Oṃ Tāre Tuttāre Ture Svāhā / Om Tare Tuttare Ture Svaha

[Myriel RAouine]

Tara Mantra - Ani Choying Drolma - tune in version

 

This discussion is the result of a thread of comments to another discussion on Tree Consciousness. As one of my daughters is called Tara and Param Gian was telling me about the Tara mantra, I asked if she could give me the words - and I was blessed with the following anser, in which Param Gian explains all that is needed to get started with this mantra :-)

 

THANK YOU, dear si-star!

 

 

Dearest Sonja~~

 

~~ Love All Around!   I experience Tara is the Goddess of Pure Love and Great Compassion Essence ~ White Tara gave me the gift of experiencing the openings of the white pure lotuses of the chakras along the radiant central channel and the understanding of that completeness softly and lovingly and how this gift of  softly opening is also a great strength of spiritual fortitude and compassion~ from that time on I have been able to see this beauty of the Central Channel in Bloom ~ Green Tara is Essence of Healing Goddess Energy flowing through us with the gift of healing.  It is about the liberating Grace of Love liberating beings from suffering.  She is a Buddha of Compassion in Feminine Essence.

 

 

Tara Mantra:

 

Om Tare TuTTare Ture SvaHa    is the mantra ~~~

 

 

OM represents Tara's holy body, speech and mind.

 

TARE means liberating from true suffering, the sufferings of samsara, our aggregates being under the control of delusion and karma.

 

TUTTARE means liberating from the 8  fears, the external dangers, but mainly from the internal dangers, the delusions, and also karma.

 

TURE means liberating from the ignorance of the absolute nature for the ego. It shows the true cessation of suffering.

Svaha means "may the meaning of this mantra take root in my mind"

 

 

 

Oṃ Tāre Tuttāre Ture Svāhā / Om Tare Tuttare Ture Svaha

 

The secret words of the Joy Mantra on "dalieh du dalieh dulieh souha" is the Green Tara mantra of Tibetan Buddhism sung by Chinese artist Su Ching-yen.

In Tibet "Om Tare Tuttare Ture Soha"
In Sanskrit "Oṃ Tāre Tuttāre Ture Svāhā"

Tibetan culture, and some others, green is
considered to include all the other colors.

The practice of Green Tara helps to overcome fear and anxiety, but devotees also believe that she can grant wishes, eliminate suffering of all kinds and bring happiness.

 

Tara (whose name means "star" or "she who ferries across") is a Bodhisattva of compassion who manifests in female form. In Tibetan, Tara is known as "Dölma" (Sgrol-ma), or "She Who Saves." In particular she represents compassion in action, since she's in the process of stepping from her lotus throne in order to help sentient beings.

 

When called upon, she instantaneously saves us from eight specific calamities. (Another lineage describes 16.) The First Dalai Lama lists the 8, and interprets them as representative of corresponding defects, flaws, or obscurations:

1) lions and pride

2) wild elephants and delusions

3) forest fires and hatred

4) snakes and envy

5) robbers and fanatical views

6) prisons and avarice

7) floods and lust

8) demons and doubt

- http://www.khandro.net/deities_Tara1.htm

Tara's mantra is a loving play on her name. According to Sangharakshita, a traditional explanation of the mantra is that the variations of her name represent three progressive stages of salvation.

1.TARE means liberating from all discontent.  Tāre represents salvation from mundane dangers and suffering. Tara is seem as a savioress who can give aid from material threats such as floods, crime, wild animals, and traffic accidents.

2. TUTTARE means liberating from the eight fears, the external dangers, but mainly from the internal dangers, the delusions. Tuttāre represents deliverance into the spiritual path conceived in terms of individual salvation. In traditional terms, this is the path of the Arhant, which leads to individual liberation from suffering. This is seen in Mahayana Buddhism as a kind of enlightenment in which compassion does not figure strongly.

3. Lastly, ture represents the culmination of the spiritual path in terms of deliverance into the altruistic path of universal salvation - the Bodhisattva path. In the Bodhisattva path we aspire for personal enlightenment, but we also connect compassionately with the sufferings of others, and strive to liberate them at the same time as we seek enlightenment ourselves.
TURE means liberating from duality; it shows the true cessation of confusion.

4. SOHA means "may the meaning of the mantra take root in my mind."

According to Monier Monier-William's Sanskrit Dictionary Svaha, , means: "Hail!", "Hail to!" or "May a blessing rest on!" Her mantra can therefore be rendered as something like "OM! Hail to Tara (in her three roles as a savioress)!" although this may one of those occasions when the mantra is best left untranslated.

 

Below you find wonderful Pictures and the Story of  TARA told in a beautiful video :-)

 

 

TARA

 

From a tear drop of Avalokitesvara
You came to us -
Beautiful, tranquil, loving and kind,
Oh Tara,
In you I seek refuge.
We hide behind our masks
Of indifference or toughness,
We try hard to do the things
That gives us comfort;
We try to numb the pain
And to delay the time of death,
And yet some of us indulge
To hasten our own deaths.
We pretend that we can cope
When we are falling apart;
We avoid eye contact with each other
In fear of revealing our hearts.
Oh Tara,
In you I seek refuge.
We hide behind a façade of busyness;
Artists filling their canvases with paint,
Indignant activists fighting for change,
Designers showing off their latest creations
For those who live for trends,
Humanitarians desperately helping the desperate,
Not wasting a moment in just staying still;
Cruel dictators ordering soldiers to kill
Anyone that they regard as enemies;
Politicians prioritising popularity
Above their true conscience;
Confused and lost,
Some of us wander around
Hearing voices in our heads,
Some of us seek safety in our
Little worlds of self indulgence;
Collecting friends, admirers
Or inanimate objects.
Oh Tara,
In you I seek refuge.
How long do we have be like this?
How many lifetimes do we have to live
Before we find solace from this ocean of suffering?
Oh Tara,
In your loving smile
I seek refuge.

Feraya

From: http://burmadigest.info/2009/11/01/ho...

 

Tara appears in many colours and aspects.

On my search I also found this wonderful mantra which is dedicated to White Tara. It starts out with the same Om Tare Tuttare Ture .... but continues differently.

 

As i like this version a lot, I shall include it here:

 

 

White Tara

She is distinguished by "her body ... white, as an autumn moon; clear as a stainless crystal gem, radiating light. She has one face, two hands, three eyes. She is described in manuals as having "the youth of 16 years" but is often depicted as more full-bodied than Green Tara. Her right hand makes the gift-bestowing gesture, and with the thumb and ring finger of her left hand she holds a branch of white utpala, its petals on the level of her ear.

There are three flowers in various stages of growth symbolizing the three times (past, present and future.) The first bloom that is in seed, usually on the right, stands for Buddha Kashyapa who lived in a past eon; the second in first bloom stands for the historical Buddha Shakyamuni, whose activity has brought you here today, and the bud on the left symbolizes future buddhas -- the expected one is Maitreya Buddha.

Her hair is dark blue, bound up at the back of her neck at the back with long tresses hanging down; her breasts are full; she is adorned with divers precious ornaments, her blouse is of vari-colored silk, and her robes are of red silk, the palms of her hand and the soles of her feet each have an eye, making up the seven eyes of knowledge; she sits straight and firm upon the circle of the moon, her legs crossed in the diamond posture."

[This description (Beyer 379) from the beginning of her sadhana is included as characteristic of the details in texts used as a basis for tantric visualizations. We remind the reader that in a Buddhist sadhana, the practitioner is not really worshipping a goddess since the image is his or her own self imagined as a deity.]

White Tara is referred to as "Mother of all the Buddhas." This is because she embodies the motivation that is compassion. Her whiteness "Radiant as the eternal snows in all their glory" is indicative of the selflessness -- the purity -- of this compassion but especially the undifferentiated Truth of the Dharma.

Her seven eyes stand for her perception of suffering that is apparent (the two we normally have,) that is psychological/spiritual (the one in her forehead,) and that is inherent in activity (in her palms,) and in what is usually considered as progress (in her soles.)

The mantra for White Tara is

OM. TARE TUTARE TURE. MAMA AYUR PUNYE JNANA PUSHTIM KURU, SWAHA

Ohm, Tahray Tootahray tooray, mahmah ahyoor poonyay jnyana pushtim kuru[-ye], Swahhah

Tibetans say: OM TARE TUTTARE TURE, MAMA AYUR JANA PUNTIN KURU SOHA

Namo Amitabha!

 

[Myriel RAouine]

[Dr. SohiniBen Shukla]

[Myriel RAouine]

Thank you, dear SohiniBen  :-)

[Myriel RAouine]