The Cult of Tara

WORSHIP 157
8) May there be all good fortune
by offering this holy object of good fortune
(which sets the seal of delight on the heart of the most noble)
by this ravishing maiden,
pleasing as a peacock's neck, her carriage haughty,
flasking like lightening a& she holds the golden fish.
OM KANAKA-MATSYA PRATlCCHA SVAHA 1
Next, in many rituals there are presented to the deity the inner
offerings*** which most often consist of the five sense gratifications:
1) VAJRA-RUPA "Diamond Forms"
2) VAJRA-SABDA "Diamond Sounds"
3) VAJRA-GANDHA "Diamond Smells"
4) VAJRA-RASYA "Diamond Tastes"
5) VAJRA-SPARSA "Diamond Tangibles"
As it says in the Guhgasamaja Tantra: 21
*
One should make proper offerings to the Buddhas
continually with the five sense gratifications:
and by this fivefold offering
one will quickly attain to Buddhahood.
Thus these five inner offerings might be presented, for example,
with the following verses: 213
1) The most excellent of forms
in all the worldly realms of the ten directions
(all that pleases the sight of the Conquerors)
are emanated as hosts of the Lady Diamond Form;
and these we offer up to the hosts of glorious gurus.
OM GURU-MANDALA-DEVATA VAJRA-RUPA PRATlCCHA
HUM SVAHA 1
2) The most excellent of sounds
in all the worldly realms of the ten directions
(all that is melodious to the hearing of the Conquerors)
are emanated as hosts of the Lady Diamond Sound;
and these we offer up to the hosts of glorious gurus.
OM GURU-MANDALA-DEVATA VAJRA-SABDA PRATl­
CCHA HUM SVAHA!