Green Tara mantra: Oṃ Tāre Tuttāre Ture Svāhā

What is (Om Tare Tuttare Ture Svaha) ?

In Tibet, om tare tuttare ture soha is an ancient mantra associated with Tara, “Mother of all Buddhas,” and especially her manifestation as Green Tara. In this article you will learn who Green Tara is, the meaning of her mantra, and how to pronounce it in Tibetan.

Tara, whose name means “star” or “passerby,” is a bodhisattva of compassion. In Tibetan, Tara is called “Dölma” (Sgrol-ma) or “She of Salvation”. In particular, she represents compassion in action, as she is leaving her lotus seat to help sentient beings.

Who is Green Tara?

As we see in the image above, Green Tara is usually depicted as a compassionate being ready to step down from her lotus throne to offer comfort and protection from all the sufferings we experience.

She is shown “in a posture of ease and readiness for action. While her left leg is folded in the contemplative position, her right leg is outstretched, ready to spring into action. Green Tara’s left hand is in the refuge-granting mudra (gesture), and her right-hand makes the boon-granting [giving] gesture. In her hands she also holds closed blue lotuses (utpalas), which symbolize purity and power.” ²

As the first Dalai Lama wrote, We can ask it to immediately save us from eight specific dangers, each representing a corresponding human mental problem:

• Lion– Pride
• Wild elephants – Delusion and ignorance
• Forest fire– Hatred
• Snake– Jealousy
• Thief– Erroneous views, including fanatical views
• Prison– Greed and avarice
• Flood– desire, and attachment
• Devil-Doubt due to illusion

Ordinary Tibetans pray to her when they are sick, when they go on a long journey, or when they hope for success or wealth. Her teachings show us this is not the real purpose of praying or reciting the Tara mantra. When we recite the Green Tara mantra, we seek Tara’s blessings and help with our “real-world” problems. We pray to be freed from mental illusions and negative emotions that prevent us from seeing true freedom and achieving enlightenment of body, speech, and mind. Like Tara represents, not only for our benefit but also for our benefit, for the benefit of all sentient beings.

Meaning of the Green Tara Mantra

• In short, om tare tuttare ture soha means “I prostrate to the Liberator, Mother of all the Victorious Ones.”
• The Tara mantra is om tare tuttare ture soha. To explain the meaning of tare tuatara ture: tare means liberating from samsara.
• Tare shows that Mother Tara liberates living beings from samsara, from true suffering, or problems. You can relate this to the particular sufferings of human beings such as birth, old age, sickness, and death. By meeting undesirable objects and experiencing aversion; not finding desirable objects or finding them but gaining no satisfaction. All these are the problems of true suffering. If you rely upon Tara by taking refuge in her and doing Tara practices—such as the recitation of mantra or praises — with tare, Tara liberates you from all these true sufferings.
• The second word, tuttare, liberates you from the eight fears. There are eight fears related to external dangers from fire, water, air, and earth. As well as from things such as thieves and dangerous animals. However, the main dangers come from ignorance, attachment, anger, pride, jealousy, miserliness, doubt, and wrong views. These eight disturbing thoughts that you have in your mind are the main dangers. The word “tuttare” frees you from the eight fears, karma, and disturbing thoughts, the true causes of suffering.
• The third word, ture, liberates you from disease. Now, of the Four Noble Truths, ture shows the cessation of suffering, which is the ultimate Dharma. In terms of liberating from disease, the actual disease we have is ignorance not knowing the absolute nature of the I, and all the disturbing thoughts that arise from this ignorance. By liberating us from disease, ture liberates us from the true cause, disturbing thoughts, and also the true sufferings.
• The rough meaning of these three words tare tuttare ture is: “To you, the embodiment of all the Buddhas’ actions, I prostrate always — whether I am in happy or unhappy circumstances — with my body, speech, and mind.”
• The final word soha means establishing the root of the path within your heart. In other words, by taking refuge in Tara and doing Tara practice, you receive the blessings of Tara in your own heart. This gives you space to establish the root of the path, signified by tare tuttare ture, in your heart. By establishing the path of the three capable beings within your heart, you purify all impurities of your body, speech, and mind. And achieve Tara’s pure vajra holy body, holy speech, and holy mind, which are signified by Om. You transform your body, speech, and mind into Tara’s holy body, speech, and mind. This is the rough meaning of om tare tuttare ture soha.

What is Sound?

Sound is pure energy, it is a motion, a vibration. Entire existence is created because of Sound. There are eternal and external sounds, normally external sound is related to movement and creates an electromagnetic field. Healing is done through sound in the waves of the electromagnetic field. Sound or nothing, the manifest part of the One Cognizant Energy, called Brahman, swarms each iota and atom of presence. It is seen by the psyche, consumed by the feeling of hearing, and communicated by the tongue.

Sound has four levels — conventional, mental, ghostly, and supernatural, each having an attractive power field of energy. The brain is drawn to various vibrations of sound, at various degrees, not entirely settled by time, climate, temperament, milieu, real changes, past karma, and so forth. Sound influences sentiments, feelings, conduct, and activities according to its recurrence, plentifulness, or heading.

A mix of sounds that inspire feeling is an art. Perception and trial and error on the design and different parts of sound in the actual world is science. Contemplation on the internal sound is otherworldliness. Nada Anusandhana is an examination of the wellspring of sound that lies somewhere down in our cosmos.

Sound is the offspring of movement – consonant, direct, round, shot, or some other. Movement is the vibration of Shakti, the energy rule of presence. The presence is Shiva itself. Brilliant energy (Tejas) and glowing knowledge of Shiva are reflected in it. That makes sense of why sound is all-inclusive, like the Preeminent Being. Sound lights up structures and pictures in the atmosphere. Every vibration compares to an obscure plane of presence that can be reached by reciting a mantra well-defined for its design. Seems like Om (Aum) arises at a subtler level and transmits a scent that is seen by cutting-edge yogis in profound contemplation.

Aspects of Sound

1) Pitch: It is related to frequency Modulation-FM and measured in Hz (Hertz) -Do Re Mi Fa So La Si / Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Dha Ni Sa
2) Volume: It is Amplitude Modulation-AM (Loudness and softness). It is measured in dB (Decibel)
3) Rhythm: It is related to the duration, of the wavelength.
4) Timbre: It is the quality or source of sound like metallic, or natural.
5) Medium: The strikers, effort.     

What is Music?

Music is the combination of sound in a proper way. The most common way of placing sounds and tones in a mood, for the most part consolidating them to create a brought-together synthesis is known as making music. Music production is as much a science as it is an art.

To make melodious music, you would require an instrument or instruments, these instruments make sounds with string, wind, and metal utilizing extraordinary sorts of sound waves – known as ‘standing waves.

A wave that seems as though it isn’t moving is known as a standing wave. It just changes adequacy yet goes through no medium. The standing waves are the aftereffect of two different things waves do, reflection and impedance.

Aspects of music :

1) Rhythm: Rhythm (Beats) controls the movement. It can be fast and slow. When the mind agrees with the rhythm it balances the movement of the body. It helps to get distracted and get out of stress.
2) Melody: Melody affects emotions. It controls sentiment and functions to balance emotions. There is no thought while you dissolve in melody.
3) Harmony: Harmony is synchronizing and melting. The state where you enjoy harmony and healing.

What is Healing and Common Scales :

Healing is the state of balance. The process of making things in order in the system is Therapy (Activation and Purification).

1) Chromatic Scale: – -C, C#, D, D#, E,F,F#,G,G#,A,A#,B,C
2) Diatonic Scale: – CDEFGABC
3) Pentatonic Scale: – CDEGA/ CDFGA
4) Tetrads note Scale: – CDEG/ CEGA
5) Triads Scale: – CEG
6) Dyads Scale (Duet): – CG
7) Monad/Single note: – C

Sound & Music in Yogic View:

In Nepali/Sanskrit (In Yogic terms), sound healing is called Nada Chikitsa. Using music and sound to connect to a higher state of consciousness is common in most spiritual traditions. All six senses are affected (detected) by sound and receiver. The untouched and unaffected portion is Silence. Silence can be gained through awareness only, witnessing. Silence is the ultimate rest and is passive, but Sound is an activity. Movement is its nature. The vibration/sound transpires in many dimensions such as in our mind, emotion, and body, in a way of affirmative and opposite both, as thoughts, feelings and emotions, knowledge and experiences, attractions and attachments, desires and cravings, etc.

Through sound vibrations, we can treat different mental and profound circumstances. It likewise helps our mindfulness and association with each chakra. With an engaged brain and controlled breath, the psyche can turn out to be concentrated to the point that you can begin to hear the inner vibration (Anahata). This inner sound is otherwise called the heart chakra, which is answerable for the gathering of the interior “music”.

Music can be a strong profound instrument. The capacity to find, tune in, and center through ahata nothing is an open method for sharpening your focus and developing your yoga practice. Keeping in mind that neither anahata nor ahata nothing is particularly simple, figuring out how to tune in with your complete focus while at the same time calming the brain is significant and remunerating expertise that will help you in numerous regions of your yoga practice and life.