The shurangama mantra The shurangama mantra | Page 225

【THE SHURANGAMA SUTRA _ EXTRACTION.】
long they will obtain awakening to
patience with the non-production of
dharmas. 6:143
on their bodies or to place it in their
homes; and then all such disasters
and calamities will completely
disappear. 6:146
”Moreover, Ananda, if women who
do not have children and want to
conceive can sincerely memorize and
recite this mantra or carry the mantra,
Syi Dan Dwo Bwo Da La, on their
bodies, they can give birth to sons or
daughters endowed with blessings,
virtue, and wisdom. 6:144
”Ananda, in each and every country
where the people accord with this
mantra, the heavenly dragons are
delighted, the winds and rains are
seasonal, the crops are abundant, and
the people are peaceful and happy.
6:148
”Those who seek long life will obtain
long life. Those who seek to quickly
perfect their reward will quickly gain
perfection. The same is true for those
who seek something regarding their
bodies, their lives, their appearance,
or their strength. 6:145
”It can also suppress all evil stars
which may appear in any of the
directions and transform themselves
in uncanny ways. Calamities and
obstructions will not arise. People
will not die accidentally or
unexpectedly, nor will they be bound
by fetters, cangues, or locks. Day and
night they will be at peace, and no
evil dreams will disturb their sleep.
6:149
”At the end of their lives, they will
gain the rebirth they hope for in
whichever of the countries of the ten
directions they wish. They certainly
will not be born in poorly endowed
places, or as inferior people; even
less will they be reborn in some odd
form. 6:146
”Ananda, this Saha World has eighty-
four thousand changeable and
disastrous evil stars. Twenty-eight
great evil stars are the leaders, and of
these, eight great evil stars are the
rulers. They take various shapes, and
when they appear in the world they
bring disaster and weird happenings
upon living beings. 6:150
”Ananda, if there is famine or plague
in a country, province, or village, or
if perhaps there are armed troops,
brigands, invasions, war, or any other
kind of local threat or danger, one
can write out this spiritual mantra and
place it on the four city gates, or on a
chaitya or on a dhvaja, and instruct
all the people of the country to gaze
upon the mantra, to make obeisance
to it, to revere it, and to single-
mindedly make offerings to it; one
can instruct all the citizens to wear it
”But they will all be eradicated
wherever there is the mantra. The
boundaries will be secured for twelve
yojanas around, and no evil calamity
or misfortune will ever enter in.
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