A Short Practice for Kurukulle

Kurukulle is our ability to be entirely and effectively present. She is desire, the berry-rich flush of experience. When we need to bring people or objects into our lives, it is this power—wang-thang—that practicing Kurukulle cultivates within us. When by the sheer force of our presence, we subdue enemies and obstacles alike, this too, is wang-thang. There are a wide variety of practices we can undertake to generate wang-thang, but Kurukulle is especially dear.

Praise the fierce goddess Kurukulle!
Praise that force which draws in all things!
Praise her mandala of perfect rapture!

Kurukulle, courtesy of Wikimedia Foundation. Note her implements: The flower-wrapped bow and arrow, the lotus hook in her lower right hand and the lotus-garland lasso in lower left. She strides upon the self of the practitioner.

Red like lotus ruby’s afterglow
Beauty’s form—one face, four arms, two legs;
With bow, arrow, lotus bloom, and hook:
To Kurukulle I pay homage!

om kurukulle hri svaha

Through this virtue, may I reach
Goddess Kurukulle’s state!
& establish on her stage
All beings, no exception!

Overcome with desire as saffron stains water, the gutter tantrika Soror Amrta set these lines to meter, translated by the Sachen Archive Initiative.

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