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For centuries, devotees of Padma Sambhava have received blessings by invoking his mantra, '''Om Ah Hum Vajra Guru Padma Siddhi Hum'''. It means: “Padma Sambhava, who arose from a lotus, please grant me the ordinary and supreme accomplishments, HUM!” (A “Vajra Guru” is a being who has fully mastered the path of Vajrayana.) | For centuries, devotees of Padma Sambhava have received blessings by invoking his mantra, '''Om Ah Hum Vajra Guru Padma Siddhi Hum'''. It means: “Padma Sambhava, who arose from a lotus, please grant me the ordinary and supreme accomplishments, HUM!” (A “Vajra Guru” is a being who has fully mastered the path of Vajrayana.) | ||
Padma Sambhava instructed his disciple Yeshe Tsogyal that his mantra should be used to avert the evils of a coming period of great darkness. His devotees have invoked this mantra to create peace and harmony and to antidote the confusion and turmoil of this Dark Age. It is a mantra for the era in which we live, a time of the planetary return of karma. | Padma Sambhava instructed his disciple [[Yeshe Tsogyal]] that his mantra should be used to avert the evils of a coming period of great darkness. His devotees have invoked this mantra to create peace and harmony and to antidote the confusion and turmoil of this Dark Age. It is a mantra for the era in which we live, a time of the planetary return of karma. | ||
Lord Maitreya has urged us to let Padma Sambhava’s mantra ring in our soul and our heart: | Lord Maitreya has urged us to let Padma Sambhava’s mantra ring in our soul and our heart: | ||
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<blockquote>There is more to the discipline of being a Christian than crying, “Lord, Lord.” You must be able to continually keep the flame of your emergent Christhood and to live according to God’s will.... Call to me so that you might be made whole at all levels of your being so that in that wholeness you might sit at your Lord’s feet and neither offend him nor be offended by him.<ref>Padma Sambhava, “God Is Just: All Will Receive Their Just Reward,” {{POWref|38|36|, August 20, 1995}}</ref></blockquote> | <blockquote>There is more to the discipline of being a Christian than crying, “Lord, Lord.” You must be able to continually keep the flame of your emergent Christhood and to live according to God’s will.... Call to me so that you might be made whole at all levels of your being so that in that wholeness you might sit at your Lord’s feet and neither offend him nor be offended by him.<ref>Padma Sambhava, “God Is Just: All Will Receive Their Just Reward,” {{POWref|38|36|, August 20, 1995}}</ref></blockquote> | ||
== See also == | |||
[[Yeshe Tsogyal]] | |||
[[Tertön]] | |||
== Sources == | == Sources == | ||