The Vast, Great, Perfect, Full, Unimpeded Great Compassion Heart Dharani Of The Thousand-hand, Thousand-eye Who Regards The Sounds Of The World

By The Venerable Master Hsuan Hua

 

"The great mantra of great compassion penetrates heaven and earth.

One hundred recitations for one thousand days causes ten kings to rejoice.

Its great compassion and kindness cure all disease.

And so an announcement is projected high upon the offense screen."

 

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 CompassionMantra.

Most important, it can cure ilness. 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 offences, 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 compassioon Mantra and has already detroyed 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.