Vajra Armor

[dakini_boi]

Just wondering, is Vajra Armor practice used for emotional disorders?
How about lung imbalance, for example insomnia? Or would there be other practices more specific to such things?

[Malcolm]

Just wondering, is Vajra Armor practice used for emotional disorders?
How about lung imbalance, for example insomnia? Or would there be other practices more specific to such things?

The collection of activities for Vajra armor states:

"This Vajra armor volume of mantras destroys all of the four hundred and four classes of disease, the one thousand and eighty classes of spirits, the eighty-four bad omens, the three hundred and sixty calamities, the eighteen kinds of untimely death, and so on."

I'd say it is pretty inclusive.

M

[pemachophel]

Just in case you're not familiar with the concept of the 404 diseases in TM, when the text says "404 kinds of disease," that means the 101 kinds of wind disease plus the 101 kinds of bile disease plus the 101 kinds of phlegm disease plus the 101 kinds of combined disease for a total of 404 diseases. Thus wind disease are definitely implied in the source text even if the word "wind" is not specifically mentioned. So rest your mind on this point and have no doubt about this mantra's supreme curative effectiveness.

Good luck and good recitations.

[dakini_boi]

Thanks you guys. I didn't know what the 404 diseases were, your clarification helps, Pema Chopel.

Why does the text say "volume of mantras"? - I thought there was just one Vajra Armor mantra

[Malcolm]

Thanks you guys. I didn't know what the 404 diseases were, your clarification helps, Pema Chopel.

Why does the text say "volume of mantras"? - I thought there was just one Vajra Armor mantra

There is only one mantra. Here volume is a translation of 'bum,which also means 100,000. So it means this mantra includes everything. If I translated is as "the one hundred thousand mantras of Vajra armor" you would even be more confused, in addition to such a translation being incorrect.

N

[dakini_boi]

Haha, yes that's true. Thanks for the clarification.

Just one more question about the Vajra Armor mantra - I know there's no visualization for it, but I'm curious - who is the deity associated with it? Is it Vajrapani, or Guru Dragpo? Or are these one and the same in this case?

Thanks for answering my questions, I offer you several recitations of Vajra Armor.

[Malcolm]

Haha, yes that's true. Thanks for the clarification.

Just one more question about the Vajra Armor mantra - I know there's no visualization for it, but I'm curious - who is the deity associated with it? Is it Vajrapani, or Guru Dragpo? Or are these one and the same in this case?

Thanks for answering my questions, I offer you several recitations of Vajra Armor.

Padmashavari, a form of Vajrapani. There are in fact versions of this practice that are full fledged yidam practices.

[Adamantine]

Thanks you guys. I didn't know what the 404 diseases were, your clarification helps, Pema Chopel.

Why does the text say "volume of mantras"? - I thought there was just one Vajra Armor mantra

There is only one mantra. Here volume is a translation of 'bum,which also means 100,000. So it means this mantra includes everything. If I translated is as "the one hundred thousand mantras of Vajra armor" you would even be more confused, in addition to such a translation being incorrect.

N

Is it definitely not related to reciting one bum?