The Cult of Tara

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The rituals of the high monastic cult differ from those of Tara in
another fundamental way: the high patron deity who is the "chief
of the mandala"—called generically the "Heruka" of the ritual, or
its "Bearer of the Vajra"—may be generated twice, in a causal
form and in a resultant form. (In the cycles of the Father Tantras
the causal deity is often called the "Vajrasattva" and the resultant
deity the "Body of Transformation".) Thus, in the evocation above,
the Cakrasamvara produced through the five realizations is the
causal Heruka, colored wh-'te. The generation continues:
On a moon at the tops of the heads of both Father and Mother
is OM, and on a sun at their throats and hearts are AH and HUM.
At the break of their waists is SVA, on their sexual organs is AH,
and between their thighs is HA.
In the "secret place" of the Father there comes from HUM a
white vajra, from BAM a red gem [at its tip], and the hole is
blocked by a yellow PHAT. In the "place of space" of the Mother
there comes from AH a red lotus, from OM its white anthers, and
the hole is blocked by a yellow PHAT.
By the sound of the Bliss of the union of the Father and Mother
and by the light from their hearts, there are invited both those
whose accomplishment of deity is innate and those beings who
had been cleansed into the mandala of Cakrasamvara. Entering
into union in the sky before me, they all melt into Great Bliss and
enter through my mouth; descending the central channel, they
pass through the vajra and gem, and fall and mix into the anthers
of the Mother. The Father and Mother dissolve into a ball of
Bliss which is as if in the form of quicksilver.
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the Great Bliss of the retinue takes the
form of a "syllable of ftarrfo-awareness"—either HUM or OM AH
HUM—which, again, enters into the Father and passes through his
vajra-penis and into the lotus-vagina of the Mother, to be placed
between two syllables HOH before the deities dissolve; but in any
event this "melted deity"—this "ball of Bliss"—is "aroused with
song" to create the resultant Heruka, colored blue:
All the Buddhas of the ten directions arouse [the melted deity]
with the song OM MAHASUKHAM VAJRASATTVA J AH HUM
BAM HOH SURAS TVAM DRSYA HOH ! "OM GreatBIiss, Vajrasattva
JAH HUM BAM HOH I You are the deity: become visible
HOH !"—and instantaneously it becomes the Blessed Glorious
Cakrasamvara, his body colored blue.
And then, after the resultant Heruka is generated, the retinue of the
mandala is contemplatively created in the same way: