འཕགས་པ་རག་པའ་རྒྱལ་མ་ས་སར་འབྲང་བ་ཆན་མ་སངས་རྒྱས་དང 42

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For the sake of oneself or others,
The incantation will surely fulfill
Whatever activity is desired
Without any need for effort.

“Now I will explain
How to heal the sick.
A square maṇḍala⁸⁷ should be formed
Using a mixture of soil and dung.

“A beautiful maṇḍala should be painted
With powders of five different colors.
On it the adept⁸⁸ should place
Four full vases as prescribed.

“It should be strewn with flower petals
And scented with sublime incense.
To subdue a great being,
An oblation rite should also be performed.⁸⁹

“As before, flowers and perfumes
Should be offered as prescribed.
Four arrows, bound with cloth,
Should be set in the maṇḍala’s four corners.

“Next, the patient’s body
Should be bathed with fragrant perfume,
Dressed in clean clothes,
And laid in the center of the maṇḍala.

“Then, seated facing east,
The adept should speak the incantation.
By reciting it seven times,
He should effect the patient’s protection.

“If this incantation is then recited
Twenty-one times
On behalf of the patient,
All illness will be cured.

“Next, the oblation vase
Should be infused with mantra seven times.
The food, too, should be infused with mantras,
And the oblations and flowers as prescribed.

“They should be scattered seven times
On the southern side,
Precisely seven times to the west,
And precisely seven times to the north.

“Seven times below and above
Will effect the protection.
When this is done, best of brahmins,⁹⁰
One is delivered from all suffering.

“This protection was perfectly explained
By the protector, the Lion of the Śākyas.
There is no better protective incantation
In the three realms than this.

“One will not die, grow old, get sick,
Encounter the unpleasant, or part from loved ones.

“If one vigorously applies
This incantation to their own body,