16. Purificating even the Bad Karma of Past Lives

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16. Purificating even the Bad Karma of Past Lives

①
Subhuti! There can be one who is humiliated
even though he accepts, recites and preaches the Sutra to others. 

Through the sufferings of humiliation in this very life, 
the sins of his past lives,

which might lead him to the evil realms in the next life, 

will be eliminated, 

allowing him to attain

the Utmost Right Enlightenment.

②
Subhuti! I had donated to 84,000 times of
millions of billions of trillions of Buddhas 

for hundreds of thousands of millions of billions 

of asamkhyas of kalpas very sincerely
before I was with Buddha Dipankara.

③
But my virtue is less than one hundredth, 
less than one thousandth,

less than one millionth, 

or less than one billionth 

of the virtue of one who accepts, recites,

and preaches the Sutra to others

in the age of decline of the Dharma. 

The latter virtue is beyond any comparison.

④
Subhuti! My listeners may become disturbed

or suspicious if I fully describe

the virtue of one who accepts, recites,

and preaches the Sutra to others 

in the age of decline of the Dharma.

⑤
Subhuti! The virtue of the Sutra is inconceivable.

Therefore the karma result of the Sutra is also inconceivable.