Sunday, April 12, 2020

No.303 - Ratana Sutta


Ratana Sutta.
The benefits of reciting Ratana Sutta.
The great benefits are : overcome 3 calamities famine , war and diseases.
Translation :
Lying at the feet of Dipankara Buddha , the Bodhisattva Gotama expressed this desire and determination to strive for Buddhahood . For countless life since then He has striven for and achieved 10 Perfection , doing meritorious deeds for the benefit not only for himself but also for his relatives and the rest of the whole world. He won victory over 5 kinds of Maras and attained Full Enlightenment with the highest virtues and powers. Now let us hear these Noble virtues or attributes of the Buddha in mind and recite Ratana Sutta in the same way as Venerable Ananda recited in Vesali to wipe away the calamities.
The Ratana Sutta is treated with much reverence by the deves in all the univers. It was potent enough to wipe away all the calamities in Vesali.
Let us recite it now.
For the benefit of the whole world are suffering from covid- 19 .
May the whole world be free from covid-19 very soon.

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