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be loved and supported by divinities. If he conducts business he
will not have any difficulties. If he leaves home to cultivate the
Bodhisattva's Way, keeping the precepts and praying three times
a day, he will achieve all his wishes and gain full wisdom. He
will easily attain the rank of supreme right knowledge in his
lifetime.
After completing ten thousands Dharani recitations, in his
dream, he will see Buddhas and Bodhisattvas. He will see himself
throwing up black matter or black rice (black rice represents bad
karma; this means the elimination of sins and the start of having
blessings). If his sins are very serious, then after completion of
twenty thousands Dharani recitations, he will see paradise, or the
temple (meaning one is a saint), or himself going up the mountain
or on a tall tree (going up means he is not tied down by karma) or
taking a bath in a great pond (elimination of the dusts of sins and
purification of the body), or flying high in the sky (absence of
karma renders the body weightless.) He can also see himself
enjoying pleasures with the heavenly women (mutual enjoyment
due to the ability of maintaining the corresponding good root).
He may see someone lecturing the Dharma that benefits
him and fills him with joy. He may see his hair being pulled out,
or his head being shaved (it is the custom of the infidels countries
in the West (Hindu) and it represents the uprooting of worries), or
he is eating rice with milk and drinking holy water (symbolic of
the achievement of good deeds in the world, and of achieving and
receiving a Dharma status out of this world). He may see himself
crossing a big river, or ocean (end of sorrows). Or he is ascending
to a lion seat (achieving the rank of Dharma King), or seeing a
Bodhi tree (the form of the Dharma), or getting in a boat (boat of
Wisdom to reach the shore of liberation).