Tara 4 inches Gold

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• Tara name literally means “star” or “planet”, and therefore she is associated with navigation and travel both literally and metaphorically as spiritual crossing to the ‘other side’ of the ocean of existence .Hence she is known literally as “she who saves” in Tibetan. In the 108 Names of the Holy Tara, Tara is ‘Leader of the caravans ….. who showeth the way to those who have lost it’ and she is named as Dhruva, the Sanskrit name for the North Star.
• Tara also embodies many of the qualities of feminine principle. She is known as the Mother of Mercy and Compassion. She is the source, the female aspect of the universe, which gives birth to warmth, compassion and relief from bad karma as experienced by ordinary beings in cyclic existence.