Oh Goddess Tārā!

Embodiment of the primordial sound,

the very māyā bīja, I surrender within Thee;

Thou art beautiful, with form both fierce and charmful,

Thou art the Bindu and the half-moon, 

Whose substance is Hūm and Phaṭ;

Thou art the Mantrā, in which, I take shelter,

within your threefold forms of the Gross, Subtle, and Supreme,

Thou art beyond the reach of the manifest sound - || 4 ||

-Tārāśtakam from Nīla Tantrā