ཨཱ། བདག་གི་སྤྱི་གཙུག་པད་ཟླའི་གདན་སྟེངས་སུ། །
ah, dak gi chitsuk pé dé den teng su
Āḥ! At the crown of my head, upon a lotus and moon-disc,
དཔལ་ལྡན་རྡོ་རྗེ་སེམས་དཔའ་སྤྲུལ་པའི་སྐུ། །
palden dorjé sempa trulpé ku
Is the nirmāṇakāya emanation of glorious Vajrasattva,
དགའ་རབ་རྡོ་རྗེ་དཀར་གསལ་སྤྲུལ་སྐུའི་ཆས། །
garab dorjé karsal tulkü ché
Garab Dorje, brilliant white and with nirmāṇakāya ornaments,
མཚན་དཔེའི་དཔལ་འབར་ཆོས་འཆད་ཕྱག་རྒྱ་ཅན། །
tsenpé palbar chö ché chakgya chen
Ablaze in splendour with the major and minor marks and hands in the Dharma-teaching mudrā.
རབ་འབྱམས་སྐྱབས་ཀུན་འདུས་པའི་ངོ་བོར་དམིགས། །
rabjam kyab kün düpé ngowor mik
I visualize him as the essential embodiment of infinite sources of refuge,
སྙིང་ནས་གདུང་ཤུགས་དྲག་པོས་གསོལ་བཏབ་པས། །
nying né dungshuk drakpö soltab pé
Supplicate with intense devotion from the core of my heart,
ཐུགས་རྒྱུད་དགོངས་པའི་བྱིན་རླབས་འཕོས་པར་བསམ། །
tukgyü gongpé jinlab pöpar sam
And consider that the blessings of realization are transferred from his wisdom mind.
ཡང་ཟབ་བླ་མའི་སྙིང་པོ་རྟག་ཏུ་བསྒྲང་། །
yangzab lamé nyingpo taktu drang
Continuously, I recite this, the most profound essence of the Guru:
ཨོཾ་ཨཱཿམ་ཧཱ་གུ་རུ་པྲ་ཧེ་བཛྲ་ཛྙ་ན་སིདྡྷི་ཧཱུྂ།
om ah maha guru trahé benza dzana siddhi hung
oṃ āḥ mahā guru prahevajra jñāna siddhi hūṃ
བྱིན་རླབས་ཡེ་ཤེས་དངོས་གྲུབ་མྱུར་དུ་ཐོབ། །
jinlab yeshe ngödrub nyurdu tob
Through this I swiftly gain blessings, wisdom and attainments.
འཇམ་དཔལ་རྡོ་རྗེས་སྤེལ་བ་མངྒ་ལཾ། །མེ་བྱ་ཟླ་༡༠ཚེས་༡༦ལའོ། །དགེ།།
Written by Jampal Dorje. Maṅgalaṃ! On the sixteenth day of the tenth month of the Fire Bird year. May it be virtuous!
Mipham Rinpoche
This auspicious coincidence
With great joy I came across this Guru Yoga of Garab Dorje the other day. What a blessing indeed!
Sometimes I cannot comprehend how wondrous it is that the conditionless and conditions manifest such profoundly helpful Dharmas at such moments. Or comprehend how blessed I am to receive these connections, this Tendrel (རྟེན་འབྲེལ་), this auspicious coincidence, this interdependence.
I found myself drawn deeply to this prayer, and whilst not having received an empowerment for it, was compelled to recite it. How deeply it reverberated. How wondrous this feeling where something plays through you, rather than you ‘doing’ it yourself.
Emptiness staring at emptiness, primordially pure.
Spontaneous presence.
Immeasurable compassion.
Seeing Garab Dorje
In this Guru Yoga Garab Dorje is in Nirmanakaya form, white in body, in monk’s clothing, with his hands in teaching mudra. This beautiful thangka image feels perfect – perfect in all senses. I love the way his right leg is slightly forward, just how Green Tara is usually portrayed, as if stepping forward with compassion to help beings.
Recitation and mantra on Youtube
The vehicle for my great good fortune in this instance was Youtube, with the video coming up in my feed as a suggestion. I’m so happy to share this, with it’s beautiful chanting. Encountering the mantra to be repeatedly recited feels especially auspicious.
A Shower of Wisdom
Such a shower of blessings and wisdom indeed.
My endless gratitude to Mipham Rinpoche (1846-1912) who felt moved to write this Guru Yoga, and thus sharing the enduring blessings of Garab Dorje’s realisation and teachings with us. As he says:
Written by Jampal Dorje. Maṅgalaṃ! On the sixteenth day of the tenth month of the Fire Bird year. May it be virtuous!
My gratitude to the Melodious Dharma Sound channel on Youtube who have shared such beautiful chants with those fortunate beings who encounter them.
Yet more gratitude to the incomparable Lotsawa House website who provided the translation of this Shower of Wisdom. What an extraordinary endeavour they are, endlessly translating and publishing these profound teachings. My gratitude to Abraham Ta-Quan who provided the English translation of this Guru Yoga which goes deep into my ‘soul’.
And of course – Garab Dorje! Who sits in my heart. My heart of hearts. My heart which is no-heart.
May all be auspicious!
Original source: Garab Dorje Guru Yoga: Lotsawa House
Translated by Abraham Ta-Quan, 2019.
