འཕགས་པ་གསར་འད་དམ་པ་མད་སྡའ་དབང་པའ་རྒྱལ་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 51

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“ ‘The men, women, brahmins, and kṣatriyas
Who praise the jinas, with palms together in homage,
Through the recitation of these verses
Will remember their lifetimes in all their lives.

“ ‘Their limbs will be adorned by all aspects and attributes.
They will be endowed with various merits and qualities.
They will be continually offered to by kings, the lords of men.
That is what they will be like wherever they are.

“ ‘Those into whose ears the sound of this confession has entered
Have not accomplished goodness in the presence of only one buddha,
Nor in the presence of only two, or four, or five, or ten,
But rather have accomplished goodness in the presence of a thousand buddhas.’ ”¹²⁹

At that time, the Bhagavat, having listened to those verses, said to the bodhisattva Ruciraketu, “Well done! Well done! Noble one, know that all those who hear these praises of the true qualities of the tathāgatas, and the confession of bad actions that came from a golden drum in your dream, possess a vast aggregation of merit. They will benefit many beings, will bring them the satisfaction of happiness, and will be purified of all obscurations. All of these who possess this kind of special conduct have heard those verses because they have previously, in past times, praised the tathāgatas, made vast prayers, and received the blessing of the tathāgatas.”

The entire gathered assembly then praised the words of the Bhagavat.

Chapter 5: The End of the Continuum of Creating Karma

Then the Bhagavat dwelled in correct analysis, and as soon as he rested in that extremely profound, supreme samādhi, from the pores of his body there came many hundreds of thousands of light rays of various colors and all buddha realms were illuminated within that light.