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The Great Compassion Mantra in Sanskrit The Great Compassion Mantra The Vast, Great, Perfect, Full, Unimpeded Great Compassion Heart Dharani By The Venerable Master Hsuan Hua The great mantra of great compassion penetrates heaven and earth. When you recite the Great Compassion Mantra, the heavens quake and the earth trembles as the mantra penetrates heaven and earth. If you recite it 108 times every day for a thousand days (that's about three years) reciting at the same time everyday without missing a day no matter how busy you are, then the ten kings who are directors in the hells in the courts of Yama are delighted. Why is it called the "Great Compassion Mantra"? Because its compassion can relieve living beings of all their sufferings and difficulties. Because it relieves suffering and bestows happiness, it's called the Great Compassion Mantra. The most important, it can cure all illness. No matter what your illness, if you recite the Great Compassion Mantra, you will be cured. Someone asks, "I recite it. Why haven't I been cured?" You haven't been cured because your heart is not sincere. With a sincere heart, you will certainly obtain a response from the mantra. When you have recited 108 times every day for a thousand days, the ten directions in the courts of Yama will be delighted and all illness will be cured. You will have earned a great deal of merit because for three years: while reciting the mantra, you were not creating offenses, you weren't drinking wine, eating meat, or eating the five pungent plants. In the hells there is a platform on which stands everything you've ever done--killing, stealing, arson--reliving all those experiences again. But you have no karma, then nothing will show up on the screen. Because you are devoid of karmic obstacles, they hang a sign up in the hells which says, "So and So recites the Great compassion Mantra and has already destroyed his offense-karma." All ghosts and spirits in the hells must bow down in respect to him if they were meeting the Buddhas of the past, present and future. They protect him as they would the Buddhas and they must inform all other ghosts and spirits not to give him any trouble. So the power of the Great Compassion Mantra is inconceivable. =============================================================== Benefits in Reciting and Holding The Great Compassion Mantra Excerpts from The Dharani Sutra English translation by the Buddhist Text Translation Society, Dharma Realm Buddhist University, USA If humans and gods recite and hold the phrases of the Great Compassion Mantra, then when they approach the end of life, all the Buddhas of the ten directions will come to take them by the hand to rebirth in whatever Buddha land they wish, according to their desire. People and gods who recite and hold the Great Compassion Mantra will obtain fifteen kinds of good birth and will not suffer fifteen kinds of bad death. Those who recite and hold the spiritual Mantra of Great Compassion will not suffer any of these fifteen kinds of bad death and will obtain the following fifteen kinds of good birth: 1. Their place of birth will always have a good king 2. They will always be born in a good country 3. They will always be born at a good time 4. They will always meet good friends 5. The organs of their body will always be complete 6. Their heart will be pure and full in the way 7. They will not violate the prohibitive precepts 8. Their family will be kind and harmonious 9. They will always have the necessary wealth and goods in abundance 10. They will always obtain the respect and help of others 11. Their richness will not be plundered 12. They will obtain everything they seek 13. Dragons, gods, and good spirits will always protect them 14. In the place where they are born they will see the Buddha and hear the Dharma 15. They will awaken to the profound meaning of that Proper Dharma which they hear. List of avoidance of bad death :- 1. They will neither die of starvation...