Om Ah Hum Vajra Guru Padma Siddhi Hum - Padmasambhava Guru Rinpoche

GURU RIMPOCHE MANTRA Om Ah Hum Vajra Guru Padma Siddhi Hum (Sanskrit) Om Ah Hung Benza Guru Pema Siddhi Hung (Dialectic variation in Tibetan pronunciation) Explanation of the Vajra Guru mantra In response to Yeshe Tsogyal’s request, the Great Master responds. “O daughter of good family, the Vajra Guru mantra is not just my single essence mantra, it is the very essence or life force of all the deities of the four classes of tantra, of all the nine yanas, and all of the 84,000 collections of dharma teachings. The essence of all of the buddhas of the three times, all of the gurus, yidams, dakas and dakinis, dharma protectors etc., the essence of all of these is contained and is complete within this mantra. How, you may ask, does this work? What is the reason for all these being complete with this mantra? Listen well and hold this in mind. Read it again and again. Write it out for the benefit of sentient beings, and teach it or demonstrate it to beings in the future.“ OM AH HUNG VAJRA GURU PEMA SIDDHI HUNG OM A