The Cult of Tara

166 MAGIC AND RITUAL IN TIBET
which causes the Fathers and Mothers of the five families,
conditions the five bodies and five knowledges,
occasions the arising of Means and Wisdom from their cause:
this we offer up to the all-beneficent guru
and his hosts of peaceful and fierce deities.
Think of us lovingly with compassion,
grant us power and magical attainment!
OM AH HUM ! SARVA-PASlCA-AMRTA-KHARAM KHAHI1
Eat, eat all these five nectars 1
OM AH HUM ! To the mouths of
the gurus of the fivefold lineage,
the gathering of the Three Jewels of the Conquerors,
the hundred families of holy ones, peaceful and fierce,
the holders of the mantra, dakas and dakinis, Father and
Mother,
the hosts of the dakinis, highest of mothers,
the divine hosts of Diamond Magic Dagger:
SARVA-PANCA-AMRTA-KHARAM KHAHI! Eat, eat all these
five nectars!
To the mouths of
the Three Jewels and Three Basic Ones
of all directions and times,
protectors of the Law, deities of wealth,
lords of hidden treasure:
SARVA-PAftCA-AMRTA-KHARAM KHAHI! Eat, eat all these
five nectars!
To the mouths of
all the others, the ocean of those worthy of offerings:
SARVA-PANCA-AMRTA-KHARAM KHAHI! Eat, eat all these
five nectars!
Accepting the magical attainments:
HUM! The stream of nectar from the union
of the Fathers and Mothers of the five families
in the skull bowl of this realm of the manifest,