Timeless Rapture: Inspired Verse from the Shangpa Masters

232 Timeless Rapture
In a sublime city
Known as Incomparable in the Land of Jambu,
Emanated through Madhyantika’s blessing; to you I pray. 29
In the family circle
Of the pure Brahmin, Shantivarma,
Narotapa and you, the wisdom dakini, were brother and sister—
Your karma ripened together like sun and moon; to you I pray.
You are the feminine form of true emptiness,
Sublime among all appearances, giving birth to all victorious
buddhas.
Although you manifest in a worldly form,
You renounced any connection to existence through craving and
grasping; to you I pray.
During incalculable past lives, you reached the far shore
Of awakening’s paths and stages.
Thus, in this life, you gained the inconceivable, perfect freedom of
self-manifest accomplishment.
Innate dakini, to you I pray.
You did not have to rely on exhausting training—
When some advice from accomplished masters entered your ears,
You understood all teachings.
Great bliss of natural liberation, to you I pray.
Knowledge of one subject—the tantras’ subtle, profound meaning—
led to your total liberation
And the flowering of your two forms of knowledge.
You saw directly and without obscuration the truth of the nature of
reality.
Illustrious woman of accomplishment, to you I pray.
You bound your mind, eyes, and circulating energy within the
expanse of emptiness,
Permitting you to see in the central channel the [empty] forms
created by the spring vital essence.