བསལ་བའ་ཚལ་ཆན་པའ་མད 23

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Venerable Blessed One, such is the great benefit of this Great Sūtra of Cool Grove.

“Venerable Blessed One, a non-Buddhist who lacks devotion to the Blessed One’s doctrine and who dislikes it, wants to impair it, does not want to help it, and does not want it to be successful or thrive cannot prevent the success of one who receives, holds, recites, masters, and uses this Great Sūtra of Cool Grove. Rather, nonhuman beings will kill them, cause them various kinds of misery, destroy them, and affect them endlessly. Why? Because they want to harm, do not want to help, and do not want success or well-being for the practitioner. Whoever has such erroneous views is destroyed.

“Venerable Blessed One, among all of the protections in the world by which the Four Great Kings protect sentient beings in order to guard, protect, and shield them, this sūtra is supreme, primary, and exalted.”

The Four Great Kings then spoke these verses to the Blessed One:

“Supreme human,
Even rākṣasas cannot harm
One who is protected
And granted well-being by this sūtra.

“Anyone who upholds these sūtras
Perfectly, continuously,
And in their entirety,
Just as taught by the supreme human,

“Cannot be harmed
By yakṣas, pretas, bhūtas,
Kumbhāṇḍas, rākṣasas, unmādas,
Wanderers, nāgas, and the like.