འཕགས་པ་འཇམ་དཔལ་གྱ་རྩ་བའ་རྒྱད 290

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Are effective throughout the entire period [indicated for them].
The recommended places have already been specified;
Now the time is being told:

“The mantra accomplishments related to the victorious ones¹⁸²²
Arise at [the time of] the arising of any buddha.¹⁸²³
During the middle time of the buddhas,
The accomplishments related to the Lotus and Vajra families arise.

“The mantras belonging to other families
Are accomplished at other times.
Their success depends on the right time;
It is said not to arise at other times.

“The highest accomplishment comes from ardor;
It can be attained within three births.
However, those who recite the mantra continually,
Are mentally devoted to it,

“And have faith in the bodhisattvas
Can attain accomplishment even in this life.
If they have faith in the Three Jewels,
Are adorned with bodhicitta,

“Observe the prescribed conduct, have great insight,
And have confidence in the tantras and mantras,
Their mantras will be accomplished without effort,
As they thus maintain the conduct of awakening.

“Ordinary beings, [too], can accomplish their rites
And fulfill their specified individual aims.
The mantras can always be accomplished,
But not by beings who are deluded.

“For this reason, the victorious ones
Have taught this king of manuals,
And so, [too], the seventh chief buddha¹⁸²⁴
Teaches in detail its rituals and mantras.”

The foremost among sages,
This majestic moon among buddhas,
Further said to the seniormost son of the buddhas,
Mañjughoṣa of great splendor:

“Listen, O divine youth, about the power of mantras
To manifest the highest destiny.¹⁸²⁵
At the time when the buddhas, the guides of the world,
Are physically present,

“At that time the accomplishment
Of uṣṇīṣa and other such mantras is noteworthy.
At that time King Cakravartin
And Tejorāśi become celebrated.

“[Also,] Sitātapatra and Jayoṣṇīṣa
Are extolled by the victorious ones.
These and other uṣṇīṣa [kings]
Will be accomplished at that time.

“At the time when the wheel turner¹⁸²⁶
Is reborn in Jambūdvīpa
And remains there as the supreme among two-legged beings—