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འཕགས་པ་ཤན་ཏ་རྒྱས་པ་ཆན་པའ་སྡ་ཉ་མའ་སྙང་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བའ་མད 12.7

The Quintessence of the Sun 12.7

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12.7

“You did not enjoy living among others,
And for a thousand lifetimes,
You entertained the thought
‘May this be my food!’

“Due to the ripening of that karmic action,
You were born here as a nāga,
And those creatures living on your body
Are now constantly feeding on you.

“You are therefore living in boiling water,
And you have become blind.
In the future, you will eat
Burning iron and copper in hell.

“Without strength and filled with distress,
You are now weeping among the nāga lords,
But if you confess each of your faults,
You shall be freed from your sufferings.”

The Blessed One then touched his face
With his gold-like hand.
Considering the hardships he had undergone,
The Teacher then said,

“When I was the king Excellent Eyes,
I once removed both my eyes
For the sake of a blind brāhmaṇa,
With these words of truth.

“With those exact words of truth,
May you gain faultless eyes!
Through my excellent conduct,
May your past actions be purified!”

tadyathā: cakṣukhava rasanakhava karmakhava ananjana viraja vara anta jñāma nisaraṇatroya a he candra ḍane krimi śuddhe phal śuddhe aje taje tale tantale vasedhasake vasate rūrati mahārūravi triratnaprate svāhā.

As those words of truth were uttered by the Blessed One, the eyes of Feeble Fruit became immaculate, as did the eyes of fifty-three thousand other nāgas. Furthermore, the previous karmic obscurations of eight billion four hundred million yakṣas, kumbhāṇḍas, pretas, piśācas, and humans were exhausted, and their eyes also became immaculate.

The god Susīma joined his palms and exclaimed, “Look at the power of the leaders of the world!

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