Jaya
Paritta - Recital for Invoking Victory
The
recital of the Jaya Paritta is to gain protection, security, and
victory. The translation given here has been rendered to convey note of
the literary rather than the literal meaning of some Pali
words.
Homage
to the Buddha, the Exalted, the Worthy, the fully Enlightened One,
possessed of glory, strength, wisdom, splendour, victory, success, great
psychic powers, limitless great virtues, merits abundant, and capable of
repelling all kinds of perils.
Verily,
may all your illnesses, sorrows, dangers, misery, anguish and
restlessness vanish, may all your wishes be fulfilled; may you live long
and have longevity blessed with the majesty of the thirty two signs and
eighty secondary signs of the Great Teacher, the one hundred and eight
auspicious signs, the six coloured rays, the aura of the Buddha, the ten
high virtues, the ten higher virtues, the ten crowning virtues,
magnificent with morality, concentration and wisdom.
May
you also live long with the grace of the Buddha, the fully Enlightened
One, the Dhamma, His noble teaching, the Sangha (His disciples)
who live in splendour with psychic powers, energy, right view, eighty
four thousand sections of the Dhamma, nine supramundane ideal states,
the Eightfold Path, the eight mental stages of meditation, six super
knowledges, sympathy, compassion, kindliness, equanimity, all (thirty)
principl virtues under the refuge of the Triple Gem.
May
guardian deities of the sky, the mountains, the forests, the earth, the
lakes, the rivers and the great oceans defend you.
With
the grace of the Buddha, Dhamma and Sangha, the Triple Gem, eighty four
thousand sections of the Dhamma, the Tripitaka, the holy disciples of
the Buddha, may all your illnesses, fears, perils, dangers, bad omens
and misfortunes be destroyed.
May
you always be a cultivator of longevity, riches, glory, fame, strength,
appearance and comfort.
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