The Awakening of Mahāvairocana 2.56

2.56

如來舌相真言曰：

The mantra of the Tathāgata’s tongue: Namaḥ samantabuddhānāṃ,

mahāmaha tathāgatajihva satyadharmapratiṣṭhita svāhā. (Homage to all

Buddhas! O great among the great! tongue of the Tathāgata! that which is

established in the true Dharma! svāhā!) [20]

Chapter III

The Quelling of Obstacles

Then Vajrapāṇi again questioned the World-honored One Vairocana, uttering these verses:

“When [preparing] the ritual site, how does one eliminate obstructors

So that they are unable to torment the mantra-cultivating practitioner?

How does one recite mantras? What results do they produce?”

When [Vajrapāṇi] had asked these questions, the Honored One

Mahāvairocana exclaimed,

“Excellent, Mahāsattva! You have done well to speak these words.

In keeping with the questions in your mind, I shall now reveal

everything.

Obstructors are born from one’s own mind in accordance with past

avarice.

In order to remove their cause, one thinks on the bodhi-mind,

Which is well removed of false differentiation born from the mind

and thought,

And by recollecting the bodhi-mind, the practitioner will be free

from faults.

One should always think in one’s mind of the mahāsattva Acala

And bind his mystic seal, whereby one will be able to remove all

obstructions.

Lord of Mysteries, listen further how to tie down turbulent wind.

With the letter A transformed into one’s own person, and keeping

the letter-gateway Ha in mind,

One smears gandha (unguent) on the ground to make [seven] great

dots of emptiness.

Positioning oneself in the direction of Vāyu (i.e., northwest), one

covers them with a śarāvam (bowl)

And thinks of this vessel as a great mental Mount Meru,

[Visualizing] on top of it time and again the letter A with a great dot

of emptiness (i.e., Aṃ):

Proclaimed by previous buddhas, this is able to arrest great winds.

Great Being, listen attentively to how the practitioner guards against

rain.

He imagines the letter-gateway Ra, very powerful and the color of

fiery light;

Fearsome, wreathed in blazing flames, wrathful, and holding a

khaḍga (sword),

He prepares the ground, creating [figures of] dark clouds in whatever

direction they have arisen,