A New Mantra and its Benefits

A New Mantra and its Benefits

Date Posted:
August 2013

Rinpoche advised the benefits of the following mantra. [See also Precious Mantras.]

AH AAH SHA SA MA HA

Recite this mantra to liberate those who are born in the lower realms. You can place the mantra on the dying body, to purify that being’s negative karma and transfer the consciousness to a pure land or a higher realm.

This mantra purifies and blesses the environment. Like the mani mantra (OM MANI PADME HUM), just seeing this mantra purifies the five uninterrupted karmas and defilements, and plants the seed of enlightenment. This means that it causes us to attain the whole path, from guru devotion up to enlightenment. We are able to actualize the whole path in the minds of sentient beings, especially the compassionate mind of bodhicitta, and in this way, we can bring countless beings to the peerless happiness of full enlightenment.

Put this mantra in your house where people can see it—in the dining room or kitchen, inside or outside. You can also put it by the road or on signposts. Just by seeing this mantra, sentient beings move closer to enlightenment and their negative karma is purified, even without their knowledge.