(By Sadhadhammaransi Sayadaw U Kudalabhivamsa) – Translated by Terry Teza
1. Araham
Araham means that the Buddha had eradicated all the defilements (inner enemies). Therefore, when one recollect in mind, (Araham..Araham..Araham… ) one will be free from all kinds of dangers.
Whenever one is about to encounter imminent danger, is in the midst of danger or wish to preempt from any danger, one ought to recollect the ‘Araham quality of Lord Buddha.
Verse: One must recollect “Araham” in order to be free from dangers.
2. Samma-sambuddho,
Samma-sambuddho means that the Buddha is fully enlightened by himself. Therefore, when one recollect samma-sambuddho,
..samma-sambuddho..samma-sambuddho…) one will be able to understand the profound and complex things.
Whenever one wish to understand things that are hard to understand by ordinary people, one ought to recollect samma-sambuddho quality of Lord Buddha.
Verse: One must recollect samma-sambuddho in order to understand deep things.
3. Vijjacarana-sampanno – it means that the Buddha is acomplished complete knowledge and cobduct. Therefore, when one recollect vijjacarana-sampanno, one will be able to practice Virtue, Concerntration and Wisdom fully.
When one wish to practice Vipassana and realize different stages of insights till enlightenment , one ought to recollect samma-sambuddho quality of Lord Buddha.
Verse: One must recollect samma-sambuddho in order to accomplish in your practice.
(Translator’s comments:
This quality also means Buddha walk the talk. He says as he acts. He does what he says. The knowledge and conduct are both fully accomplished. Thus one wish to delivery what one say, ought to recollect this quality.)
5. Sugato
Sugato has two meanings:-
Buddha is spoken well.
Buddha has gone well to the noble destination of (Nibbana).
Therefore, when one recollect “Sugato”, one will be able to be effective in whatever one speak about and to reach the destination of your journey safely.
When one need to talk about important topic and one is travelling , one ought to recollect samma-sambuddho quality of Lord Buddha.
Verse: One must recollect Sugato in order to speak well and travel well.
5. Lokavidu
Lokavidu means Buddha is the knower of three worlds. Therefore, when one recollect this quality, one will know the worldly knowledge quickly and correctly when study it.
When one wish to excel in study of worldly knowledge or when exploring underground natural resources , one ought to recollect lokavidu quality of Lord Buddha.
Verse: One must recollect “vidu”, in order to know the worldly knowledge.
6. Anuttaro-purisa-dhammasarathi
Anuttaro-purisa-dhammasarathi means Buddha is incomparable in taming the untamed men, devas or animals. Therefore, when one recollect this quality, others will listen and follow your advices.
When one need to admonish or discipline young and disobedient children or students, one ought to recollect this anuttaro-purisa-dhammasarathi quality of Lord Buddha.
Verse: One must recollect “anutta” in order to teach those who are difficult to teach.
7. Sattha-deva-manussanam
Sattha-deva-manussanam means Buddha is the teacher and leader of devas and men.Therefore, when one recollect this quality, when you teach others any skill or knowledge, they will learn quickly.
Verse: One must recollect “Sattha” in order to teach others well.
8. Buddho
Buddho means Buddha realize the Four Noble Truths by himself as well as could lead others to realize it. Therefore, when one recollect this quality, one will understand any spiritual or worldly knowledge quickly.
Verse: One must recollect “Buddho” in order to learn well and quickly.
9. Bhagava
Bhagava means Buddha is endowed with special powers. The merits the Buddha had accumulated are much more than others. Therefore, when one recollect this quality, one will be able to fulfil the Welfares of oneself as well as others’ as one wishes.
Verse: One must recollect “Bhagava” in order to have complete fulfilment.
In this o recollect the different qualities of Lord Buddha, depending on the varying meaning of the qualities, ones will have various benefits from their recollection of these.
Sadhu! Sadhu! Sadhu!
ဘာသာျပန္သူ က်င့္ပုံ။
၁) အရဟံ ကိေလသာ အညစ္အေၾကးအားလုံးမွ ကင္းေဝးစင္ၾကယ္ေတာ္မူေသာ ျမတ္စြာဘုရား လို႔ ႏွလုံးသြင္း ( သုံးႀကိမ္စိတ္ထဲမွာရႊတ္ဆို)
၂) သတိေလးနဲ႔ ေျဖးေျဖးမွန္မွန္ “အရဟံ..အရဟံ..အရဟံ” ဆက္တိုက္ ပြားမ်ားေနပါ။
၃) အျခားအေတြးေတြဝင္ လာရင္ ဂုဏ္ေတာ္ ရဲ႕ အဓိပၸါယ္ကို ျပန္ရႊတ္ဆိုလို႔ရပါတယ္။(အရဟံ – ကိေလသာ အညစ္အေၾကးအားလုံးမွ ကင္းေဝးစင္ၾကယ္ေတာ္မူေသာ ျမတ္စြာဘုရား လို႔ ႏွလုံးျပန္သြင္း )
၄) သတိေလးနဲ႔ ေျဖးေျဖးမွန္မွန္ “အရဟံ..အရဟံ..အရဟံ” ဆက္တိုက္ ပြားမ်ားေနပါ။
၅)ပြားေနတဲ့စိတ္ ကေလး တေျဖးေျဖးစိတ္လာရင္ စိတ္မထြက္ေတာ့ပဲ ၾကည္လင္ေအးၿငိမ္းလာမွာပါ။
အရဟံ ႏုသာတိ- ” အရဟံ”တည္းဟူေသာ ဘုရားဂုဏ္ေတာ္၌ သတိကပ္၍ ဆက္ကာဆက္ကာ စိတ္ထဲမွာရႊတ္ဆိုေနျခင္း။ စဥ္းစားစရာမလို။ “အရဟံ”ဆိုေသာ အေတြးကေလးျဖစ္တိုင္းျဖစ္တိုင္း သိေနရင္ၿပီး၏။ သိလာလ်ွင္ ပို၍ပို၍ ဆက္ကာဆက္ကာ သိရန္ဆက္က်င့္ပါ။
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