法苑珠林 60.22

60.22

Recite this mantra three times, take five-colored threads, tie them into two knots, and fasten them around the neck. This dhāraṇī was spoken by forty-two hundred million Buddhas. If practitioners can copy, read, and recite this mantra, they will be protected by a thousand Buddhas in the present life. After this person's life ends, they will not fall into the evil destinies; they will be born in the Tuṣita Heaven and behold Maitreya face to face. Furthermore, if there are sentient beings who can cultivate this mantra, fasting for seven days and consuming only cow's milk, taking a single meal at midday with no other mixed food, and performing deśanā six times during the day and night: all the grave transgressions previously committed across billions of kalpas will be completely exhausted at once. They will attain to see a thousand Buddhas stroking their heads with their hands and conferring upon them vyākaraṇa, and their past offenses, disasters, and evils will all be destroyed without remainder.