The Mantra Destroying All the Negative Karmas and Defilements
Shortened version

I prostrate to the bodhisattva, the great sattva, the one who has great compassion, the superior Compassionate-Eye Looking One enriched with power.

This mantra destroying all the negative karma and defilements is taught by the Great Compassionate One from the Twenty-Seventh Chapter of Action from Fifty-Eight Tantra Liberating from Samsara:

Then, fully qualified foe destroyer gone beyond tathagata Limitless Light One (Amitabha) who is overlord to Dakini Enriched in the Power of Dance (Khadroma Kargyu Wangchug) said:

"Beyond the numberless, innumerable worlds of the eastern direction, there is what is called World Unforgettable. The delusions of the sentient beings who abide in that world are very gross. They are difficult to satisfy and very difficult to subdue. They engage in the ten non-virtues and in the five uninterrupted negative karmas. They give up the three higher trainings and carelessly use the offerings to the Triple Gem (offerings that were made with devotion which, when used carelessly, pollute the mind). In order to benefit these sentient beings, you should memorize this mantra destroying all the negative karmas and defilements. Keep this and read this. Reveal it to the evil ones and cherish this.

I prostrate to the Buddha Limitless Illumination
OM AMI DHE WA HRIH

I prostrate to the Buddha Detached Lotus One
OM BHRUM AYU HUM NI JAH

I prostrate to the Buddha Great Compassion
OM MANI PADME HUM¹

Prostrations to the fully qualified foe destroyer gone beyond, gone as it is, destroyer of the enemy, fully completed buddha, Victorious One who Is the Play Aspect of Lion.

Prostrations to the fully qualified foe destroyer gone beyond, gone as it is, destroyer of the enemy, fully completed buddha, Beam Always Superior Glorified Piled Victorious One.

Prostrations to the fully qualified foe destroyer gone beyond, gone as it is, destroyer of the enemy, fully completed buddha, whose Qualities Extremely Stabilized the Victorious Jewel Piled.

May my innate mantra be actualized!

OM BI PULA GARBHE MANI PRA BHE / TA THA GATA DHARI SHANI / MANI MANI SUPRABHE BIMALA SANGARA GAMBHIRA HUM HUM JVALA JVALA / BUDDHA BILOKITE GUHYA / ADHISHTHITE GARBHE SVAHA / PADMA DHARA AMOGA JAYATI CHURU CHURU SVAHA

May I whose name is .(insert name). completely purify all the negative karmas and defilements collected from beginningless rebirth in samsara, the ripening aspect in the evil actions, disturbing thoughts, delusions, sufferings, and all the collections of negative imprints, and may I quickly achieve the state of enlightenment.

Sons and daughters of the race and any other transmigratory beings, if one recites this mantra every day 128 times it will destroy all negative karmas and defilements.

Benefits

It has the power to destroy thirteen disharmonious things. What are these thirteen?

1. One does not get harmed by fire.
2. One does not get harmed by water (floods and so forth).
3. One does not fall down precipices.
4. Roofs do not fall down on oneself.
5. One does not get chased away by winds (hurricanes, tornadoes and so forth).
6. One does not get harmed by poisons.
7. One does not get harmed by things mixed with poisons (contaminated food and so forth).
8. One does not get harmed by the spirit De (epilepsy, fits).
9. One does not get harmed by black magic.
10. One does not get harmed by untimely death.
11. One does not get harmed by war.
12. One does not get very severe sicknesses (epidemics).
13. One does not experience being sentenced to death by kings (executed).

Other than that, one receives thirteen qualities. What are they?

1. One's body whether as a son or daughter of the race will be beautiful.
2. One's voice will be sweet, enchanting.
3. One will generate extraordinary concentration in the mental continuum.
4. One will be able to do unimaginable works for sentient beings.
5. One will have no resistance, obstacles to all the activities.
6. All one's ripening aspects, karma, will be purified (such as rebirth as a hell being, hungry ghost, animal).
7. One will have an unimaginable (huge)entourage.
8. One will have inexhaustible enjoyments.
9. One will have a long life.
10. One will not have resistance to all the scriptures.
11. One will make offerings to all the tathagatas.
12. One will become a child of all the buddhas (a bodhisattva).
13. All one's hopes and wishes will be completed.

So, like this, thirteen disharmonious things will be destroyed and you will achieve thirteen benefits. Beyond this life, you will be reborn in Sukhavati, the Blissful World (Amitabha Buddha's pure realm) and you will achieve the result of no-returning.

If you do not get these thirteen qualities, then I, myself, (i.e., the Compassionate Buddha) would be cheating the Buddha Destroyed Qualified Gone Beyond One.

Translated by Kyabje Zopa Rinpoche, Kachoe Dechen Ling, Aptos, October 2001. Scribes Vens. Sarah Thresher and Holly Ansett. Lightly edited at FPMT Education Dept., by Ven. Constance Miller, December 2001. This is the abbreviated version of this text. A complete version is also available.

¹ There three Buddha's names are inserted here from the explanation of how to do the practice that follows the benefits of the mantra as Kyabje Zopa Rinpoche's suggestion, since they should be recited before reciting the main mantra.

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