Sadhana of Vajrasattva

Sadhana of Vajrasattva
 MORNING ACTIVITIES

Increasing Effect Mantra

OM SAMBHARA SAMBHARA BIMANA SARA MAHA JAVA HUM

OM SMARA SMARA BIMANA SKARA MAHA JAVA HUM (7X)
This mantra increases the merit of the day 100,000 times.

Mantra to Increase the Merit of Recitation

TADYATHA OM DHARE DHARE BEN DHARE SVAHA (7X)

This mantra increases the merit of the Dharma texts and sadhanas you recite.
For mantras, it is like having recited the mantra many millions of times. So much
merit!

Mala Blessing Mantra

OM RUCHIRA MANI PRAVARTAYA HUM (7X)

Recite seven times then blow on the mala. This increases the power of the
mantras you recite over one million times.

Mantra for Blessing the Feet

OM KHRECHA RAGHANA HUM HRI SVAHA (7X)

Recite seven times then blow on the sole of each foot, or shoe, whatever directly
touches insects as you walk. (One may also recite this mantra then blow on the
tyres of your car or bicycle).

Dependent-Related Heart Mantra

OM YE DHARMA HETU PRABHAVA HETUN TESHAN TATHAGATO

HYAVADAT TESHAN CHAYO NIRODA EVAM VADI MAHA SHRAMANA YE
SVAHA (3X)
 PAM

OM AH HUM
 VAJRASATTVA SADHANA

Taking Refuge and Generating Bodhicitta

SANG GYÄ CHHÖ DANG TSHOG KYI CHHOG NAM LA

JANG CHHUB BAR DU DAG NI KYAB SU CHHI
DAG GI JIN SOG GYI PÄ TSOG NAM GYI
DRO LA PHÄN CHHIR SANG GYÄ DRUB PAR SHOG (3X)
I go for refuge until I am enlightened
To the Buddha, Dharma, and the Supreme Assembly.
By my merit of giving and other perfections,
May I become a buddha to benefit all sentient beings. (3X)

The Four lmmeasurables

May all sentient beings have happiness and the causes of happiness.
May all sentient beings be free from suffering and the causes of suffering.
May all sentient beings never be separated from higher rebirths and the
supreme bliss of liberation.
May all sentient beings abide in equanimity, free from attachment and
hatred, not holding some close and others distant.

Visualisation of the Deity

Above the crown of one’s head appears a white syllable PAM. This
transforms into a white lotus which is clear and radiant. At the centre of the
lotus appears a white AH which transforms into a white moon disc. At the
centre of the moon disc appears a white HUM. This transforms into a white
five spoked vajra marked by HUM at the centre. Light radiates out from the
vajra into the ten directions filling all of the space. This light fulfills the two
purposes and then reabsorbs into the vajra. The vajra dissolves into light
from which appears Vajrasattva.
He is white, with one face and two arms.
His left hand holds a bell slightly upturned at his left hip; his right hand
holds a vajra at his heart.
He is sitting in the Vajra-asana posture, his legs crossed in full-lotus.
He is dressed in robes of heavenly silk and adorned with precious jewel
ornaments.
At his crown is the syllable OM.
At his throat the syllable AH.
At the centre of a flat moon-disc in his heart is the syllable HUM.
Around the edge of the moon-disc, standing clockwise, are the 100 syllables
of the mantra.
From the HUM at Vajrasattva’s heart much light radiates our invoking the
Divine Wisdom Being.

Offerings to the Wisdom Being

OM VAJRSATTVA SAPARIWARA ARGHAM PRATICCHA HUM SVAHA

(water for washing)

OM VAJRSATTVA SAPARIWARA PADYAM PRATICCHA HUM SVAHA

(water drinking)

OM VAJRSATTVA SAPARIWARA PUSHPE PRATICCHA HUM SVAHA

(flowers)

OM VAJRSATTVA SAPARIWARA DHUPE PRATICCHA HUM SVAHA

(incense)

OM VAJRSATTVA SAPARIWARA ALOKE PRATICCHA HUM SVAHA

(light)

OM VAJRSATTVA SAPARIWARA GHANDE PRATICCHA HUM SVAHA

(perfume)

OM VAJRSATTVA SAPARIWARA NAIVIDYA PRATICCHA HUM SVAHA

(food)

OM VAJRSATTVA SAPARIWARA SHABDA PRATICCHA HUM SVAHA

(music)
 DZA HUM BAM HO.
The invoked Wisdom Being merges and becomes inseparable with the
visualised deity.

Initiation

Again much light radiates out from the divine heart of Vajrasattva, invoking
the buddhas and bodhisattvas in the aspect of the Five Dhyani Buddhas.

Offerings to the Initiating Deities

OM PANCHA KULA SAPARIWARA ARGHAM, PADYAM, PUSHPE, DHUPE,

ALOKE, GHANDE, NAIVIDYA, SHABDA PRATICCHA HUM SVAHA

Receiving the Initiation

“O Tathagatas, please grant the initiation of Vajrasattva.”

The initiating deities lift the vase filled with nectar and pour it on
Vajrasattva. The nectar fills his holy body , and from the overflow on his
crown appears Akshobya Buddha.
OM SARWA TATHAGATA ABIKHE KATA SAMAYE SHRI YE HUM

Offerings to Vajrasattva

OM VAJRASATTVA SAPARIWARA ARGHAM, PADYAM, PUSHPE, DHUPE,

ALOKE, GHANDE, NAIVIDYA, SHABDA PRATICCHA HUM SVAHA
Praise

I praise the non-dual, divine wisdom, the magnificent inner jewel ornament
of all mother sentient beings, which has the characteristic nature of perfect
unchangeable, great, everlasting bliss. By the power of this everlasting,
blissful wisdom you release all sentient beings from negative energy, the
breakage of pledges and vows and all negativities of body, speech and
mind.
Indestructible magnificent wisdom mind, to you I prostrate.

Mandala Offering

SA ZHI PÖ KYJ JUG SHING ME TOG TRAM / RI RAB LING ZHJ NYI DÄ GYÄN
PA DI / SANG GYÄ ZHING DU MIG TE ÜL WA YI / DRO KÜN NAM DAG
ZHING LA CHÖ PAR SHOG
This ground, anointed with perfume, strewn with flowers,
Adorned with Mount Meru, four continents, the sun and the moon:
I imagine this as a buddha-field and offer it.
May all living beings enjoy this pure land!
IDAM GURU RATNA MANDALAKAM NIRATAYAMI

Request

O Bhagawan Vajrasattva, destroyer of all defilements, you who have all

realisations and have passed to the other shore, I request you to purify all
the negativities of myself and all other sentient beings and to wash away
the defilements that have resulted from the breach and degeneration of my
samaya.

After this request is made, much radiant light goes out from the HUM
at Vajrasattva’s heart into the ten directions. This washes away all the
defilements and negativities of all mother sentient beings. It also becomes
an offering for all the buddhas and bodhisattvas. The essence of their
transcendental wisdom-knowledge comes back in the form of light and
sinks into the HUM and mantra garland at Vajrasattva’s heart.
From the HUM and the mantra at Vajrasattva’s heart much blissful white
nectar flows down, and enters through your crown, purifying all negativities
and defilements of body, speech and mind.

The Mantra

OM VAJRA SATTVA SAMAYA/ MA NU PA LA YA/ VAJRA SATTVA DE NO

PA TI THA/ DI DO ME BHA WA/ SU TO KAYO ME BHAWA/ SU PO KAYO
ME BHA WA / AH NU RA TO ME BHAWA/ SAR WA SIDHI ME PAR YA TSA/
SAWA KAR MA SU TSA ME/ TSI TAM SHRI YAM KU RU HUM/ HA HA HA HA
HO/ BHA GA WAN/ SARVA TATHAGATA/ VAJRA MA ME MU TSA/ VAJRA
BHA WA/ MAHA SAMAYA/ SATTVA AH HUM PHAT

Pledge

Due to my ignorance and my delusions I have created negative actions

damaging my samaya. I go for refuge to Guru Vajrasattva, my inner master
who is holding a vajra, who has the power to liberate me, whose essence is
great compassion for all sentient beings.
Then Vajrasattva says to me:

“My child, your breach of samaya is forgiven and all your obscurations and
negativities are washed away and purified.”

Absorbtion

After having said this, Vajrasattva dissolves into light and sinks into me.
My three doors of body, speech and mind and Vajrasattva’s holy body,
speech and mind become completely one without differentiation.
Dedication Prayers

GE WA DI YI NYUR DU DAG
Due to the merits of these virtuous actions
LA MA SANG GYÄ DRUB GYUR NÄ
May I quickly attain the state of a Guru-Buddha
DRO WA CHIG KYANG MA LÜ PA
And lead all living beings, without exception,
DE YI SA LA GÖ PAR SHOG
Into that enlightened state.

JANG CHHUB SEM CHHOG RIN PO CHHE

May the supreme jewel bodhicitta
MA KYE PA NAM KYE GYUR CHJG
That has not arisen, arise and grow;
KYE WA NYAM PA ME PA YI
And may that which has arisen not diminish
GONG NÄ GONG DU PHEL WAR SHOG
But increase more and more.

DONG NYI DA WA RIN PO CHHE

May the supreme jewel-like view of emptiness
MA KYE PA NAM KYE GYUR CHIG
That has not arisen, arise and grow;
KYE PA NYAM PA ME PA YI
And that which has arisen not diminish
GONG NÄ GONG DU PHEL WAR SHOG
But increase more and more.
Long Life Prayer for His Holiness the Dalai Lama

GANG RI RA WÄI KHOR WÄ ZHING KHAM DIR

In the land encircled by snow mountains
PHÄN DANG DE WA MA LÜ JUNG WÄI NÄ
You are the source of all happiness and good;
CHÄN RÄ ZIG WANG TÄN DZIN GYA TSHO YI
All-powerful Chenrezig, Tenzin Gyatso,
ZHAB PA SI THÄI BAR DU TÄN GYUR CHIG
Please remain until samsara ends.

Long Life Prayer for Lama Zopa Rinpoche

THUB TSHÜL CHHANG ZHING JAM GÖN GYÄL WAI TÄN

You who uphold the Subduer’s moral way, who serve as the bountiful
bearer-of-all,
DZIN KYONG PEL WÄ KÜN ZÖ DOG POR DZÄ
Sustaining, preserving, and spreading Manjunath’s victorious doctrine;
CHHOG SUM KUR WÄI LEG MÖN THU DRUB PA
Who masterfully accomplish magnificent prayers honouring the Three
Jewels:
DAG SOG DÜL JÄI GÖN DU ZHAB TÄN SHOG
Saviour of myself and others, your disciples, please, please live long!
 APPENDIX 1

How to Purify During Mantra Recitation

There are three ways to make purification while reciting the mantra. One
can do all three or only one, whatever is most comfortable and depending
on one’s individual practice.

The First Method

Visualise the white blissful kundalini energy flows down from Vajrasattva
into your central channel. It spreads throughout your nervous system,
flowing very strongly like water coming from a hose or like a very powerful
shower, and flushes out all the negativities of your body, speech and mind
through the openings and pores of the lower part of your body. All this
negative energy is expelled in the form of snakes, scorpions, ants, long
worms, etc. or as black tar or dirty black oil.
Feel that you are completely purified, clean and clear, especially that your
gross negativities are overcome and you are filled with blissful pure energy.

The Second Method

The blissful kundalini energy slowly fill your body starting from below.
As the level of amrita arises, your negativities start to rise as well, floating
on top of the nectar, like oil floating on water. Your negativities and
defilements are slowly pushed upward by the pure amrita kundalini energy;
it gradually overflows out of your body through all your upper orifices and
your crown chakra. You experience great bliss.

The Third Method

An immense amount of powerful light energy, limitless blissful kundalini

energy in the form of light, radiates from Vajrasattva’s heart. Immediately
as it makes contact with your crown chakra, the negative energy, especially
your ignorant attachment energy, completely disappears, just as when
a bright light is switched on in a dark room, the darkness instantly and
completely disappears. You cannot say that the darkness leaves through the
window or through the door when a light is turned on. It just disappears, no
longer existing anywhere.

APPENDIX 2

Brief Summary of the Meaning of the Mantra

You, Vajrasattva, have generated the holy mind (bodhicitta) according to

your pledge (samaya). Your holy mind is enriched with the simultaneously
holy action of releasing transmigratory beings from samsara (the circling,
suffering aggregates). Whatever happens in my life - happiness or suffering,
good or bad - with a pleased, holy mind, never give up but please guide me.
Please stabilise all happiness, including the happiness of the upper realms.
Actualise all actions and sublime and common realisations, and please
make the glory of the five wisdoms abide in my heart.
 APPENDIX 3

Detailed Explanation of the Meaning of the Mantra

OM VAJRASATTVA SAMA YA MANUPALAYA / VAJRASATTVA

TVENOPATISTHA / 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
OM: The qualities of Buddha’s holy, speech, and mind; all that is auspicious
and of great value;
VAJRASATTVA: The being who has the wisdom of inseparable bliss and
emptiness;
SAMAYA: A pledge that must not be transgressed;
MANUPALAYA: Lead me along the path you took to enlightenment;
VAJRASATTVA TVENOPATISHTHA: Make me abide closer to Vajrasattva’s
vajra holy mind;
DRIDHO ME BHAVA: Please grant me a firm and stable realisation of the
ultimate nature of phenomena;
SUTOSHYO ME BHAVA: Please grant me the blessing of being extremely
pleased with me;
SUPOSHYO ME BHAVA: Bless me with the nature of well-developed great
bliss;
ANURAKTO ME BHAVA: Bless me with the nature of the love that leads me
to your state;
SARVA SIDDHIM ME PRA YACCHA: Please grant all powerful attainments;
SARVA KARMA SU CHAME: Please grant all virtuous actions;
CHITTAM SHRIYAM KURU: Please grant your glorious qualities;
HUM: The vajra holy mind;
HA HA HA HA HO: The five transcendental wisdoms;
BHAGAVAN: One who has no defilements, has attained all realisations and
passed beyond suffering;
SARVA TATHAGATA VAJRA: All those who have realised emptiness, knowing
things just as they are;
MAME MUN CHA: Do not abandon me;
VAJRA BHAVA: The nature of indestructible inseparability;
MAHA SAMAYA SATTVA: The great being who has the pledge, the vajra holy
mind;
AH: The vajra holy speech;
HUM: The transcendental wisdom of great bliss;
PHAT: Clarifying the transcendental wisdom of inseparable bliss and
emptiness and destroying the dualistic mind that obstructs it.

Reference Acknowledgement

“Taking the Eight Mahayana Precepts” from ‘FPMT Retreat Prayer Book -
Prayers and Practices for Retreat’, Foundation for the Preservation of the
Mahayana Tradition, 2014.