བསླབ་པ་ལྔའ་ཕན་ཡན་གྱ་མད 11

11

Fearless and unhesitant.
Their perceptive minds will retain what they learn,
And they will be considered learned among significant men.

“A man or a woman,
By refraining from consuming alcohol,
Will experience these benefits
As a deva or as a human.

“After the destruction of the body, after death, they will be reborn in the happy rebirth-destinies of the higher realms, in a deva world, in heaven.

“These disciplines should be guarded. Any person, whether a man or a woman, who does not guard⁸⁴ and cultivate these disciplines will, after the destruction of the body, after death, fall and be reborn in bad or unfortunate rebirth-destinies, in the lower realms.⁸⁵ Those who guard and cultivate these disciplines will, after the destruction of the body, after death, be reborn in the happy rebirth-destinies of the higher realms, in a deva world.”

This is what the Bhagavān said, and the monks rejoiced at what the Bhagavān had taught.

Colophon

This sūtra was translated, edited, and finalized by the learned translator, the Śākya monk Nyima Gyaltsen Palsangpo, in the presence of the great scholar Ānandaśrī at the translation center of the great monastery Pal Tharpaling. May it become like sun and moon ornaments crowning the earth!⁸⁶