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འཕགས་པ་ཤན་ཏ་རྒྱས་པ་ཆན་པའ་སྡ་ཉ་མའ་སྙང་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བའ་མད 1.17

The Quintessence of the Sun 1.17

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1.17

the seats, the medicine, the tools, and the cattle that have been dedicated to those who abide by the Dharma. All those beings—from the members of the kṣatriya class to śūdras—will soon experience twenty undesirable consequences in their present life. What are the twenty?²³ (1) They will be abandoned by the gods. (2) Their infamy will resound in all the cardinal and intermediate directions. (3) They will be abandoned by their friends and kin. (4) They will have a lot of enemies. (5) Their wealth and valuables will deteriorate. (6) They will have a lot of distractions. (7) Their limbs will be impaired. (8) They will suffer from insomnia. (9) They will constantly be tormented by craving. (10) They will be poisoned by what they eat and drink. (11) They will quickly be separated from their dear and loved ones. (12) They will continuously fight with others. (13) Their fathers, mothers, siblings, spouses, daughters, and male and female servants will not follow their instructions. (14) All their secret mantras, secret riches, secret retinues, and secret possessions will be revealed. (15) Their possessions will be squandered by the five terrors, such as the hostile confiscation of one’s property. (16) They will quickly be struck by severe diseases. (17) They will be without doctors and attendants and will experience the suffering of their flesh and blood drying out. (18) They will die in their excrement and urine. Your Majesty, those are the twenty undesirable consequences that those beings will quickly experience.

“After they die, those who steal and use for themselves the resources, possessions, and valuables that have been dedicated to the monks who abide by the Dharma

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