“Now I will present the chapter on breaking up and gathering clouds. When there is a substantial amount rain, one should go to a charnel ground and recite the mantra for the eight-armed form five thousand times, incant five thousand blue water lilies, and perform the fire offering. The rain will surely subside.

“One should go to the edge of town, sit on a cow’s skull, and smear their body with human fat. One should set up an image of Mahābhairava and focus on it while performing a fire offering with five thousand dark blue water lilies. One should satiate themselves with meat, alcohol, blood, drink, and food.

The mantra is:

oṁ kṣaṁ ū ū ū sphoṭaya sphoṭaya māraya maraya garjja garjja ruta ruta haḥ hūṃ phaṭ | aṣṭanāgānāṃ kha kha khāhi khāhi ūḥ ūḥ.

“When recited, the clouds will surely disperse, and the rain will subside. If one washes themselves with offering water and then recites the mantra well, all manner of good qualities will result.

“One should go to a place with a solitary liṅga, sit beneath a tree, place their left forefinger in their mouth, and recite the mantra of the sixteen-armed form five thousand times while imagining a lion in their hand. The clouds will certainly disperse and depart.

“One should go to a pavilion, sit on a lion skin, and fill their mouth with blood from their calves. If one incants dung one thousand times with the mantra for the sixteen-armed form, the deluge will certainly cease.

“One should mix dark blue butterfly-pea flowers, molasses, and sesame and perform five thousand fire offerings as before. The mantra is:

oṁ mahājñānā samaya hūṁ hūṁ hūṁ phaṭ phaṭ phaṭ meghaṃ sphoṭaya hūṁ phaṭ.

“After reciting only this, this procedure for dispersing clouds, which is wondrous in the human realm, will certainly end the rain.

“When there is a drought, one should go to an empty house, dig a pit one cubit deep in the middle of a square maṇḍala, and offer one thousand flowers as a fire offering. The mantra is:

oṁ hūṁ pravarṣaya pravarṣaya jaḥ jaḥ jaḥ haḥ haḥ haḥ phaṭ.

“After reciting only this, it will surely rain.”

The Blessed One next taught an advanced procedure: “On the outskirts of town, one should take a seat on a monkey’s skull, rub their body with human fat, and drink alcohol according to the proper procedure. A yogin who craves food and drink will undoubtedly succeed. One should perform five thousand fire offerings with butterfly-pea flowers, or otherwise visualize themselves in the form of a lion and aggressively recite the following mantra after an initial roar:

oṁ muḥ haḥ pravarṣaya pravarṣaya ha ha hīṃ svāhā.

“One should then cup their hands and say, ‘Rain on me,’ while imagining the rain spreading from their own dwelling to fall on the entire vessel-like world.”