[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Buddhist Sanskrit literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit) › [Mahāyāna sūtras](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra) › [Suvarṇaprabhāsottamasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.suvarnaprabhasa) › [འཕགས་པ་གསེར་འོད་དམ་པ་མཆོག་ཏུ་རྣམ་པར་རྒྱལ་བའི་མདོ་སྡེའི་རྒྱལ་པོ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.suvarnaprabhasa*bo) › [The Sutra of the Sublime Golden Light (1)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.suvarnaprabhasa*bo~en-84000) › 8.26 # འཕགས་པ་གསར་འད་དམ་པ་མཆག་ཏ་རྣམ་པར་རྒྱལ་བའ་མད་སྡའ་རྒྱལ་པ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད 8.26 The Sūtra of the Sublime Golden Light (1) 8.26 - **Language:** English ### [8.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.suvarnaprabhasa*bo~en-84000.8.26) “ ‘ “Rice, barley, and all harvests Will suddenly lose their flavor. When eaten they will be disliked, And they will not cause the body’s elements to increase. “ ‘ “The complexions of beings will lose their luster. Their strength will weaken and decline. Even though they eat much food, They will not become full. “ ‘ “Every one of the beings Who are in that kingdom Will be weak and without courage And unable to accomplish any deeds. “ ‘ “Most of the inhabitants will be struck by illness, Their bodies tormented by various sufferings. Demons will pervade completely— Everywhere demons will arise. “ ‘ “Because the king practices unrighteousness, And because he relies on sinful companions, Throughout the three kinds of worlds There will be the experience of all kinds of calamities.¹⁰⁵⁶ “ ‘ “Those kinds of misfortunes will be endless, And though they occur in his realm, And though he sees the evil people there, He will ignore them and not be afraid.¹⁰⁵⁷ “ ‘ “Although all the devas had blessed him And made him the king of that land, He does not protect his kingdom Through the true, sublime Dharma. “ ‘ “If someone accomplishes virtuous conduct, They will always be reborn in the higher realms. If they commit bad actions, then at death, They will certainly fall into the lower existences. “ ‘ “If a king allows his subjects To freely commit bad actions, Then the devas of Trāyastriṃśa Will all be greatly anguished. “ ‘ “He will not be acting in accord with The teaching of the devas or his parents, And as he is not a righteous person, He is not a king who is a respectful son. “ ‘ “When he sees in the kingdom The practice of unrighteousness, And he punishes it in accord with the Dharma And does not decide to ignore it, Then for that reason all the many devas Will give their protection to that king. “ ‘ “If he brings to an end sinful Dharma For the sake of practicing the conduct of enlightenment, Then that king will in that very lifetime Definitely experience the observable karmic result. - [Previous: 8.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.suvarnaprabhasa*bo~en-84000.8.25) - [Next: 8.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.suvarnaprabhasa*bo~en-84000.8.27) - [Up: 8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.suvarnaprabhasa*bo~en-84000.8) ## Linked texts (1) - [འཕགས་པ་གསེར་འོད་དམ་པ་མཆོག་ཏུ་རྣམ་པར་རྒྱལ་བའི་མདོ་སྡེའི་རྒྱལ་པོ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.suvarnaprabhasa*bo.8.26) — Classical Tibetan --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.suvarnaprabhasa*bo~en-84000.8.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.suvarnaprabhasa*bo~en-84000.8.26) · Pramāṇa