The Cult of Tara

214 MAGIC AND RITUAL IN TIBET
After the introductory verse (the "praise with the basic mantra"),
the homages are recited twice; then follows a single recitation of the
following verses, considered to be part of the basic text, which set
forth the benefits of the recitation (the "benefit verses"):
Reverently recited by an intelligent man,
by one who has great devotion to the goddess,
arising at evening or at dawn to remember them,
they grant complete fearlessness,
they pacify all sins,
they destroy all evil destinies.
Quickly he will be initiated
by 70 million Buddhas;
attained the greatness thereof,
he will proceed to the rank of Buddhahood.
Even if he has eaten or drunk
a dreadful poison,
vegetable or animal,
by remembering them, it is completely dispelled;
he completely abandons the hosts of sufferings,
the afflictions of evil spirits, fevers, and poisons,
even for other beings as well.
If he recites them clearly, two, three, seven times,
by wishing for sons he will gain sons,
by wishing for wealth he will gain wealth,
he will gain all that he desires
and there is no hindrance that can resist him.
And all the monks visualize that the Blessed Lady is pleased with
these praises, and that she touches with her gift-bestowing gesture
the heads of them all, Master and diciples and those for whose sake
the ritual is being performed, granting them holiness.
2.2222.3 Arousing her heart with prayers
Finally, then, the monks "arouse the stream of her heart with
prayer," praying for their desires and requesting the magical attainments.
They fill their hands with the flowers before them and join
their palms, and "with a devoted and one-pointed mind" they
repeat the prayer made before to the Three Jewels in general (2.212),
except that this time, after the first paragraph (which ends "... I
pray you think of all of us !"), they insert the following lines:
Holy blessed noble Tara, with the hosts of fathers, mothers,
sons, neighbors, and retinue: I pray you think of all of us!