འཕགས་པ་གསར་འད་དམ་པ་མཆག་ཏ་རྣམ་པར་རྒྱལ་བའ་མད་སྡའ་རྒྱལ་པ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 3.26

3.26

Those are their four superior benefits.⁴⁶⁸

“If there are lands where this sūtra is taught, all the people will prosper and be happy; there will be no disease; merchants and travelers who go back and forth will obtain much wealth and jewels; and superior merit⁴⁶⁹ will be obtained. Those are called the various benefits that come from good qualities.”

Then Brahmā, Śakra, the Four Mahārājas, and their great retinues said to the Bhagavat, “Bhagavat, it should be known that if such a profound sūtra as this is present, then the thirty-seven qualities of the factors of enlightenment of the tathāgatas will also be present in the world and will not disappear, but when such a sūtra as this vanishes, then the true Dharma will also vanish.”

“Noble sons, it is so, it is so,”⁴⁷⁰ said the Bhagavat. “If someone with a one-pointed mind were to read correctly, recite correctly, possess correctly, contemplate correctly, and meditate correctly on just one word or one section⁴⁷¹ of this Sūtra of the Sublime Golden Light and teach it widely to many others and promulgate it for the sake of beings, then for a long time⁴⁷² there would be happiness and endless benefits from the merit.”⁴⁷³

When that vast assembly had heard the words spoken by the Bhagavat, they all gained superior benefits.⁴⁷⁴