​ @3GemsBand  is honored to perform the ultimate protection mantra of Sitatapatra from Sutra, sung in original Sanskrit. Her mantra is considered the ultimate protection, whether chanted, written or just listened to. 🙏🙏🙏

🙏 Whether she is visualized in her form with 1000 arms and heads, or 2 arms, she is “Aparajita” which means “undefeatable one”. She emanated from the ushnisha of the Conqueror Shakyamuni Gautama Buddha, the ultimate aspect of Dharma Protection.  (Learn more about Sitatapatra here>>)

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Here, 3 Gems Band open properly, as with any Mahayana Practice, with Refuge in the Three jewels and an mandala offering to accumulate merit. We then chant her  mantra from Sutra, as well as the activity mantra from the Dharani. The medium mantra itself is

⚠️ CAUTION Even though mantras are effective with faith, always seek help when you are in trouble!

🙏 Oṃ sarva tathāgata uṣṇīṣa sitatapatra

Hūṃ phaṭ

Her heart mantra is

🙏 Hūṃ mama hūṃ ni svāhā

We follow this with the acitivity mantra from the longer Dharani:

🙏 Sarva vighnaṃ chindayāmi

Vajreṇa kīlayāmi

And, properly, we end with Bodhichitta dedication.  A full translation (in brackets) and lyrics is below.

🎵 LYRICS  (OR TURN ON SUB TITLES (Translation in Brackets)

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Refuge (Saraṇa) — Opening

Buddhaṃ saraṇaṃ gacchāmi

Dharmaṃ saraṇaṃ gacchāmi

Saṅghaṃ saraṇaṃ gacchāmi

Maṇḍala Verse — Short Offering

Oṃ āḥ hūṃ

Sarva maṇḍalaṃ samarpayāmi

(Oṃ āḥ hūṃ — I offer the entire maṇḍala.)

Mantra of Sitatapatra

Oṃ sarva tathāgata uṣṇīṣa sitatapatra

Hūṃ phaṭ

Hūṃ mama hūṃ ni svāhā

Hūṃ mama hūṃ ni svāhā

Hūṃ mama hūṃ ni svāhā

✨✨✨Activity Mantra

Sarva vighnaṃ chindayāmi

Vajreṇa kīlayāmi

(“I cut off all obstacles; I pin them down with the vajra.”)

Idaṃ me puṇyaṃ

Sarvopadravebhyaḥ

Sarvasattvānāṃ

Nirvāṇaprāptaye bhavatu

(“May this merit of mine be for the protection of all beings from all harms, and for their attainment of nirvāṇa.”)

✨ Description of Sitatapatra

Even her mantra is considered ultimate protection — often written on paper or carved in wood or metal and placed in front of doors or perimeters of property.

Her Sutra practice from the Śūraṅgama Sūtra and also the ārya tathāgatoṣṇīṣa sitātapatra dhāraṇī sūtra is for “healing illness, dispelling interferences and spirit possession, quelling disasters, and bringing auspiciousness.” according to the great teacher Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche.

⚠️ As a Sutra practice, no empowerments are required.

She can appear in any form as a beautiful white goddess bearing a protective parasol umbrella, or as ferocious as a towering deity with 1,000 heads, 1,000 arms, and countless all-seeing eyes!

Regardless of her emanation — 2 arms or 1000 — she always holds her vast protective Parasol, a symbol of impenetrable protection that emanated from the ushnisha of Shakyamuni Buddha. In Vajrayana she is considered a form of Mother Tara, the ultimate Protective Bodhisattva Goddess.