Timeless Rapture: Inspired Verse from the Shangpa Masters

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In particular, master Manjushri-mitra
Gave you the discourses’ and tantras’ secret treasury.
He blessed you as enlightenment’s wisdom body inseparable from
him,
Fully awakening your wisdom’s realization; to you I pray.
The very loving uncle and nephew, along with their [Sakya] lineage,
Bestowed empowerment and entrusted you with their tantras.
Many other learned and accomplished masters from India and Tibet
repeatedly taught you
In waking life, dreams, and meditative experience; to you I pray.
When you entered Matrix of Mystery’s configuration, the sublime
teacher So gave you the wisdom empowerment,
Purifying your residual psychophysical aggregates and sense elements
with its power;
You were transformed into Vajrasattva’s three mysteries;
Supreme master of all families of enlightenment, to you I pray.
The victors’ mother, Vajra Queen, accepted you as her disciple
And appearing existence arose as the circle of infinite purity.
You clearly saw your vajra body’s sacred configuration.
Supreme son of accomplishment, to you I pray.
You gathered with outer, inner, and secret dakinis;
The three blazing fires’ wisdom greatly increased.
You perfected auspicious connections with the three forms of
conduct.
Master of tantric adepts, to you I pray.
Your karmic connections from many past lifetimes awakened—
A million rivers of rare volumes of the discourses’ and tantras’
canonical transmission,
Sublime sacred supports, and sacred substances
Swirled into the seas of your life of freedom; to you I pray.
You were endowed with the Six Lineages, 59
Treasures discovered in the earth, the mind, pure vision, an aural