Brief Introduction to Wrathful
Hayagriva
Hayagriva, Heruka.
(Tibetan: tam drin, drag tung. English:
Horse Neck)
Wrathful and fearsome, body radiant dark red,
with one face, with large round staring eyes and cavernous mouths with
sharp canine teeth, he has brown hair flowing upward and on top of the
head is a small green horse head roaring loudly to all directions. One
face, two hands, very wrathful form, and skullcup while embracing the consort
Secret mother, Vajra Yogini (or known as Vajra Varahi). |
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The right hand, holds a hook knife. Adorned
with a crown of five dry skulls, earrings, gold and jewel ornaments, a
necklace of heads and a tiger skin skirt, he is completely attired in wrathful
charnel ground vestments. The consort has one face and two hands, blue
in colour, holding a skullcup in the left. Adorned in wrathful attire she
wears a necklace of skulls and a leopard skin skirt. Standing with two
legs, the right bent and left straight, above two corpses atop a sun disc
and multi-coloured lotus Hayagriva and consort dwell surrounded by the
flames of pristine awareness.
As Hayagriva is the wrathful reflex of the
peaceful bodhisattva of compassion he stands roaring in a continence of
"tough love" amidst the flames of transcendental wisdom. |
DEDICATION
Dedicated
to the impeccable perpetuation of the glorious Kagyu lineage and to the
success
of its leaders and followers in accomplishing their commitment to
bring
all sentient beings to the state of enlightened awareness.
THE
FOUR LIMITLESS THOUGHTS
May all
mother sentient beings, boundless as the space, have happiness and the
causes of happiness.
May they
be liberated from suffering and the causes of suffering.
May they
never be separated from the happiness which is free from sorrow.
May they
rest in equanimity, free from attachment and aversion.
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