KARMIC OBSTRUCTIONS
CAN BE PURIFIED, SIXTEEN
" Moreover Subhuti, if a good man or good woman who accepts, upholds,
reads or recites this Sutra, is ridiculed, that is because that person
has karmic offenses from past lives which destine him for the evil paths.
But as a result of the ridicule he receives from others in his present
life, his previous karmic offenses are destroyed and he will attain Anuttarasamyaksambodhi.
"Subhuti, I recall that in the past, for immeasurable asamkhyeya kalpas,
prior to Dipankara Buddha, I encountered eighty-four trillion nayutas
of Buddhas. I made offerings to and served them all without exception.
If there are others in the Final Period who can accept, uphold, read or
recite this Sutra, the merit and virtue they obtain is a hundred times
more, a thousand times more, ten thousand times more, or a million times
more than the merit and virtue I gained from making offerings to all those
Buddhas. It is so great that it exceeds all calculations and comparisons.
"Subhuti, if I were to explain in detail the merit and virtue of a good
man or good woman, who in the Final Period, accepts, upholds, reads or
recites this Sutra, then those who hear might go insane or disbelieve.
Subhuti, you should know that the principles in this Sutra are inconceivable.
So too are the rewards it generates."
