A Commentary on "Daily Mantras"

Mantra to Bless the Rosary

It is very good to recite these mantras first thing in the morning to make your life meaningful and to increase all the merits you collect during the day.

ༀ་རུ་ཙི་ར་མ་ཎི་པྲ་ཝརྟ་ཡ་ཧཱུཾ། 

OṂ RUTSIRA MAṆI PRAWARTAYA HŪṂ   (7x)

Recite this mantra seven times and then blow on your rosary. All the recitations you do of the secret mantras taught by the Tathagata are multiplied one hundred sextillion times (10²³). This is taught in Unfathomable Mansion of Increasing Jewels.

If you recite OṂ RUTSIRA MAṆI PRAWARTAYA HŪṂ seven times and then blow on your rosary, the power of any mantra taught by Buddha that you recite, such as OṂ MAṆI PADME HŪṂ or the Vajrasattva mantra, is increased ten million times one hundred billion times a hundred thousand. Although other mantras can be used to bless the rosary in order to increase the power of mantra recitation, the benefits of this one are unbelievable.

This mantra was taught in the sutra Unfathomable Mansion of Increasing Jewels. The name of the sutra is mentioned here to show that this mantra came from Buddha. Buddha taught it so that sentient beings’ merits could be increased. Due to the power of Buddha’s compassionate wish to bring sentient beings to enlightenment, reciting even one mantra can become very powerful.

I asked a Sanskrit expert how the Sanskrit syllable HŪṂ should be pronounced. He said that although it can be pronounced HŪṂ, it is better to say HŪNG, as if it had the Tibetan letter NGA at the end rather than the letter MA. However, I don’t know what other people who know Sanskrit would say about that.