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TNT07 0001.The Entrance to Good Fortune, a Ritual for Offering to the Guru..The Entrance to Good Fortune, a Ritual for Offering to the Guru..g2.0f

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Argham, etc. To the faces of the Vajra Dakinis of the three places, Om Ah Hum. All the hosts of gods, etc. Om, the lord of all the worlds, the powerful and wrathful one, the sons of the Sugatas who make servants, the Bodhisattva, compassionate one, the great powerful one with consort, likewise, Vishnu, Brahma, etc., Indra, delighted with consort, the great gods with retinues, the hosts, etc., the eight guardians of the directions with retinues, the eight great Nagas with retinues, the fierce Dakini, the welcoming and holding mother, the hosts of charnel ground mothers with retinues, and also the eight classes of gods and demons, etc., the six classes of beings with retinues, etc., having purified body, speech, and mind, those who hold the forms of their own deities, those who have vows gathered in this place, accept the offerings, tormas, and ornaments. Protect the vows, you who have vows. Dakinis who are diligent in their work, please be friends in accomplishing yoga. By the action-performing Vajra with servants, accomplish the actions of pacifying, increasing, empowering, and wrathful, protect the Great Vehicle secret mantras, pacify diseases and evil spirits, increase lifespan, power, and auspiciousness, and accomplish the fruits of virtue and goodness. Here is a very condensed hand offering torma ritual. The extensive and intermediate rituals should be sought elsewhere. Even if tormas are offered to individual Dharma protectors, the recitation of offering here should also be done at this time. This is known from the uncommon oral instructions. Seventh, praise and supplicate the root and lineage lamas of this Dharma. As before, supplicate with the song of the King of Spring. Offer a mandala, and offer it as the fee for requesting empowerment from the glorious and precious lama. Etc. Great joy, you are my teacher, etc., three times. Great hero, irreversible, please grant me the empowerment. For the sake of all sentient beings, may I always be a teacher. Three times. This Vajra is called Vajra Sattva, He He He Hum Phat. (Tibetan: ཧི་ཧི་ཧི་ཧཱུཾ་ཕཊ།, Sanskrit Devanagari: ह्हि ह्हि ह्हि हुं फट्, Sanskrit Romanization: hi hi hi hūṃ phaṭ, Chinese literal meaning: He He He Hum Phat.) The sentient being without beginning or end is the great joy of Vajra Sattva, Samantabhadra, the lord of all, the lord of the Vajra arrogance. Om Vajra Gandhe Rani Nas A Kham Svaha. (Tibetan: ཨོཾ་བཛྲ་གྷནྡྷེ་ར་ཎི་ནས། ཨ་ཁཾ་སྭཱཧཱ།, Sanskrit Devanagari: ओṃ वज्र गन्धे रणि नस आ खं स्वाहा, Sanskrit Romanization: oṃ vajra gandhe raṇi nas ā khaṃ svāhā, Chinese literal meaning: Om, Vajra, Fragrance, Burn, From, A, Space, Svaha.) The bliss of the essence of existence and non-existence, separated from existence and non-existence by the essence, the mind of self-nature purity.