法苑珠林 99.48

99.48

Hearing the bell yet lying down and not rising,
The good deities guarding the stūpa will become angry.
In the present life one's conditions and fruits will be meager;
As future retribution one will receive a serpent's body.
Wherever the sound of the bell is heard,
Those lying down must arise,
Join their palms, and generate a good mind;
Then the worthy and noble ones will all rejoice.

The great bell resonates, awakening the multitude of beings;
Its sound pervades the immeasurable lands of the ten directions.
All sentient beings hear and know it universally,
Uprooting the suffering of sentient beings' long night.
The six consciousnesses are ever muddled in suffering through the long night;
Covered by ignorance, the sentiments have long been deluded.
Day and night hearing the bell, they awaken to realization,
Soothing the spirit in pure lands to attain spiritual penetrations.