Prayers and Mantras for Success

This mantra of the bodhisattva Akashagarbha [Tib: Nam mkha'i snying po; Essence of the Sky] has unbelievable benefits. Not only can you recite the mantra, you can also wear it.

You can wear it all the time except when you go to sleep at night as it might go under your arms or shoulders, and negative karma will be created if the mantra goes under your body. Otherwise, you may wear it all the time, and especially when you are going to speak to someone or request something, or when success is particularly important. 

Of course, without meditating, just wearing the mantra to achieve extensive realizations and enlightenment, it doesn’t happen. From your own side, you have to have good karma. Good karma for success is like a big fund. Good karma, or merit, is like the seed for the crops, and the mantra is like the water and soil. If the good karma is there, the mantra helps it to be ripened quickly. [Then] by merely wearing this mantra, reciting it daily, and revealing it to others, all your wishes and hopes are fulfilled. It is especially good for anyone who needs to see people such as a neighbor or a government person [with whom there is difficulty], to recite this mantra.

Once there was a problem when a center bought a new house and they made an outside deck right up against the neighbor’s bedroom window. People could see into the window, thus affecting the neighbor’s privacy. Understandably, she didn’t like it. She complained to the government, who then came to check the situation and told the center to change the whole thing. I sent this mantra for all the staff at the center who were going to the government office to wear for their success. Afterwards, they had to change [only] some things.

One student also used this mantra for her business activities. She had a secretary who was always shouting and criticizing. On that day that the student asked her to hold this mantra in her hand, the secretary, instead of being angry and fighting or criticizing, completely changed. She was gentle and more respectful, totally different. It was a big surprise for them.

Reciting the Mantra

OM SVASTI KAMALAKSI VIPULA SAMBHAVA / DHARMADHATU GOCARA SVAHA

Wearing the Mantra

If you want to wear the mantra, print or copy it and then [consecrate it by] reciting the Heart Mantra of Dependent Relation three or more times, starting it with NAMO RATNA TRAYAYA as follows:

NAMO RATNA TRAYAYA / OM YE DHARMA HETU PRABHAVA HETUN TEṢAN TATHAGATO HYAVADAT / TESAN CA YO NIRODHA EVAM VADI MAHASRAMANAYE SVAHA

Think that all the wisdom of the buddhas and bodhisattvas is absorbed into this mantra; visualize this very strongly [as you recite].

[Links to a PDF file of this practice can be found in the FPMT Catalogue.]

Colophon: Advice given on two separate occasions by Lama Zopa Rinpoche and scribed by Ven. Holly Ansett and Elaine Moore. Compiled and edited by Ven. Gyalten Mindrol, FPMT Education Services, June 2010. Revised by Ven. Tenzin Tsomo; edited by Doris Low and Heather Fox, FPMT Education Services, July 2022. 

Note: According to Lama Zopa Rinpoche, when reciting the Heart Mantra of Dependent Relation, you must pause at “CA YO,” otherwise the meaning of the mantra is changed.

• If you wear this protection, you cannot be controlled by others.
• It brings victory over wars, disputes, fighting, danger, over everything. One has no fear.
• It can be used for prayer flags and also as a personal protection.
• It brings victory over obstacles and enemies.

Dear Tony,
My advice is to do various practices to facilitate the work to benefit others. These include:

Medicine Buddha Practice
This practice can be done for any sorts of problems, for success in projects, etc. The motivation for doing the practice is twofold:

1. for others to be able to receive the benefit
2. for one’s wishes to succeed.

I recommend performing the short or middle-length practice. In the short sadhana, the recitations are to be performed seven times. This is important. The visualization involves the other Sugatas dissolving into the last Medicine Buddha, and then you recite the mantras. At the end of the practice, dedicate it for whatever you have prayed for in the past to succeed, and for whatever you are praying for now for yourself and sentient beings to succeed immediately.

Most Secret Hayagriva Practice
For some of your projects to succeed, you need the power of controlling others (for the purpose of getting them to listen to you and obey you). I suggest you pray to Hayagriva for this. While the purpose of the Medicine Buddha practice is for general success, this practice is specifically for controlling specific purposes. Examples of how to use this practice are making prayers to Hayagriva and chanting a mala of the mantra before going to meetings. First, you generate as the deity, then visualize all the buddhas in the form of Hayagriva dissolving into you. At this time, generate the strong feeling of having received omniscience; great compassion for all sentient beings; perfect power to work for all sentient beings; and the power of control over others – for everyone to be under your control immediately in order to benefit the work for all sentient beings. Then others will like you a lot and agree with what you say.

You can meditate in different ways to control others. One is so that others think only of you; the second is to purify others first, and then bring them into your body; the third is receiving the perfect power of the deity for having the power of control. The third method is the most important. You should do this one the most.

Make strong prayers to Hayagriva when you have crucial meetings or are working on important projects. You can also recite the torma offering prayer to Hayagriva. You can do this the day before an important event and dedicate it to the success of the meeting or project. There are also praises to Hayagriva, and requests to overcome obstacles that you can recite.

You can also recite different mantras for success. You should do the Blessing of Speech in the morning. This will give power to your speech. Also, doing this practice will increase recitations of mantras by 10 million times. Even chatting becomes a recitation of mantras.

You can also recite the Mantra for All Success seven times a day:

TADYATHA NAKSHEDE SAPHA DITTHI MUTENA SHATRANI MESA MITA DAHNI BAHPHENTU SVAHA

Regarding your question about not being able to perform meditation commitments due to your busy schedule, when I asked His Holiness the Dalai Lama about this issue he said the following: The purpose of meditation practice and prayers is to benefit others. If one’s work is to benefit others, and because of that there is difficulty performing commitments, then there is no need for regret. One’s meditation commitments are, after all, also for the benefit of others. However, if commitments are not done for no reason or because of laziness, the loss is to yourself.

Regarding your questions about Guhyasamaja practice, even if you are not performing it properly, it seems that the special nature of the practice results in a sense of calmness and peacefulness.

Regarding retreat, you should do the enabling action retreat first. Perhaps you can do the elaborate Guhyasamaja practice later on in your life, eg after retirement, when there will be more time.

Regarding your questions about tsog offering, this can be performed anywhere, eg at home, over lunch. Small amounts of meat and alcohol are readily available, even on airplanes. Bless the inner offering and offer oceans of nectar to: direct and indirect gurus, deities, sutra buddhas, arhats, and Dharma protectors. Generate incredible bliss while you make the offerings. Reciting 21 “OM AH HUMs” would be very powerful for purifying degenerate samaya. The most important thing here is the meditation on generating countless oceans of nectar and generating great bliss and emptiness.

Regarding your questions about what attitude to have if one hears criticism of one’s guru, once a connection has been made, it is critical not to lose faith or devotion to one’s guru, otherwise this would result in creating the heaviest negative karma. There would also be no possibility of generating realizations.

For example, Garchen Geshe Kyaltsen left out his ga-ka teacher from the merit field. This teacher had disrobed, stolen things, and apparently was a terrible person. However, because Geshe Kyaltsen let him out of the merit field, he was unable to generate lamrim realizations despite meditating for a very long time. Then, he was advised to make this teacher the central figure of the merit field. After doing this, realizations came.

Whatever a teacher does or does not do, it is the disciple’s responsibility to cultivate and maintain proper devotion. A disciple should close his ears, even if the whole world criticizes one’s guru. In this case, the disciple should stay in his or her own world. If he does so, he will profit from this, will develop stable faith, have all realizations, and achieve Buddha’s holy body, speech, and mind.

If the disciple remembers that the main goal of his life is to liberate sentient beings from samsara, then, for that purpose, he should follow whatever method will facilitate achieving that, no matter what others say. If one wants to help other sentient beings, then the practice of guru devotion will be your practice, because this is the means. Moreover, it is impossible never to experience criticism of holy beings. Even at the time of the Buddha, the Buddha was criticized by Hindus for drinking milk. Even His Holiness the Dalai Lama is criticized by others.

Please read and recite the Nine Attitudes of Guru Devotion that I have translated. Every time you have such problems, in my experience, they will disappear after reading those verses.

1) NAMO DHARMAKAYA SAMBOKAYA NIRMAKAYA, TATHAGATA, DHANA PARAMITA, SHILA PARAMITA, KANTI PARAMITA, BRIYA PARAMITA, DHANA PARAMITA, PRANYA PARAMITA, SARVA DHARMA SHUNYATA SVAHA. (six times daily)

2 ) NAMO HURRI DHIYE HURRI DHI KUMARI GOURI GANDARI CHANDRARI MATAMKI KALI KALI MOHEHI KHARA KHARA PACHA PACHA AWADAYE MURCHAYA MASHAMANAYA SVAHA OM BURU BUA ZUOAH ZUOAH ZUALI MANANI DEWI SARBA SAMSKARA KARINEZA TALE TALE ZUOAH ZUOAH SVAHA.

3) Ganapati Mantra:
OM AH GA HUM PAT SVAHA

This is the practice to pacify the shortcomings of time, date, star, and so forth, and to accomplish success. Remember the buddhas and bodhisattvas who are in the direction where you are going. Put your palms together and recite:

I prostrate to the three rare sublime ones (Buddha, Dharma, Sangha).
I prostrate to the tathagata, enemy-destroyer, the owner of the date, star, moment.

TA YA THA / NAGA DRE / NAGAPATI / SARVA TITI MUHURTATI / NAGA DRA NAMA SADUNTE NI BAWENTU SOHA

Recite this three times, then all your works will succeed.

Action Mantra for Completion of Success

I prostrate to the Three Precious Sublimes
I prostrate to the Buddha
I prostrate to the Dharma
I prostrate to the Sangha

NAMO HARI DIYEH
HARI DIYAH KUMARI
GOHRI GYENDAWARI
CHENDALI MATANGHI
KALEH KALEH,
MORHAY HI
KARA KARA, PARTSA PARTSA
ABADAYA, MUCHAYA
MARSHARMA NARYAJ SVAHA

OM BOORA BOOPAH
JWALAH JWALAH JWALI
MANA NI TAY PEE
SABAR SAMSKARA
KARAY NIJAR
TALAY TALAY
JWALAH SVAHA

Merely by reading this all actions will be successful. Brain sicknesses (headaches), heavy contagious diseases, zombies, and all spirit possessions will be defeated. Merely by remembering this mantra, all of them will let go and will let you go. If you are hungry, you can go into town, recite this seven times, blow on your hand, then wipe your face, and you will find food.

You can recite it over water or face cream and then wash your face with the water or put the cream on your face. If you do this recitation, you will be able to answer when there is an argument, eg when others are talking about your mistakes. If you chant this mantra on flowers or fruit, then whoever you give these to, that person will like you.

Here the mantra of the completion action is completed.