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possessing robust bodies, they will work to accomplish hundreds and thousands of
different activities on this earth. They will persevere. They will strive. They will perform
actions that lend strength. O Venerable Transcendent Victor, through these means
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Jambudvipa will be at peace, have good crops, prosper and abide in the state of serene joy.
It will be populated by many human beings. All beings in Jambudvipa will be happy and
will experience a myriad of joys. These beings will have great complexion, robust bodies,
charisma and strength. For the sake the King of Glorious Sutras, the Sublime Golden Light, I
will go towards the bhikshu, bhikshuni, upasaka or upasika who upholds this king of sutras
and who sits upon the Dharma seat.
Having gone there, for the well-being, happiness and sake of all sentient beings, and with
a very lucid mind, I will request those expounders to teach the King of Glorious Sutras, the
Sublime Golden Light at great length. Why? Because if the King of Glorious Sutras, the Sublime
Golden Light is clearly taught, then I, Drdha the earth goddess, along with my attendants,
will come to have intense luster and immense strength. The teaching will generate in our
bodies great strength, joyous resilience and might. Our bodies will gain excellence,
charisma and glory. O Venerable Transcendent Victor, I, Drdha the earth goddess will be
satisfied by this Dharma nectar. Upon obtaining great charisma, strength, perseverance and
might, the essential earth nutrients of this Jambudvipa of 7,000 will increase immensely.
The great earth will become lustrous. O Venerable Transcendent Victor, the beings who
rely on the earth will increase, grow and expand. They will become great. After beings who
live on this earth have become great, they will enjoy material well-being and a variety of
useful things. They will experience happiness. They will enjoy food and drink, various
dried fruits, clothes, bedding, dwellings, houses, palaces, parks, rivers, ponds, springs, lakes,
small lakes and water holes, such various resources and amenities that exist on earth, are
sourced from the earth and are earth dependent. Because of this, O Venerable
Transcendent Victor, all beings will be grateful and will repay my kindness. Undoubtedly,
they will respect, listen to, honor, venerate and worship the King of Glorious Sutras, the
Sublime Golden Light.
O Venerable Transcendent Victor, beings will leave from their separate homes and
separate clans in order to be in the presence of the expounder of the Dharma. Upon
arriving there, they will listen to the King of Glorious Sutras, the Sublime Golden Light. After
hearing it, they will return to their respective clans, houses, villages and towns. To those in
their homes and to one another they will say, Today we have heard the profound Dharma.
Today, we hold an inconceivable mass of merit. The act of listening to the Dharma has
delighted hundreds of thousands of millions of tathagatas. By listening to the Dharma
today, beings in the hells will be completely freed. Beings in the world of Yama, animals
and hungry ghosts will be completely freed too. By listening to the Dharma today, in the
future for many hundreds of thousands of rebirths, we will be reborn as gods and humans.
If those who reside in separate homes were to show other beings even just one example
from the King of Glorious Sutras, the Sublime Golden Light, or were to make other beings hear
just one chapter from the King of Glorious Sutras, the Sublime Golden Light, one account of
past events, the name of just one bodhisattva, the name of one tathagata, one stanza of
four lines, just one word or even just the name of the King of Glorious Sutras, the Sublime
Golden Light, or, O Venerable Transcendent Victor, if these different beings in various
places were to state this sutra s various lines of reasoning to another being, or make them
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hear or narrate an account, then Venerable Transcendent Victor, all those places will
become extremely lustrous. The various earth nutrients and resources will grow profusely
in those places for the sake of all beings, will increase and greatly expand. All beings in turn
will be in a state of well-being. They will have great wealth and resources and will be
inclined to generosity. In the Three Jewels they will have great faith.
After being addressed in this way, the Tathagata said this to the earth goddess Drdha: O,
Drdha the earth goddess, if any being hears even one word from the King of Glorious Sutras,
the Sublime Golden Light, then after dying from this world, they will be born among the gods
in the Heaven of the Thirty-Three. O earth goddess, in order to venerate the King of
Glorious Sutras, the Sublime Golden Light, if any being adorns those places by raising even a
single umbrella, a single flag or a single piece of cloth, those adorned places, O earth
goddess, will become divine palaces made of the seven jewels, adorned with every
ornament, amid the seven classes of gods dwelling in the desire realm. When those beings
transmigrate from this world of humans, they will be reborn in those divine palaces made
of the seven jewels. O earth goddess, those beings will be reborn seven times in each of the
divine palaces made of the seven jewels. They will experience inconceivable divine bliss.
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