Timeless Rapture: Inspired Verse from the Shangpa Masters

The Shangpa Masters and Their Lineage 239
You gave twice-strained rice alcohol to a female adept.
This created a connection through faith
With a tantric practitioner in the forest; to you I pray.
Noble Virupa accepted you as his disciple
And gave you the full four empowerments into secret practice.
Instantly, your ripened karmic body of sixty-one years
Became that of a sixteen-year-old maiden; to you I pray.
Taking the inner path, you truly traversed in a single moment
The major vajra stages of awakening,
And you appeared in an uncontaminated, vajra rainbow body.
Powerful one of the celestial realms, to you I pray.
You became the manifest form of coemergent wisdom, Buddha
Selfless One,
To remain until the end of cyclic existence.
You watch over the three realms’ beings during the six periods of day
and night.
Honored female buddha, to you I pray.
You manifestly bless those who pray to you
And lovingly watch over your children who preserve your lineage,
never parting from them.
You bestow common and supreme accomplishment in a matter of
months or years.
Powerful one of great compassion, to you I pray.
Vajra Yogini, perfection of transcendent knowledge,
You appear to help beings in a body that has form.
The exquisite flower of your body, which one never tires of seeing,
Blooms with the marks and signs of physical perfection; to you I pray.
In the Teaching’s infinite gates, which have the nature of emptiness,
You speak according to beings’ dispositions.
Your speech, invincible sweet sound in every situation,
Flows imbued with the sixty tones of Brahma’s voice; to you I pray.