This excerpt from a lecture by Elizabeth Clare Prophet was delivered May 20, 1989, at the Whole Health Expo at the New York City and published in the 1989 Pearls of Wisdom Vol. 32 No. 28.
Wesak is the wondrous day when Buddhists the world over gather for the celebration of the Buddha’s birth, his enlightenment, and his parinirvana. It occurs at the full moon during the month of the Indian lunar calendar called Vesak, or Wesak. Since the Indian calendar is based on lunar cycles, the full moon day of Wesak can be in April or May of the Western calendar.
Buddhists celebrate Wesak, the most important festival in the Buddhist world, by meditating on the life and teachings of Lord Gautama, reciting scriptures, fasting, distributing food and money to the monks and the poor, and processioning around Buddhist temples and holy places. Most importantly, the day serves as a reminder that like the Compassionate One, they, too, must attain enlightenment.
According to esoteric tradition, on Wesak a huge company of pilgrims and disciples gathers in a valley in the Himalayas to meditate, attune with, and receive the benediction of Lord Gautama. Some say that the Buddha is seen physically by certain adepts and devotees as he brings his blessings to the earth.
As we are not able to journey in our bodies to that valley and since we cannot all receive his words directly, I am sent as the Messenger of the Ascended Masters–he being one of the Ascended Masters–to deliver his dictation to you. So we will hear Lord Gautama’s Wesak address delivered today.1 Whether it is simultaneous or not is of no consequence since that message is recorded in his causal body and can be received as a direct transmission, through his Electronic Presence overshadowing us, at the conclusion of our meditation.
Our goal this afternoon is to raise our consciousness, to increase the light within our body temple so that we may rise, as though our souls would rise to greet him in the air.
And so for this purpose we devote ourselves to the clearing of the chakras and the raising up of the sacred fire on the spinal altar followed by an overview of the life and teachings of the Buddha.
Mantras for the Celebration of the Buddha and the Mother
In order to greet the Buddha who resides in the secret chamber of the heart, whose chakra is the thousand-petaled lotus of the crown, we desire to raise the sacred fire of the Divine Mother (the Kundalini) from the base chakra of the Mother to the crown chakra of the Buddha.
And so it is the Divine Mother within us, and our souls’ oneness with the Divine Mother in adoration of the Buddha, that causes the light to rise from the base. The Mother is in love with Buddha. The Buddha is in love with Mother. And the Lord Buddha (Yang) draws our Mother to that crown. And our Mother (Yin) is rising to greet her Lord. This is the plus/minus polarity of Alpha and Omega that we would experience in our body temple.
This is the purpose of our giving these Buddhist mantras. It is an exercise in the science of the spoken Word–that Word who in the beginning was with Brahman: without whom “was not anything made that was made.”
I would ask you to center your attention in your heart and to realize that it is the flame of your heart that allows you to participate in the ritual of the union of the Father-Mother God in your chakras. Once the Mother reaches the crown chakra she, escorted by her Lord, descends to the secret chamber of the heart where they give birth to the Inner Buddha.
And so let us begin with the sounding of the Om. I wish you all a happy, happy Wesak in the sounding of the Om!
Om
Om Mani Padme Hum
Om! The jewel in the lotus, Hum! or Hail to the jewel in the lotus!
Om Ah Hum Vajra Guru Padma Siddhi Hum
Om Ah Hum! Vajra Guru, who arose from a lotus [Padma Sambhava], please grant me the ordinary and supreme accomplishments, Hum!
Om Amarani Jivantiye Svaha
Om! May immortal life be vouchsafed! So be it!
Gate Gate Paragate Parasamgate Bodhi Svaha
Gone, gone, gone beyond, gone wholly beyond–Enlightenment, hail! (or Awakening fulfilled!)
Om Wagi Shori Mum
Om! Lord of Speech, Mum! or Hail to the Lord of Speech! Mum!
Tatyata Om Muni Muni Maha Muni Shakyamuniye Svaha
Hail to the sage, the great sage, the sage of the Shakya clan (Gautama Buddha)! or Honor to him, the Enlightened One!
Om Mani Padme Hum Hri
Om! The jewel in the lotus, Hum! Hri! or Hail to the jewel in the lotus! Hri!
Om Ah Ra Pa Tsa Na Dhih
(Manjushri’s mantra for developing wisdom)
Om Tare Tuttare Ture Svaha
Hail to Tara! or Hail to the liberator from samsara, the liberator from the eight fears, the liberator from disease!
Om Vajrasattva Hum
Om! Vajrasattva, Hum! (Vajrasattva is a Buddha whose name means “diamond being,” “the indestructible-minded one,” or “one whose essence is as lightning”)
You Send God Devotion, He Sends You Light
Hymns and mantras are a means of sending devotion to God and his angels and saints. True devotion is a tangible current of Divine Love sent from your heart to God’s heart. Your heart chakra, through the divine spark anchored there, is the foundation of your meditation and the fount of Power, Wisdom and Love whereby you direct your devotion, gratitude and praise to the heavenly hosts.
Thus you create a cord of love which ties you not only to God but to each one through whose Electronic Presence you would pray to God, whether it be Mother Mary or Kuan Yin, Lord Krishna or Jesus or Gautama or Confucius or Lao-tzu.
Your meditations upon God, the Infinite One, actually create this crystal cord of light. Thus you open the way for God to send you on the return current a magnanimous reinforcement and multiplication of the light you first sent to him.
Thus the Son of man-ifestation proposes through creative communion and God disposes according to the quality and qualification of his Son’s communication. And thereby your chakras become filled with light and balanced. For you provide the Omega which then magnetizes the Alpha.
1. The dictation by Gautama Buddha that followed this lecture is published in Pearls of Wisdom Vol. 32 No. 29
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