འཕགས་པ་རན་ཆན་དྲ་བ་ཅན་གྱས་ཞས་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 19
The Questions of Ratnajālin 19
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“Those who hear the name of this leader of men, this protector,
And are faithful, without hesitation,
Will acquire these five qualities,
Which shall not be lost until they attain awakening.
“They will gain a golden-colored appearance,
The supreme knowledge of a universal monarch,
Merit rivaling that of Nārāyaṇa,
And the unceasing turning of the wheel of the sacred Dharma.
“They will be fortunate and have a thousand sons
Who are heroic and courageous, capable of defeating their opponents.
Adorned with marks, their bodies will have perfect limbs.
Therefore, their power will resemble that of a supreme ruler.
“They will have many thousands of queens
Who are fine and beautiful, with golden complexions.
Going late to bed and rising early,
They will never cause their supreme rulers any sorrow.
“The vassals, ministers, and major householders
Living in his realm
Will never cause the king any grief when they meet.
Their merit will even be greater than that.
“Even the crafty gods will find them difficult to match.
All the yakṣas and nāgas living in the human world
And all the other beings living in his realm
They will establish at the seat of awakening.
“Their dominion will expand and the harvests grow bountiful.
Their realm will be happy and buddhas will appear.
They will perform sacred worship of them.
The land of the king will be free from malice.
“Even those scholars who hear the perfect name of this buddha,
Yet doubt it or become displeased with it,
Will benefit from the perfect Dharma
In the sublime discourse that I have spoken today.
“However, this is not the case for those who abandoned the Dharma
Of previous victors, or those in the grip of demons,
Or those who in the past despised
The essential beings, the perfect victors.
“Young man, those who haven’t witnessed the delights
Of the royal palace and this realm of the Licchavis
And who haven’t seen me
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- འཕགས་པ་རིན་ཆེན་དྲ་བ་ཅན་གྱིས་ཞུས་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ — Classical Tibetan