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The Great Increasing Jewel, Fathomless Celestial Mansion, Extremely Well Abiding, Secret Holy Mantra

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The Great Increasing Jewel, Fathomless Celestial Mansion, Extremely Well Abiding, Secret Holy Mantra[1]

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Teaching on the Mantra from Lama Zopa Rinpoche

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This text is from the Kangyur (Buddha’s teachings, the sutras[2]). It is very beneficial to recite these names and mantras. It is especially good to recite this mantra before going to see important people or participating in important meetings where you want those people to follow and listen to you. This mantra also can help for business and bring wealth.

In the text, it says to recite this mantra three times each day. Keep the text in your wallet or car or somewhere handy.

Buddha taught such things because his omniscient mind knows the various ways to help others, because he knows what methods fit each sentient being. Out of great compassion the Buddha gave various mantras, etc. to help to remove suffering of sentient beings. He showed these various methods while showing the unmistaken path to be free from samsara and achieve liberation and the unmistaken path to achieve enlightenment.

Of course, people who haven’t heard Buddha’s teachings on the path to enlightenment may think that Buddha only gave these various mantras, etc. but in our case we know that there is the whole path to enlightenment. Also, we have heard this from His Holiness the Dalai Lama who taught the extensive path. This is Buddha’s skillful means to guide sentient beings to enlightenment and to solve their problems. The ultimate benefit is showing the entire path to enlightenment.

This mantra is much more valuable than the sky filled with diamonds, gold, and wishfulfilling jewels. This extensive ordinary kind of wealth is nothing compared to the benefits of this mantra. This mantra has benefits like the sky to remove obstacles and to bring success. It is good to put this mantra in one’s home, framed.

Just by seeing this mantra directs one to enlightenment, one’s life becomes irreversibly led toward enlightenment. Reciting this mantra can purify the ten non-virtuous actions and the five uninterrupted negative actions. It can prevent one from being born in the three lower realms. By touching or keeping the mantra, or also by hearing the mantra, there are the same benefits. Just by remembering the mantra it becomes an offering to all the buddhas.

This mantra is called: “The great increasing jewel, fathomless celestial mansion, extremely well abiding, secret holy mantra.”

From the Kangyur:

Buddha told Vajrapani: "Anyone who makes offerings every day for a hundred thousand eons to the buddha bhagavans, the Destroyer Qualified Gone Beyond Ones equaling the number of the sand grains of the Pacific Ocean, ten million by hundred billion by hundred thousand times,[3] who makes offerings of enjoyments of happiness, clothes, alms, bedding, medicinal needs, conditions for treatment, to eat or drink, chawa roots,[4] trunks,[5] leaves,[6] flowers,[7] fruits,[8] food offering of cakes,[9] and palaces, who makes offerings to all the tathagatas every day with flowers, smoke incense, scented smell (perfume and so forth), garlands, ointments, umbrellas, banners, offering flags, who offers great thousand three thousand worlds fully filled up with the seven types of precious jewels everyday, offering to the buddhas is not generating great heaps of merit. Anyone who recites the Secrecy of all the Tathagatas (Gone As It Is) just one time will have greater and more heaps of merit. Even all the Tathagatas cannot fully express it.
"Anyone who remembers, even just once, this Victory Dharani Secrecy of Tathagatas, will be completely renowned with all the special qualities explained above. Therefore, this becomes offering to all the tathagatas, it becomes offering everyday, with all the extraordinary exalted necessities of enjoyments, to the Secrecy of the Tathagatas."
Then all those who gathered as an entourage around the Buddha, devas, nagas, harm givers, cannibals, asuras, sky floating one,[10] miham chi,[11] toche chenpo[12], human and nonhuman beings all made the loud sound of "ah la la", produced great sound of laughter, and bowed at Buddha's feet.
Then Buddha Bhagavan exclaimed, "Kaymaho! This mantra is similar to the Buddha

descending in this world, to the sublime one extremely difficult to find. It is the heart of secret holiness. Yes, left in this land of Jambudvipa."

Then all the ten direction tathagatas proclaimed "This is excellent!" to the mighty

Shakya. Then they each went away to their own pure land. Then the Bhagavan Tathagata Mighty Shakya with great miraculous performance went away into the unforgettable world.

The Actual Practice

I prostrate to all the tathagatas, to all those gone beyond.

Visualization:

At your heart visualize a wish-granting jewel. From the jewel many different colors shine out and in the center of the jewel visualize your mind in the form of the seed syllable BHRUM. Then visualize the essence of samsara and peace (liberation and enlightenment) all absorb into the BHRUM. Then light beams draw back into the center of the jewel all success for oneself and others, whatever one wishes. With this visualization one should recite the following mantra.

Mantra:

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OM BIBULA GARBHE MANI PRAPHE / TATHAGATA NI RADE SHA NE / MANI MANI / SU
PRAPHE / BIMALE / SAGARA GAMBHIRE / HUM HUM / JVALA JVALA / BUDDHA
VILOKITE / GUHYA ADHIKSHTHITE / GARBHE SVAHA

(recite as many times as possible)

There are two short mantras that should be recited a few times at the end of the meditation session. They are:

Nearing Heart Mantra

OM MANI VAJRE HUM

Heart Mantra

OM MANI DHIRI HUM


Colophon:

Translated by Lama Zopa Rinpoche. 12 July 2002, Kachoe Dechen Ling, and scribed by Ven. Roger Kunsang. This document is a compilation of various transcriptions of translations of this same mantra that took place in June 1996, January 1999, and July 2002, and scribed by Ven. Roger Kunsang and Ven. Nyingje. This practice has been compiled and checked by Ven. Constance Miller, FPMT Education Department, in October 2002. Corrected with new Tibetan text, February 2005 by Kendall Magnussen, FPMT Education Department. Quote from the Kangyur given by Lama Zopa Rinpoche in 2008 and scribed by Ven. Tsen-la. Lightly edited by Ven. Gyalten Mindrol, FPMT Education Department, May 2008.

Footnotes

  1. Lama Zopa Rinpoche has also translated this title as "Arya Exalted Increasing Great Jewel, Unfathomable Celestial Mansion, Extremely Secret Accomplishing Great Success."
  2. Rinpoche mentions that the Kangyur was translated into Tibetan from Sanskrit, and that the original text of the Kangyur is Indian.
  3. ten billion x one trillion
  4. radishes, etc.
  5. sugar canes
  6. vegetables
  7. lotuses, utpalas
  8. raisins, walnut, peaches
  9. zhalze, which is a particular food offering in the line of the set of eight offerings; mostly it has the design of torma
  10. Vishnu
  11. Devas who haven taken human form to receive teachings
  12. Great spirit possession landlord

Source

Translated by Lama Zopa Rinpoche
lamayeshe.com