
the sisters enjoy the tsog.
There is nothing to make the last residue (E), the Great Control-
ler’s servant possesses the residue.
The residue is not sprinkled with mouth water (E).
There is a great difference between the Lord and subjects.
There is nothing to mix the three aspects into one (E).
In the sphere of existence there is no bad and good.
By making offering, there is no reliance for the activities (E).
Destroying the teaching of the Dharma wheel happened.
[E = emptiness. According to Kirti Tsenshab Rinpoche’s commen-

tary, this is all related to emptiness like the Heart Sutra. Accord-
ing to Choden Rinpoche’s commentary: the first one is a way of
expressing that one should make offering with the first pure es-
sence although expressed negatively. ..in the middle one should
enjoy the tsog… one should make the last residue… one should
sprinkle with mouth water… one should mix the three into one…
one should rely for the activities.]
HRIH From the black-red triangular-shaped mandala the Destroy-

er Qualified Highly Glorified One assembly of the deities com-
pletely surrounded by the host of armies, the five types of great
Garuda and Rahula, mamo, maras, tsen, gyalpo and so forth, and
the eight groups of cannibal devas who take the torma and give
help, I offer this torma beautifully adorned, please accomplish the
actions that I rely upon you for. In the holy mouth of the assembly
of deities of the residue tsog.
IDAM BALIM GRIHANA GRIHANA KHA KHA KHAHI KHAHI

PUJA HOH / RAKTA PIPAM HOH SAMAYA SVAHA
YAHI GACCHA
I request to turn back by saying this.

Torma Offering
If you wish to offer torma, bless it by reciting:
OM AH HUM (3x)
HRIH The protectors who are living in the pledge,

put under the restriction (seal) by the assemblies
of Heruka and possessor of siddhis (attainments)
please descend here and take this samaya ingredi-
ents torma. Please perform the activities entrusted
to you by your oath.
DHARMAPALA NIDHIPATI SAPARIVARA MAHA BALIMTA KHAHI

/ VAJRA SAMAYA RAKSHANTU
Offer this and rely upon them for action.
Offering torma to Tenma

TRAM RATNA TRAILOKYA PHAT / OM AH HUM (3x)
OM ARALI HRIM HRIM JAH JAH / BHYOH PADMA MAMO
Twelve Tenma and their own horsed entourage who listen to the
order of the Great Controlling One please be here, take the sa-
maya substance torma as you promised in the past, took the sa-
maya, please accomplish the actions that I rely upon you for. In
the holy mouth of the Twelve Tenma MAHA BALIMTA MAHA PAN-
CHA AMRITA MAHA RAKTA KHA KHA KHAHI KHAHI.
Offer by saying this.
Request to turn back with this:
YAHI GACCHA
If one wishes to elaborate:
E RNRI TRI JAH
HRIH From the mandala of non-detachment lotus on the aggre-

gates of the superstition interferors by beating the Tor of the play
of non-duality the great mass of demons conception of duality is
destroyed.
HRIH VAJRA KRODHA HAYAGRIVA HULU HULU HUM PHAT all the
enemy interferers STAMBHAYA NAN
Beat the Tatro (a type of Tibetan drum) by saying this.
Now the thanking offering:
OM SARVA TATHAGATA MAHA PADMASHVARA SAPARIVARA

SARVA MAHA PANCHA AMRITA KHAHI / MAHA BALIMTA
KHAHI / MAHA RAKTA KHAHI
Make offering with the previous mantra OM SARVA TATHAGATA

MAHA PADMESHVARA SAPARIVARA from ARGHAM to SHAPTA.

ARGHAM PRATICCHA HUM SVAHA

PADYAM PRATICCHA HUM SVAHA

PUSHPE PRATICCHA HUM SVAHA

DHUPE PRATICCHA HUM SVAHA

ALOKE PRATICCHA HUM SVAHA

GANDHE PRATICCHA HUM SVAHA

NAIVIDYA PRATICCHA HUM SVAHA
Praise and Request

HRIH The Glorified Supreme Horse (the Father) changing in the
dance of the uncontaminated bliss.
The Glorified Supreme Horse (the Mother), the dancing Female
Controlling One, in the expression of emptiness and compas-
sion.
The assemblies of the mandala deities of the various transforma-
tions (the surrounding deities)
And to the five kings, Rahula and Begtse, great protectors,
I praise.
May the blood drinker nine-deities protectors abiding in the
pledge extremely develop the rest of the panacea and happi-
ness, the stainless teaching of the Victorious One, through ex-
planation and practice, and please make the groups of sangha
who preserve the teaching increase.
May I who respectfully rely upon you destroying the interfer-
ers, be victorious over the obstacle, the war of the host of the
maras and be like you, who are the Wrathful Controller and
the Eminent One in power and strength.
Like this praise and request for wishes.

Request for Forgiveness

Being under the control of ignorance, all the mistakes that were
done against the holy mind of the Lotus Great Controller assem-
bly of the deities, we confess from the heart. Please be patient
with us.
Then recite Vajrasattva’s hundred-syllable mantra eliminating the

mistakes.
OM VAJRASATTVA SAMAYA MANUPALAYA / VAJRASATTVA

TVENOPATISHTHA / DRIDHO ME BHAVA / SUTOSHYO ME
BHAVA / SUPOSHYO ME BHAVA / ANURAKTO ME BHAVA /
SARVA SIDDHIM ME PRAYACCHA / SARVA KARMA SU
CHAME / CHITTAM SHRIYAM KURU HUM / HA HA HA HA HO /
BHAGAVAN SARVA TATHAGATA / VAJRA MAME MUNCHA /
VAJRA BHAVA MAHA SAMAYA SATTVA AH HUM PHAT
Do any of the practices asking the guests to return back or to ab-

sorb into the holy objects and stabilize:
O you who possess the treasury of all beings’ welfare, please

grant the blessings wished for and after returning to the land of
the buddhas, return here in the future. Pray, let it be done.
The transcendental wisdom beings either return back to their nat-

ural abode or if there are holy objects they absorb and stabilize
with them. The samaya beings absorb to oneself as the deity.
The Absorption
The container (place) and essence (living beings), the unfathom-
able mandala, even that absorbs to the entourage. The entourage
absorbs to the principal Mother. The principal Mother absorbs to
the Father. Even the holy body of the Great Controlling One like a
rainbow faded away in the sphere of purity from the beginning.
VAJRA MU
OM MAHASHUNYATA JNANA VAJRA SVABHAVA ATMAKO

HAM
Place the mind in equipoise in the state of reality great empti-

ness.
Again, like a water bubble coming from the water oneself is clari-
fied in the Most Secret Wrathful One. From the holy body a wis-
dom-conflagration of transcendental fire blazes fiercely and it be-
comes a strong armor of fearless protection.
HAYAGRIVA HRIH GAB / BAMODHAYA HRIH GAB / PADMA

BANDHA HRIH GAB / CHANDHA RAKSHA HRIH GAB / RULU
RULU HUM BHYOH HUM
Arise into the deity and protect the body.
Dedication
Due to this merit, may I and so forth sentient beings attain the
state of the Lotus Victorious One (Hayagriva) and spread in ten
directions the voice of the horse of the manifestation of the Bliss
Enjoying One to all the multitudes of those who are born blinded
by ignorance.
Auspicious Prayer
OM The samatuk (a special receptacle) of the holy body, holy
speech, holy mind, and holy actions filled well with attainment
immortal nectar the assemblies of the deities of Hayagriva who
help to accomplish the vajra life that brings all the success of
common and sublime ones be auspicious. By expressing this aus-
picious prayer may everything be happy and good.
The practice ends here.
Dedication by the composer of the sadhana:

By spreading this attaining method of the Great Controlling Extremely Secret
Wrathful One whose action is condensed, clarified and made easy may I be hap-
pily (pleased) guided by the Guru Deity and accomplish spontaneously all the
works for self and others.
Original Colophon:
This which is called La Chung (this text) action transformation integrated into es-
sence of Melodious Song Pleasing the Great Controlling One of the Special Sub-
lime Deity Lotus Great Controlling Hayagriva Extremely Secret Wrathful Blood
Drinker Nine-Deities. I, the follower of the advice of the holy Gurus, Samaya Va-
jra (Kalka Damtsig Dorje), wrote down well in the great Dharma learning monas-
tery Glorified Sera Dechen Ling, originator of oceans of learned attained ones, as
I was persuaded precisely by many virtuous friends who practiced this sublime
deity as mind-sealing deity (yidam) for something like this for their daily practice
which has all the meaning of the elaborate La Chung but less words. The writing
was done by one who is possessor of expanding the extensive infinite scripture
the virtuous friend Losang Tseten. By this merit may the stainless precious teach-
ing of the sutra tantra of the Soft Savior Victorious One (Tsongkhapa) never be
degenerated and spread in all directions at all times and be developed and last
a long time.
This text was spread with Dharma charity without bearing hardships by Sera Je
Geshe Sengye. By this merit may the life of the holy body of the Snow Land savior
and his holy actions be increased, and may the virtue and signs of the teaching of
the transmigratory beings in the Snow Land be increased.
Translator’s Colophon and Dedication

First translated from the Tibetan by Gelongma Jamyang Wangmo, with the kind
assistance of Chatro Rinpoche, Keusang Rinpoche, Khamtrul Rinpoche and Ven-
erable Lhagdor. Dharamsala, March 1996.
Due to these merits, may the life and activities of the protector of the Land of
Snows, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, increase and develop. May the Dharma
flourish. May all beings be happy.
Additional translation/editorial work has been done by Lama Zopa Rinpoche

working together with various students, including Tom Szymanski, Karuna Cay-
ton, Judith Hunt, and Ven. Sarah Thresher. Light editorial polishing and format-
ting by Ven. Constance Miller, FPMT Education Department, November 1999.
Tibetan phonetics checked against the original Tibetan text by Ven. Constance
Miller, July 2003.
Note on the Translation:

Lama Zopa Rinpoche has given the following input regarding this text: “The
Hayagriva sadhana is extremely complicated. Logically, the words do not make
sense a lot of the time as it is a secret tantra. One basically needs a direct under-
standing of emptiness to really understand the meaning of this sadhana. Even in
the Tibetan, the text is extremely unclear and there are many different ways to
interpret it.”
Most Secret Hayagriva

Tsog Offering
TSA GYÜ LA MA YI DAM SHI TRO DANG
Root Gurus, mind bound deities – peaceful and wrathful,
KHE PAR WANG CHEN YANG SANG TRO PÄI LHA
In particular Powerfully Great Extremely Secret Wrathful Deity,
CHOG SUM KHA DRO DAM CHEN SUNG ME TSOG
The Sublime Three, dakinis, the assembly of protectors living
in pledge assembly,
LHA LU SHI DAG GEG RIG LÄN CHAG SOG
Devas, nagas, landlords, interferers, indebted ones, and
so forth,
CHOG MÄN TSOG GYI DRÖN NAM THAM CHÄ LA
Supreme and lesser invited guests of the offering,
DAM TSE TSOG CHÖ DU TSII GYA TSO BÜL
To all his pledged substance, of an ocean of tsog offering nec-
tar, is offered.
ZHE NE NYAM CHAG KUN JANG BAR CHE DOG
By taking this, please purify all degenerations and eliminate
obstacles.
CHOG DANG THUN MONG NGO DRUB TSÄL DU SOL
Please bestow all supreme and common attainments.
GANA CHAKRA PUNZA KHA RANG KHAHI
Colophon:
Translated by Venerable Tsenla, Vajrapani Institute Most Secret Hayagriva Re-
treat, October 1997. Phonetics scribed by Ven. Holly Ansett and edited by Vener-
able Gyalten Mindrol, FPMT Education Services, November 2009.
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The Melodious Song Pleasing

the Great Powerful One

An essential compendium of the ritual activities of the

Composed by Kalka Damtsig Dorje

© 2009 FPMT Inc.

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Most Secret Hayagriva Tsog Oﬀering 47

The Melodious Song Pleasing

NAMO GURU HAYAGRIVAYA

Having respectfully paid homage to the magnificent great power-

Herein is presented a condensed daily recitation of the activi-

This sadhana is divided into three sections: the preliminary prac-

The Preliminary Practices

Meditation on the Four Immeasurable Thoughts

Requesting Prayer to the Lineage Lamas and

To Limitless Illumination [Amitabha Buddha], to the Great

Please accept these pure oﬀerings,

I generate the mind of complete enlightenment:

I and all limitless sentient beings

Having gathered all the virtues of countless lifetimes,

Eminent supreme field of guru deities,

Driving Away the Obstacles and Establishing the

From my heart, clarified as the holy body of the Supreme Horse-

OM RAM KRODHA RAKSHA VAJRA JVALA RAM TISHANA

Purifying negative karma and obscurations

We are ignorant and disturbed sentient beings,

With whatever actions we have done against you.

OM PADMA SHRI HERUKA SAMAYA MANUPALAYA / PADMA

Causing the Glorified Power of All Blessings to

HRIH Sambhogakaya of the assembly of deities of Wrathful

Recite many times the root mantra by adding the following:

OM VAJRA AMKUSHA JAH

Blessing all the offering substances

From my heart syllable HRIH, RAM emanates.

AH is transformed into heaps of unborn blazing light,

RAM YAM KHAM

Out of the non-objectified state of emptiness,

Blessing the outer offerings

Bless the medicine, torma, and rakta with this mantra:

OM SARVA PANCHA AMRITA HUM (3x)

The Actual Body of the Practice

Generating the Supporting Mandala and the

OM SHUNYATA JNANA SAMATI HUM

EH YAM RAM KHAM SUM KEM BHRUM

OM AGNE MANDALA HUM

From EH appears a light blue sky mandala, triangular in shape.

YAM KARMA RAKSHA MANDALA HUM

YAM transforms into a smoky wind mandala, semi-circular

RAM JVALA MANDALA HUM

RAM transforms into a red fire mandala, triangular and blazing.

KHAM RAKTA MANDALA HUM

KHAM transforms into a red-black ocean of blood, circular and

SUM SUKME MANDALA HUM

SUM transforms into a yellow earth mandala, square and stable.

KEM NIRITI MANDALA HUM

KEM transforms into a square, white Mount Meru of skeletons.

BHRUM VISHVA VISHUDDHE JNANA CHAKRA MANDALA HUM

BHRUM is transformed into a celestial mansion, in the nature

Outside are the lotus fence, the eight great cemeteries,

PAM PADMA MANDALA

PAM transforms into a exquisite variegated lotus seat.

AH transforms into a full moon mandala.

MA transforms into a radiantly blazing sun mandala.