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Offering the Gektor

Torma Offering to the Interferers

Translated by Lama Zopa Rinpoche


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Offering the Gektor


Torma offering to the interferers

Blessing the torma


Dispel interferences with:

OM KHANDAROHI HUM HUM PHAT (2x)

With the first recitation, sprinkle the tormas with action vase water.

With the second recitation, sprinkle with inner offering.

Purify into emptiness with:

OM SVABHAVA SHUDDHA SARVA DHARMA SVABHAVA


SHUDDHO HAM

From the sphere of emptiness the letter BHRUM becomes a vast


and expansive jeweled vessel, inside of which the syllable OM
melts and becomes a great ocean of uncontaminated exalted
wisdom nectar.

OM AH HUM (3x)

While reciting the passage below, the assistant to the rite lights
the three butter lamps that are standing at the base of the gektor,
while the practitioner puts frankincense on the charcoal.
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From the HUM at my heart, rays of light are emitted and hook all
the assembly of the interferers that are obstacles for oneself to
accomplish this profound retreat. They hook and invite them as
guests for whom this torma is to be offered.

The practitioner picks up the plate of the gektor in such a way


that the lights face towards him/her. The plate is held in the
right hand and rotated clockwise until one says, “SVAHA”. At
“SVAHA,” switch the plate to the left hand and snap the fingers
of the right hand. Do this three times while reciting the mantra:

OM SARVA BIHANA / NAMAH SARVA TATHAGATA BHYO /


VISHVA MUKHE BHYO / SARVA TAD KHAMUDGATE /
SAPARANA IMAM GAGANA KHAM / GRIHANA IDAM
BALIMTAYE SVAHA
(3x while rotating the torma three times clockwise)

Now turn the plate so that the lights are facing out. The right hand
holds the plate in a threatening gesture (with forefinger and pinky
finger extended upwards) and rotates the plate counterclockwise
while reciting the mantra below. At the same time, the left hand,
also in the threatening gesture rings the bell. Recite the mantra in
a voice that is halfway between mild and fierce.

OM SUMBHA NI SUMBHA HUM HUM PHAT


OM GRIHNA GRIHNA HUM HUM PHAT
OM GRIHNA PAYA GRIHNA PAYA HUM HUM PHAT
OM ANAYA HO BHAGAVAN VAJRA HUM HUM PHAT
(3x while rotating the torma three times counterclockwise)
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At the completion of this, give the torma to the assistant who


takes both the incense burner and the gektor to the doorway.
He remains facing outwards. The practitioner – his hands back
to back, little fingers interlocked, right hand nearer to the heart,
and holding vajra and bell – makes the annunciation of truth:

“Hark! By the strength of the truth of all holy teachers, such as


the noble root and lineage teachers; by the truth of the sravakas,
pratyekabuddhas, dharmapalas, and guardians; and especially by
the truth of the deities of this mandala: May the evil spirits and
interferences who would hinder this retreat be satiated by this
torma and return to their own abodes. O harmful ones, do not
doubt that if you do not go, the blazing fires of this wrathful wis-
dom vajra will smash your heads into a hundred pieces. Depart,
for this is an annunciation of truth.”

The practitioner now thrice speaks the mantra fiercely while


ringing the bell and throwing first rice and then mustard seeds.
The assistant at this time gives the gektor one more turn to the
left and takes it away outside while carrying the incense burner.

OM SUMBHA NI SUMBHA HUM HUM PHAT


OM GRIHNA GRIHNA HUM HUM PHAT
OM GRIHNA PAYA GRIHNA PAYA HUM HUM PHAT
OM ANAYA HO BHAGAVAN VAJRA HUM HUM PHAT
(3x fiercely)

Returning with the incense burner and empty plate, the assis-
tant fumigates the room well while the practitioner continues
to recite the action mantra in an intense and wrathful way while
ringing the bell and playing the damaru while meditating on the
fact that all hindrances have been removed:

OM KHANDAROHI HUM HUM PHAT (as many times as


necessary)
Colophon:
This Gektor offering practice was extracted from a compilation for commenc-
ing retreat, compiled from: Becoming Vajrasattva by Lama Yeshe; Retreat
Procedures (from the works of Ngülchu Dharmabhadra and Pabongka Dechen
Nyingpo) translated by Glenn Mullin; and Retreat Preliminary Instructions for
Vajrayogini put together by Jampa Tenzin Trinlay Gyatso, translated by Lama
Zopa Rinpoche and written down by Ven. Holly Ansett January 1997–February
1998.
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