འཕགས་པ་རན་ཆན་དྲ་བ་ཅན་གྱས་ཞས་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 11
The Questions of Ratnajālin 11
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Will become undeluded,
And it will be a cause for awakening to buddhahood.
“They will always be like Nārāyaṇa.
Residing in a single place, they will possess the four necessities.⁸
Their bodies will be golden colored
And display the thirty-two marks.
“Those who hear his name
And prostrate with their five points
Will permanently gain the voice of Brahmā
And abandon the unfree states.
“Those who hear the name of this world protector
And entertain no doubt
Will not shy away from awakening.
They shall never have any hesitation.
“Those who remember the victor’s name
For a full seven days and nights
Will purify the infinite seeing eyes
Praised by the buddhas.
“They shall refine the eyes of flesh
Into the eyes of a god.
They will perceive as many buddhas
As there are grains of sand in the Ganges.
“They will venerate each of them
And receive teachings from each as well.
Seeing all the buddhas with their own eyes,
They will bring comfort to all humanity.
“Those who hear the name of this thus-gone one
Have already offered unfathomable service
To the buddhas,
All of whom they will recollect.
“If his name is relayed
Before any being at all,
When those other beings hear this name,
They too will definitely proceed to awakening.
“By generating faith in this buddha,
The unfree states are dispelled,
While by engaging in debate and quarreling,
One will be born into the unfree states.
“Once beings have heard
The name of this great sage,
They shall no longer be interested
In debate and quarreling.
“The actions that lead to the Hell of Ultimate Torment,
Which could last for eons,
As well as the actions that produce a simple headache—
All such actions will not ripen for these beings.
“They shall not be burned by fire,
Nor drown in water.
Even when they draw the ire of the king,
It shall be quickly assuaged.
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- འཕགས་པ་རིན་ཆེན་དྲ་བ་ཅན་གྱིས་ཞུས་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ — Classical Tibetan