Benefits of Guru Rinpoche mantra

The Vajra Guru Mantra is the mantra associated with Guru Rinpoche, also known as Padmasambhava.
Originally it was concealed during the time Guru Rinpoche was living and teaching in Tibet and later re-discovered by the great tertön Karma Lingpa in 14thcentury, who wrote it on sheets of golden paper.

It is known as “Syllable by syllable commentary and explanation of benefits and advantages of Vajra Guru mantra. ”

It begins with an invocation and continues with a dialog between Yeshe Tsogyal, the spiritual consort of Guru Rinpoche and Padmasambhava himself. And so Yeshe Tsogyal, the embodiment of ultimate wisdom started:

I, Lady Yeshe Tsogyal, after performing offerings to your inner and outer mandala, would like to ask the following question:
Oh, great teacher, Pema Jungne, you have been so extremely kind to us, Tibetan People, leaving a heritage behind you that will benefit us now and in future lives. Your kindness is so great that we have never experienced anything like that before, nor will we experience anything similar in the future. And even though I am a humble person, I have no doubt that I will reach enlightenment.
In the future, sentient beings will have a very limited awareness and many things will occupy their minds and create confusion for them. Their characters will be rough and difficult to tame. They will evolve many wrong views on Dharma. Particularly, there will come times when the confusion of individuals will spread to teachings on the Secret Mantra and unsurpassable levels of tantra. At that time, all sentient beings will suffer heavily from the disease, famine and war. Due to the spread of these three calamities, China, Tibet and Mongolia will experience riots like when an anthill is destroyed and there will be a time of great suffering for the Tibetan people.
Though you have explained at length about many skillful means to escape from those circumstances, sentient beings in the future will have no time to practice. Although they might have some slight inclinations to practice, they will face great obstacles. They will experience a great disharmony. They will be conflicting and as a result their behavior will become very impure. Bad times like these will be very difficult to avoid. When it will happen, what will be benefits and advantages of those who will completely rely on Vajra Guru Mantra practice?
I beg you to explain it for the benefit of sincere devotees of the future, who may not be able to hear your words, so you should explain it for them now.

Then the great master Pema Jungne replied to her:
 

Oh faithful lady, what you said is very true. These times will come in the future for sentient beings and they can benefit immensely from Vajra Guru Mantra, both immediately and in long term. Since my spiritual instructions and the methods of practice that I offer are immeasurable, I have hidden a large number of Terma, hidden treasures, in water, rocks, in the sky and so on. When the times of destruction will come, it will be very difficult to find these teachings. It will be very difficult to fulfill the necessary conditions to be able to reveal these teachings. This will be a sign that the collective merits of beings are on decline.

However, if , during those times, this essential mantra, Vajra Guru Mantra will be repeated as much as possible – a hundred times, thousand times, ten thousand times, hundred thousand times, million times, hundred million times and so on, if it will be repeated in holy places, temples, next to large rivers, in areas where gods and demons abound, if it will be chanted in those places by tantric practitioners with pure samaya, by people with monastic ordination, who maintain their vows in purity, by men and women who have faith in the teachings, if they will grow their Bodhichitta on a grand scale by reciting this mantra, then the benefits and advantages, the power of such practice will be truly inconceivable.

It will protect from all negative forces of disease, famine, unrest, bad harvests and all bad omens in all countries of the world, so that there will be plenty of water for agriculture and for human and animal life, and all regions and the air will experience conditions of prosperity and good luck.
Those who will practice this way will meet me again and again, in this life, in their future lives and in intermediate state between death and rebirth. It’s most easy to see me for those whose consciousness is awakened. Those with a lesser attainment I meet again and again in their dreams. Gradually moving towards perfection through various paths and stages of their practice, they will definitely reach the fullness of absolute awareness in my Pure Land in the continent of Ngayab. Have no doubt about it!

If you will recite this mantra a hundred times in a day, only one hundred times a day, without interruption, you will become attractive to others and without an effort you will get food, wealth and all that is necessary in life.

If one will read this mantra a thousand or ten thousand times every day, he or she will become very charismatic and will exert a positive influence to people and will have a great spiritual power and realization of many blessings.

If somebody repeats it a hundred thousand or million times regularly, he will be able to provide an immeasurable benefit to sentient beings, just like he would wish to.

If somebody will recite this mantra three or seven million times, he will be forever inseparable from Buddhas of three times and inseparable from me myself. All gods and demons in all six realms will serve him and offer their praises.

Only absolutely perfect beings will obtain the rainbow body and the final attainment in this very life. For more mediocre practitioners the aspects of mother and child energies of radiant light will merge at the moment of death. But also the most average people will see my face at the state of Bardo, the after-death state, when they will experience the appearances of different liberating Buddha-aspects and they will be able to reborn in the land of Ngayab and bring an immeasurable benefit for living beings from there. Thus Guru Rinpoche responded to Yeshe Tsogyal.

Yeshe Tsogyal said:
Oh, great master, it was very kind of you to tell us about the huge and immeasurable benefits of the spiritual energy of this mantra. However, it would be of immeasurable benefit for sentient beings of the future to receive a more detailed explanation. For this reason I beg you to reveal more detailed meaning of each syllable of this mantra.
 

Answering this request Guru Rinpoche said:
Oh, daughter of good family, the Vajra Guru mantra is not only my mantra, it invokes the essence or life force of all deities of four tantra classes, all nine yanas and the completeness of all 84000 Buddha teachings. It turns towards all Buddhas of three times, all gurus, yidams, dakas and dakinis, dharma protectors, etc. This mantra contains and completes the core essence of all these. How this can be true, you might ask me?! What is the reason all beings complete this mantra? Listen now carefully and keep this in mind. Read and read it again! Write it down and teach it, and show it to everyone, for the benefit of all sentient beings

OM AH HUNG BENZA GURU PEMA SIDDHI HUNG
OM AH HUNG purify obscurations which arise from the three mental poisons: desire/attachment, aversion, and ignorance
BENZA purifies obscurations which arise from anger
GURU purifies obscurations which arise from pride
PEMA purifies obscurations which arise from desire/attachment
SIDDHI purifies obscurations which arise from envy/jealousy
HUNG in a general way purifies obscurations which arise from all emotional afflictions

could be imagined in a physical form, the whole world would not be enough to grasp the merit. All sentient beings, who see, hear or remember this mantra will join forever with enlightened ones with unlimited inner wisdom.
 

If, however, these words of wisdom regarding Guru Rinpoche mantra would not lead sentient beings to the goal they wish to attain, as I promised, then I, Pema Jungne, am truly deceiving sentient beings.
 

But I am not lying, so you should practice accordingly to my instructions.
Even if you are not able to recite the mantra for any reason, you should place it on top of the flag of victory, so when the wind touches it, it will bring liberation to sentient beings, no doubt. Alternatively you can write it on clay or carve in stone. This way you will protect the path on which these syllables are placed and will protect the region from evil effects.
 

You can also write this mantra with a golden ink on a dark-blue paper and wear it as an amulet. When you die, if this amulet will burn together with your body, you will see the rainbow lights and your consciousness will be transferred to the realms of Supreme Bliss. The benefits of writing, reading or reciting it are beyond imagination. After explaining all benefits of Guru Rinpoche mantra for the benefit of sentient beings in the future I will hide this treasury. Only the one with very good karma will be able to find it.