10.Sadhanas for Mother Goddess Tara

Sadhanas for Mother Goddess Tara

Tara sadhana and puja ( panchakshari)

Astra mantra - vajrodake hum phal

Moola mantra - Om hrim trim hum phal

Angas - Hram hrdayaya namah , hrim shirase swaha , hrum shikhaye vashal, hriyim
kavachaye hum , hraum nethraya vawshal, hah astraya phal.

Chandas and details - akshbhyah rishi , brahathi chandah , tara devata

Dhyana shloka - ( will not mention this)

Peedha shakthi - hrim namah

Peedha samashti - Om hrim pralaya'varishtitha'maha'shwetha'padmasanaya'namah

Peedha puja mantras - garwathipadmantam (21 mantras) , medhathi (9) , navashakthi and mandalathraya (9) , atmachathustas (om hrim jnanatmane namah ), peedhasamisti with 38 mantras do beginning to end water worship.

Devatha kalpan - Om hrim namah , Om hrim trim hum phal namah tara'murthaye namah

Upachara - Om hrim om namah

Avahana - the devatha should be symbolically invoked on the stana or peedha. based on the instruction of the guru, using the articles like chandan , flowers etc with three OM , one should absorb the jeevachaitanya.
This is done as follows : with the first pranava you symbolically take that from the total chaithanya thats present, a portion has been separated, with the second pranava, you do a sankalpa as absorbing that small portion and with the third pranava or OM, you do a sankalpa as this chaintanya has risen in the subtle realms within).

Now one has to have the sankalpa at hridaya and do two pranava (recital sankalpa omitted) and with the name of the deity; (tara here), recite 'aagacha, aagacha om avahayami) and bring it downwards from the mooladhara, then to the right a little, move a little up and then reach out and hold the left nostril, breath in through the right, with the pranava, submit and associate conceptually a flower in the hridaya bhaga of the stana of devatha.

Let me continue with the remaining of the tara ma ritual
Ayudha nyasa - khadgaya namah , kapalaya namah , neelapadmaya namah (2)

Bhushana nyasa - keyuraya namah , ardhachandraya namah, makudaya namaha, sarpaharaya namah, sarpakundalaphyam namah, charmambaraya namah, sarpam'gadebhyo namah , sarpakankanebhyo namah, sarpakadakebhyo namah, sarpakancheye namah, sarpanoopurabhyam namah.

Upahara - Om vajrodake hum phal arrkyamidam hrim swaha padyamidam . Om hrim suvishuddhadharma sarwapapanisamyasheshavikalpanavanaya swaha achamaneeyamidam.

Devatha pooja - pranavathrya, upachara , moolathraya , moolaakshara, anga , ayudha, bhushana , and then from the bindu , from east to all four directions and to the front then the following
1) gum ganapataye namah
2) vaam vadukabhairavaya namah
3) ksham kshetrapaalaya namah
4) yaam yoginyai namah
5) Om akshebyo vajrapushpam praticha swaha namah on shadkone with angavarana with ashtadala that too above all with 4 directions from east
1) Om vaim vairochana vajrapushpam praticha swaha namah
2) Om Am amithabha vajrapushpam praticha swaha namah
3) Om pam padmanabha vajrapushpam praticha swaha namah
4) Om shakhapandura vajrapushpam praticha swaha namah ,

on the agni direction (kone)
1) Om laam lamake vajrapushpam praticha swaha namah,
2) Om maam mamake vajrapushpam praticha swaha namah
3) Om paam pandure vajrapushpam praticha swaha namah
4) Om tam tarake vajrapushpam praticha swaha namah ,

and on bhupura four directions
1) padmandakaya namah
2) yamandakaya namah
3) narandakaya namah and on the top of it indradi (10 mantras) , vajradi (10) matheye namah (nirmalyadhari) , with all these mantras , do from beginning to end , jalasadhana.

dear all I will provide you a common mantra's like indradi etc as glossary when all rituals are explained.

Dwadastas and naivedya -
1) aim sundarye namah klim sumukheye namah and do the naivedya. during naivedya one has to do the naivedyapranahuthi followed by a moola of devatha , perform a manasapooja , followed by a moola and offering of a flower , then the astra mantra to protect the naivdeya and the devatha and then again a moola with offering of one flower , doing a nyasa of the particular chandas , 8 times reciting the moola and then the chandas. (simplified :)))

simplified : - I am not mentioning the details of how this has to be done at a temple of Tara ma and it has more steps to perform to fulfill the pooja . :))

This pooja emphasis on a offering of bali for the closure. The process is as follows

Place akshatha in the front with kurum grass , with the jalagandhapuspha arprana and then with the dhoopa deepa mudra , drop thrice on. the mantra for that is "Om hrim shrim'maadekajade neelasaraswathi maho'ugra'taare devi kha kha sarwabhootapisacha'rakshaan grasa grasa mama jaddyam cchedaya cchedaya shrim phrim phal swaha '

iti tara panchakshari pooja samaptham |