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Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva said to Brahma:
Brahma! To get rid of disasters caused by ghosts, spin a
five-color thread and make it into a string. Recite the Dharani of
Great Compassion five times first, then twenty one times, tying a
knot on the string. Wear it on the neck or put in a purse and carry
it with you. Untold numbers of Buddhas in the past have given
the compassion Dharani to help religious people who do not have
enough merits from the six virtues to have enough, i.e. people
whose seed for enlightenment has not yet developed, people who
are aspiring to be certified to the rank of Sound Hearer, or the
Deities and Immortals in the great heaven who are waiting to
become awakened to the enlightened state of superior realization.
If a person does not have faith in the Great Vehicle School, this
powerful Dharani will give rise to the seed of faith and make it
grow. Also all his wishes will be fulfilled through the power of
my compassion.
Anything the practitioner of the Dharani says, good words
or bad words will be heard as the pure Dharma Doctrine to all the
celestial ghosts and Deities, the infidels, Dragons, Demons, and
Genies. They will respect him as a Buddha. One must know that
a person who recites this Dharani is considered having the
Dharma body because ninety-nine trillion Buddhas treasure him.
He is known as the store of brightness because the light of all
Buddhas shines on him. He is himself the store of compassion
because he uses the Dharani to help beings. He is the store of
wonderful Dharmas because he collects all the Dharanis. He is
the store of meditation because hundreds of thousands of
samadhis are present in him. He is the store of emptiness because
he uses the wisdom of emptiness to watch over living beings.
He is the store of bravery because Deities, Dragons, and Genies
always support him. He is the store of wonderful words because
his mouth always speaks the Dharani. He is the store of