When the vajradhara Lord of Mysteries had finished speaking thus, the World-honored One addressed him, saying, “Excellent, excellent, Lord of Mysteries! It is indeed excellent that you have asked the Tathāgata about this matter. You should listen attentively and consider it carefully as I now explain.”
The Lord of Mysteries said, “So be it, World-honored One. I am eager to listen.”
The Buddha addressed the Lord of Mysteries, [saying,] “One achieves accomplishment by means of the letter-gateway A. Either in a place inhabited by monks, or inside a mountain cave, or in a clean chamber one places the letter A on all one’s limbs and recites three lakṣa [times]. Then at the full of the moon one uses everything one has to make offerings until the bodhisattva Samantabhadra, Mañjuśrī, Vajradhara (i.e., Vajrapāṇi), and so on or other holy divinities appear before one and caress one’s head, exclaiming, ‘Excellent, practitioner!’ One should [then] bow down, make obeisance, and offer up argha water, whereupon one will achieve the samādhi of not forgetting the bodhi-mind. Again, if one repeatedly recites it with such lightness of body and mind, one will obtain purity of mind and purity of body wherever one is born. If one places [the letter A] on one’s ear and recites it, one will obtain purity of the organ of hearing. If one perfoms exhalation and inhalation with the letter-gateway A, meditating three times [daily], and if the practitioner is then able to maintain this, he will be longevous and live in the world for long eons. If he wishes to be loved and respected by a rāja (king) and so on, then he makes the person who is to be won over into the letter-gateway Ha, and giving him a padma flower and himself holding a śaṅkha, they look at each other, whereupon they will engender joy.”
--THE VAIROCANĀBHISAṂBODHI SUTRA
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