Shurangama Mantra with Verses and Commentary

by Venerable Tripitaka Master Hsuan Hua

106. MẬT RỊ TRỤ

密唎柱

 

 

Kình sơn trì xử biến hư không

Đông phương Kim Cang trấn ma quân

Bát vạn tứ thiên thường ủng hộ

Năng sử hành nhân nhập đại trung.

 

擎山持杵徧虛空

東方金剛鎮魔軍

八萬四千常擁護

能使行人入大中

MI LI JU 

MẬT RỊ TRỤ

Carrying mountains, brandishing pestles, pervading empty space, 

The Vajras in the East subdue the demon troops. 

Eighty-four thousand of them constantly protect, 

And cause the practitioner to enter the Great Center. 

 

COMMENTARY: 

 

The Five Great Heart Mantras are the heart mantras of the Buddhas of the five directions. They destroy the mantras and magic of demons and those of outside ways. It doesn't matter what tricks or deviant dharmas they have, if you recite the Five Great Heart Mantras, you can break up the demons not only among people, but also the heavenly demons and those of outside ways. Recite it and they can't disturb you. All their tricks will not work. In the Shurangama Mantra, the Five Great Heart Mantras are extremely important, efficacious and inconceivable. 

 

MẬT RỊ TRỤ means "solid vajra." It is one of the 108 Vajra Protectors in the East. This is the Vajra Division Heart Mantra. So it says, "Carrying mountains, brandishing pestles, pervading empty space, / the Vajras in the East subdue the demon troops." There are 84,000 Vajra Secret Trace Dharma Protectors in the Eastern Vajra Division. They conquer all heavenly demons and outside ways. When they subdue them, it is easy to be vigorous in one's cultivation. In cultivation you must have inner merit and outer virtue. Merit and virtue are of primary importance. 

 

Eighty-four thousand of them constantly protect. They always protect you. 

 

And cause the practitioner to enter the Great Center. They cause the cultivator to attain the Great Shurangama Samadhi and always give rise to genuine wisdom.