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In the language of India: Arya Bhadra Charya Pranidhana
Raja
In the language of Tibet [translated into
English]:
The King of Aspiration Prayers,
the Aspiration for
Noble Excellent Conduct
I pay homage to
the noble Manjushri.
To those, in the worlds of the ten
directions, however many there are,
All the lions among humans
who appear during the three times-
To all of them without
exception
I pay homage with respectful body, speech, and
mind.
The force of my Aspiration Prayer for Excellent
Conduct,
Brings all the victorious ones directly to
mind;
Bowing down with bodies as numerous as atoms in the
realms,
I prostrate to all the victorious ones.
In a
single atom there are buddhas as numerous as atoms,
Each residing
in the midst of their sons and daughters;
Like that, I imagine
that the whole dharmadhatu
Is completely filled with victorious
ones.
To those with oceans of inexhaustible praise-worthy
qualities-
With sounds containing oceans of tones of melodic
speech,
I express the qualities of all the victorious ones,
I
praise all the sugatas.
With the finest flowers, the finest
garlands,
Music, ointments, supreme parasols,
Supreme lamps,
and the finest incense
I make offerings to the victorious
ones.
With the finest cloths, supreme scents,
And fine
powders equal to Mount Meru,
All displayed in supreme and
magnificent ways,
I make offerings to those victorious
ones.
With vast unsurpassable offerings
I venerate all the
victorious ones.
Through the power of faith in excellent
conduct
I prostrate and offer to the victorious
ones.
Whatever negative actions I have performed
With
body, speech, and also mind
Overpowered by desire, aggression,
and stupidity
I confess each and every one of them.
I
rejoice everyone's merit-
The victorious ones of the ten
directions, the bodhisattvas,
The pratyekabuddhas, those in
training,
Those beyond training, and all beings.
I
request the protectors,
The lamps of the worlds of the ten
directions,
Who, passing through the stages of awakening,
attained buddhahood
beyond attachment,
To turn the unsurpassable dharma
wheel.
I supplicate with my palms joined together
Those
who intend to demonstrate nirvana
To remain for kalpas as
numerous as atoms in the realms
For the welfare and happiness of
all beings.
I dedicate whatever slight virtue is accumulated
through
Prostrating, offering, confessing,
Rejoicing,
requesting, and supplicating
To enlightenment.
I make
offerings to all the past buddhas
And those residing in the
worlds of the ten directions.
May those who have not
appeared
Quickly fulfill their intentions, and passing through
the stages of awakening, appear as buddhas.
May the realms of
the ten directions, however many,
Be completely pure and
vast;
May they be filled with buddhas and bodhisattvas
Who
have gone to sit before the powerful bodhi tree.
May all
beings throughout the ten directions, however many they may
be,
Always have happiness, free from illness;
May all beings
be in harmony with the aims of the dharma
And acheive what they
hope for.
May I perform the conduct of awakening
And
remember my lives during all states.
In all my successive lives,
from birth to death,
May I always be a
renunciate.
Following the victorious ones, may I train,
Bringing excellent conduct to perfection,
And engage in pure,
stainless moral conduct,
Which never lapses and is free from
faults.
In the languages of gods, the languages of nagas and
yakshas,
In the languages of kumbhandas and humans-
In however
many languages of beings there may be,
May I teach the dharma.
With gentleness may I exert myself in the paramitas.
May
I never forget bodhicitta.
May all wrongdoing and whatever
obscures
Be thoroughly purified.
May I be liberated from
karma, kleshas, and the work of maras,
And act for all beings in
the world
Like a lotus to which water does not cling,
Like the
sun and moon unhindered in space.
Throughout the directions
and reaches of the realms
May the suffering of the lower states
be pacified.
May all beings be placed in happiness;
May all
beings be benefitted.
May I bring awakened conduct to
perfection,
Engage in conduct that harmonizes with
beings,
Teach excellent conduct,
And perform these throughout
all future kalpas.
May I continuously be with those
Whose
actions accord with my own.
May our conduct and aspirations
Of
body, speech, and mind be the same.
May I always meet
with
Friends who wish to benefit me,
Those who teach excellent
conduct,
And may I never displease them.
May I always
directly see the victorious ones,
The protectors, surrounded by
bodhisattvas;
In future kalpas without tiring,
May I make vast
offerings to them.
May I retain the genuine dharma of the
victorious ones,
And cause the appearance of awakened
conduct;
Training in excellent conduct,
May I act in this way
throughout future kalpas.
When circling in all my
existences
May I develop inexhaustible merit and wisdom,
And
become an inexhaustible treasury of
Methods, knowledge, samadhi,
liberation, and virtues.
In a single atom there are realms as
numerous as all atoms;
In those realms reside infinite
buddhas
In the midst of bodhisattvas-
Beholding them, may I
perform awakened conduct.
Like that, in all directions
On
the breadth of just a hair
There are oceans of buddhas, as many
as in the three times, and oceans of realms-
May I act and be
engaged with them for oceans of kalpas.
A single instance of
a buddha's speech is a voice endowed with oceans of qualities,
It
has the pure qualities of the melodic speech of the victorious
ones,
And is the melodic speech that accords with the
inclinations of all beings-
May I always be engaged with the
buddhas' speech.
May I be engaged through the power of my
mind
In the inexhaustible melodic speech
Of the victorious
ones appearing in the three times
Who turn the dharma like a
wheel.
As all future kalpas are penetrated
May I also
penetrate them instantly;
May I be engaged in and penetrate, in
each part of an instant,
As many kalpas as are in the three
times.
May I see instantly
Those lions among humans
appearing in the three times.
May I always be engaged in their
sphere of experience
Through the power of illusion-like
liberation.
May I produce in a single atom
All the
arrays of realms there are in the three times;
May I be engaged
with the arrays of the buddha realms
In all directions
always.
Those lamps of the worlds who have not yet
appeared
Will gradually awaken, turn the dharma wheel,
And
demonstrate nirvana, the final peace-
May I go into the presence
of those protectors.
Through the power of swift
miracles,
The power of the yana, the door,
The power of
conduct endowed with qualities,
The power of all-pervasive
love,
The power of virtuous merit,
The power of wisdom free
from attachments,
And the powers of knowledge, methods, and
samadhi
May I perfectly accomplish the power of
awakening.
May I purify the power of karma,
Conquer the
power of kleshas,
Render the power of maras powerless,
And
perfect the power of excellent conduct.
May I purify oceans
of realms,
Liberate oceans of beings,
Behold oceans of
dharma,
Realize oceans of wisdom,
Purify oceans of
conduct,
Perfect oceans of aspiration prayers,
Offer to oceans
of buddhas,
And act without weariness throughout oceans of
kalpas.
All the victorious ones who appear in the three
times
Awaken into enlightenment through the excellent
conduct
Of various aspiration prayers for awakened
conduct-
May I perfect all of these.
The eldest son of the
victorious ones
Is called Samantabhadra by name.
I dedicate
all this virtue
That I may act with skill similar to
his.
May I also be equal to him
In his skill in excellent
dedications
For pure body, speech and mind,
Pure conduct and
pure realms.
May I act according to the aspiration prayers of
Manjushri
In order to perform excellent virtue.
Not tiring
throughout future kalpas,
May I perfect these
activities.
May my conduct be without measure,
May my
qualities also be measureless.
Remaining within conduct without
measure,
May I send out emanations.
Sentient beings extend
As far as the limits of space;
May my aspiration prayers
extend
As far as the limits of their karma and
kleshas.
Though someone adorns with precious jewels
The
infinite realms of the ten directions, and offers these to the
buddhas,
Or offers the supreme happiness of gods and men
For
kalpas as numerous as atoms in the realms,
The genuine merit of
someone who
Hears this king of dedications,
Who is inspired
towards supreme awakening,
And gives rise to faith in it is more
supreme.
Whoever makes this Aspiration Prayer for Excellent
Conduct
Will be free from the lower realms,
And free from
negative friends;
They will see Amithaba soon,
Acquire all
benefits and be sustained in happiness-
With all of this their
life will go well.
Before long they will become
Just like
Samantabhadra.
Whatever has been done through the power of
not knowing,
All evil, even the five acts of immediate
consequence,
Will be quickly purified
By those who recite
this Excellent Conduct.
They will possess wisdom, beauty and
the signs,
Be of good family with fine complexion.
They will
not be overpowered by maras or tirthikas;
The three worlds will
make offerings to them.
They will soon go before the bodhi
tree,
And having gone there, they will sit to benefit
beings,
Awaken into enlightenment, turn the dharma wheel,
And
subdue all maras and their hordes.
The full ripening for
those who are involved with, teach or recite
This Aspiration
Prayer for Excellent Conduct
Is known only by the
buddhas;
Without any doubt, it is supreme enlightenment.
I
dedicate all this virtue,
Following and emulating
The warrior
Manjushri who is omniscient,
As is Samantabhadra.
With
dedications, praised as supreme
By the victorious ones who appear
in the three times,
I dedicate all my roots of virtue
Towards
excellent conduct.
When the time of death comes for me
May
all my obscurations vanish;
Seeing Amitabha directly
May I go
to his realm of Sukhavati.
Having gone there, may I
actualize
All these aspiration prayers,
Fulfill them
completely,
And benefit beings as long as worlds exist.
May I be born within a beautiful lotus
In that excellent
and joyous realm of the victorious one;
And from the victorious
one Amitabha directly
May I receive a prophecy.
Having
received his prophecy there,
May I benefit all beings in the ten
directions
Though the power of my mind
With many billions of
emanations.
Through whatever slight virtue I have
accumulated
By making this Aspiration Prayer for Excellent
Conduct,
May the virtue of the aspiration prayers for all
beings
Be accomplished instantly.
By the infinite and
genuine merit,
Attained through dedicating The Aspiration Prayer
for Excellent Conduct,
May all beings drowning in the rivers of
sufferings
Reach the place of Amitabha.
May this King of
Aspiration Prayers
Bring about the supreme aim and benefit for
all infinite beings;
Completing this scripture adorned by
Samantabhadra,
May the lower realms be empty.
This completes The King of Aspiration Prayers,
The Aspiration for Excellent Conduct.
Translated
[from Sanskrit], edited, and finalized by the
Indian scholars
Dzina Mitra and Surendra Bodhi
with the lotsawa and great
editor, Bande Yeshe De and others.
Translated into English under the guidance of
Khenpo Tsultrim Gyatso
by Elizabeth Callahan. August 1994. ©
Elizabeth Callahan 1994. |
