Just as rivers full of water entirely fill up the sea,

So will what’s here been given bring blessings to departed spirits.

May all your hopes and all your longings

Come true in no long time.

May all your wishes be fulfilled

Like on the fifteenth day the moon

Or like a bright and shining gem.

May all misfortunes be avoided,

May all illness be dispelled,

May you never meet with dangers,

May you be happy and live long.

For those who are respectful,
Who always honour the elders,
Four are the qualities which will increase:
Life, beauty, happiness and strength.

May every blessing come to be

And all good spirits guard you well.

Through the power of all Buddhas

May you always be at ease.

May every blessing come to be

And all good spirits guard you well.

Through the power of all Dhammas

May you always be at ease.

May every blessing come to be

And all good spirits guard you well.

Through the power of all Saṅghas

May you always be at ease.

May you be freed from all disease, safe from all torment, beyond all animosity and at peace.

May all misfortunes be avoided…

The enlightened person, having given life, strength, beauty, quick-wittedness –
The intelligent person, a giver of happiness – attain happiness themselves.
Having given life, strength, beauty, happiness, and quick-wittedness,
They have a long life and status wherever they arise.

For one with confidence, realising the supreme Dhamma to be supreme.
With confidence in the Buddha, unsurpassed in deserving offerings.
With confidence in the supreme Dhamma, the happiness of dispassion and calm.
With confidence in the supreme Saṅgha, unsurpassed as a field of merit.
Having given gifts to the supreme, one develops supreme merit,
supreme long life and beauty, status, honor, happiness and strength.
Having given to the supreme, the intelligent person, firm in the supreme Dhamma,
Whether becoming a deva or a human being, rejoices, having attained the supreme.

“He gave to me, he acted on my behalf, and he was my relative, companion, friend.” Offerings should be given for the dead when one reflects thus on what was done in the past. For no weeping or sorrowing or any kind of lamentation benefit the dead whose relatives keep acting in that way.

But when this offering is given, well-placed in the Sangha, it works for their long-term benefit and they profit immediately. In this way the proper duty to relatives has been shown and great honour has been done to the dead and the monks have been given strength: You have acquried merit that is not small.

Those with discernment, responsive, free from stinginess,
give in the proper season. Having given in the proper season
with hearts inspired by the Noble Ones straightened.
Such – their offering bears an abundance.
Those who rejoice in that gift, or give assistance,
they too have a share of the merit, and the offering is not depleted by that.
Therefore, with an unhesitant mind, one should give where the gift bears great fruit.
Merit is what establishes living beings in the next life.

Through the power of the Triple Gem, through the majesty of the Triple Gem,
May suffering, disease, danger, animosity, sorrow, adversity, misfortune –
obstacles without number – vanish without a trace.
Triumph, success, wealth, gain, safety, luck, happiness and strength,
glory, long life, beauty, fortune and status increase,
A lifespan of a hundred years, and success in your livelihood: may they be yours.

Through the power of all the Buddhas, the power of all the Dhamma, the power of all the Saṅgha, the treasure of the Buddha, the treasure of the Dhamma, the treasure of the Saṅgha, the power of the 84,000 Dhamma groups, the power of the Tripitaka, the power of the Victor’s disciples:

May all your diseases, all your fears, all your obstacles, all your dangers, all your bad visions, all your bad omens be destroyed.

May there be always be an increase of long life, wealth, glory, status, strength, beauty and happiness.

May suffering, disease, danger, animosity, sorrow, adversity, misfortune – obstacles without number – vanish through the majesty of the Triple Gem.

Triumph, success, wealth, gain, safety, luck, happiness, strength, glory, long life, beauty, fortune and status increase, a lifespan of a hundred years, and success in your livelihood: May they be yours.

May there be every good blessing, may all the devas protect you, through the power of all the Buddhas, Dhamma and Saṅgha, may you always be well.

Through the power of the thirty-two marks of the Great Man belonging to the Blessed One, the Worthy One, the Rightly Self-awakened One, who through his accumulation of merit is endowed with glory, steadfastness of intent, majesty, victorious power, great might, countless great virtues, who settles all dangers and obstacles,

through the power of his eighty minor characteristics,
of his hundred and eight blessings,
of his sixfold radiance,
of the aura surrounding his head,
of his ten perfections, ten higher perfections and ten ultimate perfections,
of his virtue, concentration and discernment,
of the Buddha, Dhamma and Saṅgha,
of his majesty, might and strength,
of his Dhammas that can be known,
of the 84,000 divisions of his Dhamma,
of his nine transcendent Dhammas,
of his eightfold path,
of his meditative attainments,
of his six cognitive skills,
of his knowledge of the four noble truths,
of his knowledge of the ten strengths,
of his omniscience,
of his goodwill, compassion, empathetic joy and equanimity,
of all protective chants,
of refuge in the Triple Gem,

may all your diseases, griefs, misfortunes, pains, distresses and dispairs be destroyed,
may all obstructions be destroyed, may all your resolves succeed,
may you live long, always attaining a hundred years.

May the protective devas of the sky, the mountains, the forests, the land, the River Ganges, and the great ocean always protect you.

They ward off cold and heat and beasts of prey from there
And creeping things and gnats and rains in the wet season.
When the dreaded hot wind arises, that is warded off.
To meditate and obtain insight in a refuge and at ease:

A dwelling-place is praised by the Awakened One
as chief gift to an Order.
Therefore a wise man, looking to his own weal,
Should have charming dwelling-places built
So that those who have heard much can stay therein.

To these food and drink, raiment and lodgings
He should give, to the upright, with mind purified.
(Then) these teach him Dhamma dispelling every ill;
He, knowing that Dhamma,
here attains Nibbāna, free of taints.

Generosity, kind words, beneficial action,
and treating all consistently, in line with what each deserves:
These bonds of fellowship in the world are like the linchpin in a moving cart.
Now, if these bonds of fellowship were lacking, a mother would not receive the honor and respect owed by her child,
nor would a father receive what his child owes him.
But because the wise show regard for these bonds of fellowship,
they achieve greatness and are praised.

“My wealth has been enjoyed, my dependents supported, protected from calamities by me.
I have given lofty offerings, and performed the five oblations.
I have provided for the virtuous, the restrained, leaders of the holy life.
For whatever aim a wise householder would desire wealth,
that aim have I attained. I have done what will not lead to future distress.”
When this is recollected by a mortal, a person established in the Dhamma of the Noble Ones,
He is praised in this life and, after death, rejoices in heaven.

One whose faith in the Tathāgata
Is unshaken and established well,
Whose virtue is beautiful,
The Noble Ones enjoy and praise;

Whose trust is in the Saṅgha,
Who sees things rightly as they are,
It is said that not in vain
And undeluded is their life.

To virtue and to faith,
To trust to seeing truth,
To these the wise devote themselves,
The Buddha’s teaching in their mind.

In whatever place a wise person makes his dwelling,
there providing food for the virtuous, the restrained, leaders of the holy life –
He should dedicate that offering to the devas there.
They receiving honor, will honor him; being respected, will show him respect.
As a result, they will feel sympathy for him, like that of a mother for her child.
A person with whom the devas sympathize always sees things go auspiciously.