Green Tara
(Goddess of accomplishing mission)
Tara is manifestation of action aspect of enlightened beings, so she is most appropriate one to depend on for accomplish any virtuous mission. There are many inner obstacles of spiritual development, and the inner obstacles can cause to manifest external obstacles. To be successful in daily life and practice of spiritual path, we need to rely on a specialized enlightened being like Tara.
Mantra
OM TARE TUTARE TURE SOHA
To you, embodiment of all the buddhas’ actions, I prostrate always—whether I am in happy or unhappy circumstances—with my body, speech and mind
By doing practice of Tara and reciting her mantra every day with pure motivation and strong devotion; one collects unimaginably great amount of merit, never falls in any painful circumstances, quickly attains the Enlightenment, receives blessings from enumerable Buddhas, gets the wishes related to health, wealth, business, job, having a child, etc fulfilled, and get protected from all kinds of danger. Meditation of Tara is specially effective and appropriate for a person, who got great mission of virtue to accomplish.
Many-many eons ago, during the life time of Buddha Dundubhisvara, in the Universe Manifold Light. Princess named Moon of Wisdom-knowledge lived. She was very devote disciple of the Buddha and would do many offerings daily to the Buddha and His Sangha. Eventually, she generated bodhicitta, the aspiration to attain Great Enlightenment in order to benefit every living being. On knowing that, bhikshus of the Buddha urged her to dedicate the merits she accumulated by generating the bodhichita to get reborn as a man and attain Enlightenment. However, the princess rejected the advice, saying
Where there is no man, there is no woman,
No self, no person, and no consciousness.
Labeling “male” or “female” has no essence,
But deceives the evil-minded world.
Thus she vowed “Many aspire to achieve enlightenment in male body, no one wishes to achieve enlightenment in the form of woman. Therefore, until the samsara ends, I shall remain women and work to benefit beings.”
