འཕགས་པ་ལས་ཀྱ་སྒྲབ་པ་ཐམས་ཅད་རྣམ་པར་སྦྱང་བ་ཞས་བྱ་བའ་གཟངས 1

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Obeisance to the Blessed Akṣobhya!

namo ratna­trayāya | oṃ kaṅkani kaṅkani rocani rocani troṭani troṭani trāsani trāsani pratihana pratihana sarva­karma­param­parāṇi me svāhā | ⁵

The application of this dhāraṇī is as follows:

If one recites it constantly,⁶ the entire succession of karma will be purified one by one.

If one recites it at the three junctures of the day,⁷ even the five sins of immediate retribution will be purified.

If one recites it once, bad omens, bad dreams, and inauspicious events will disappear.

If one holds it on one’s body or writes it into a booklet and⁸ wears it tied around one’s neck, one will never experience any of the untimely deaths.

If one is overcome with compassion and recites it into the ears of a moribund⁹ beast, bird, human, or nonhuman being, that being will not be reborn in the unfavorable destinies.

Moreover, if somebody has died some time ago and one recites it one hundred, one thousand, or one hundred thousand times, with friendly kindness and compassion, in the name of the dead person,¹⁰ that sentient being will be liberated at that very moment, even if they have already been born in the hells.

If one recites it over some earth, or sesame seeds, or mustard seeds, or water and scatters that over the corpse, or washes the corpse,¹¹ and then has it cremated,¹² or places it for keeping in a caitya,¹³ or if one writes the spell