འཕགས་པ་རག་པའ་རྒྱལ་མ་ས་སར་འབྲང་བ་ཆན་མ་སངས་རྒྱས་དང 17

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who lacked faith, had lapsed in his training in the family of the Thus-Gone One, and had become a thief. He stole from the communal supplies⁵⁹ and consumed the articles amassed by the saṅgha from the four directions, taking them all as his own.⁶⁰ Later, he was afflicted with a severe illness and experienced intense pain.

“Distressed, and with no recourse or protection, he wailed loudly. Then, great brahmin,⁶¹ a man with lay vows who lived in the area heard his wailing. He approached the monk, wrote down the queen of incantations, the great amulet, and fastened it around the monk’s neck. As soon as he attached the queen of incantations, the great amulet, around the monk’s neck, the monk’s painful sensations were completely soothed, and he was released from every illness. He spent that night restored to health, and then he died in a state of mindfulness. When he discarded his body, he was born in the great Avīci Hell. The other monks placed his corpse on the funeral pyre, with the queen of incantations, the great amulet, still fastened to his neck. As soon as the monk was born in the Avīci Hell, all the painful sensations of the beings there were completely quelled, and they were satiated with every comfort. All the roaring fires in the Avīci Hell went out completely. Yama’s minions were all surprised and reported in detail to Yama, king of the law:⁶²

“ ‘The unbearable suffering of beings,
Caused by their karmic actions, has been totally quelled.
It is completely amazing, Your Majesty,
What is being witnessed in the narrow confines of hell!

“ ‘The burning coals,
Ever present on the bodies of beings, have gone out.
The saws no longer work.
The razorblades do not cut.