འཕགས་པ་གསར་འད་དམ་པ་མཆག་ཏ་རྣམ་པར་རྒྱལ་བའ་མད་སྡའ་རྒྱལ་པ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 2.20
The Sūtra of the Sublime Golden Light (1) 2.20
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2.20
Attain the result that is the highest enlightenment,
And constantly turn the perfect Dharma wheel.
“ ‘May their lives continue for countless eons,
And may they teach the Dharma correctly and benefit beings.
May they bring to an end numerous kleśas and sufferings,
And cause desire, anger, ignorance, and so on, to cease.
“ ‘May beings who are in the lower existences,
Their bodies pervaded by a great blazing fire,
On hearing the sublime sound of the great drum
Be freed from suffering²¹⁸ and go to the Buddha for refuge.
“ ‘May all attain knowledge of past lives,
Remembering a hundred thousand lifetimes.²¹⁹
May they remember the Lord of Munis
And hear the profound teaching of the Tathāgata.
“ ‘Through hearing the sublime sound of the golden drum,
May they always be reliant upon the buddhas.
May they all completely forsake bad actions
And practice solely that which is pure and good.
“ ‘May all humans and devas
Who pray one-pointedly with devotion²²⁰
Hear the sublime sound of the golden drum
And completely fulfill their aspirations.
“ ‘May beings who have fallen into Avīci,
Whose bodies are tormented by the fires of hell,
And those who are in saṃsāra without protector or refuge,
On hearing that sound have their sufferings cease.²²¹
“ ‘May those born as devas, humans, pretas, and animals,
Who are experiencing many obstacles and sufferings,²²²
On hearing the sublime sound of the golden drum
Free themselves of suffering and attain liberation.
“ ‘I pray that the lords of two-legged beings, who at this time
Are continually present in worlds in the ten directions,
Will look lovingly upon me
With minds of great compassion.²²³
“ ‘Any being who has no refuge
And who is without a protector—
May those who are in that condition
Have the great refuges.
“ ‘In the presence of those with the ten strengths,
I confess today, single-mindedly, all of