Vajrayogini - The Trauma Goddess

Vajrayogini - The Trauma Goddess

I am the diamond maiden, the player of games

The yogini is one of my forms

Showing that I am beyond earthly attachment

I am the shining revelation to the ascetic

The women in silk and roses

I am the harlot in black net and leather,

who gives enjoyable punishment

I am the glass bead master,

creating universes of form

And a spark of me is in each bead,

for I dwell in karma.

I am the Trauma Goddess,

the Lady of Pain

In return for devotion

I pull thorns from the heart

In return for obedience

I untie the knots in the belly and the head

I hold the vajra,

which gives and receives

I reshape family karma.

The Trauma Goddess is called for people in painful situations

Where anger and hatred block the path of the soul

I evaluate the benefits of revenge

And give better suggestions for spiritual growth.

I am not suited to polite society

To social striving, upward mobility, and making good impressions

I am radically honest, sensitive, brilliant, and blunt

I hold up a mirror to the best and worst facets of human life.

The Lady of Trauma is the mirror of pain

I reflect the disastrous ways that human beings interact

Then the reflections are stretched and distorted

With irony, and humour, and sadness

Loosening their grip on the heart

So that the person who seeks freedom

Can get a taste of being free.

My devotees pray:

"Lady of Trauma, Lady of Pain

Ascetic and bhairavi and sannyasini and mistress

Pull me from the disaster I have made of my life

Save me from the evil machinations of others."

This is their prayer and I hear it in their hearts

As they chant my mantra.

"Savior, Lady, Mother Goddess, bodhisattva,

Love me as I love you

I am desperate and bound

Free me by your grace."

I will give freedom,

but not without realization

Those who have been bound, bind others

Those who have suffered, cause suffering

I let them know how they have been affected

But also how they have affected others.

I do not wear bones because of death

I wear them because they represent what is beneath the surface

The blood that I drink is the evil karma of those that I save

And the karma is then halted and does not pass to others

I appear wrathful as I take on anger, hatred, fury, 

and the desire to destroy

Which are destroyed within me.

I am a dancer upon the pain of all mankind

I destroy the dark and corrupt

My compassionate side is hidden

But for those whom I love

Who have taken on my dark grace

I open a path of shining light

With pain and sorrow left behind.

Source: Dakini Translations and Publications