Mantra Recommended Before Traveling

Mantra Recommended Before Traveling

Date Posted:
November 2009

Rinpoche gave the following advice on what to do before traveling.

Instructions to Accomplish All Success Wherever You Go

At the beginning, when you enter the road to depart, remember and prostrate to all the buddhas and bodhisattvas who are in the ten directions, particularly those buddhas and bodhisattvas in the direction (you are going).

Then make strong requests for the success of all your wishes and then recite seven times:

NAMO BUDDHAYA / NAMO DHARMAYA / MAMA SARWA ARTHA SITAYE SVAHA (7x)

This will accomplish all your works exactly according to your wishes without obstacles.

The next practice is done particularly in the case where you have to do something on a wrong date, wrong star, or wrong time. This practice pacifies 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 the 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.

TADYATHA NAGA DRE NAGAPATI SARWA TITI MUHURTATI NAGA DRA NAMA SADUNTE NI BAWENTU SVAHA (3x)

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

Translated by Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche at Deer Park in Madison, Wisconsin on July 24, 1999. Scribed by Diana Finnegan. Source of text unknown.