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དམ་པའ་ཆས་པད་མ་དཀར་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 3.28

The White Lotus of the Good Dharma 3.28

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3.28

“They will be poor, menial workers.
They will always be powerless servants of others.
They will have many illnesses and harms²¹⁶
And will live in the world without any protector. {124}

“The one that they serve
Will not wish to pay them.
Even if paid, it will soon be lost.
Such will be the result of their bad karma. {125}

“Any medicine that they obtain,
Even if given by an expert in its preparation,
Will only cause their illness to increase
And they will never be free of their sickness. {126}

“Others will steal from them.
There will be disorder, riots, and strife.
Others will take away their wealth,
And they fall into this through their bad karma. {127}

“The ones who reject my way to buddhahood
Will live in inopportune existences.
They will not see the appearance of a world protector,
A king who is the lord of men, teaching in this world. {128}

“Such fools will not hear the Dharma;
They will be deaf and without thought.
Rejecting this kind of enlightenment,
They will never find peace. {129}

“As the result of the bad karma of rejecting this sūtra
They will be paralyzed and crippled
For many thousand trillions of eons,
As numerous as the sand grains in the Ganges. {130}

“Their gardens will be the hells.
Their homes will be the lower realms.
And they will always be in the form of
A donkey, pig, jackal, or dog.²¹⁷ {131}

“Even if they become a human,
At that time their adornments will be
Being blind, deaf, and stupid,
Always poor, and a servant to others. {132}

“Illness will be their clothing:
There will be quintillions of sores on their bodies,
And likewise abscesses, itching, and pustules,
And likewise leprosy, white leprosy, and a rotten smell. {133}

“They will have a strong belief in a self
And the strength of their anger will be great.

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