This audio features Lama Zopa Rinpoche reciting the Vajrasattva mantras. 

The purpose of life is to benefit other sentient beings and the greatest benefit you can offer them is to liberate them from their suffering and its causes. To make that possible, you have to purify all the negative karma and defilements you have collected over your beginningless rebirths and accumulate extensive merit. 

Lama Zopa Rinpoche said: "If you do Vajrasattva practice, even just reciting the long mantra 21 times or the short mantra 28 times, and especially with the remedy of the four powers, it not only purifies today’s negative karma but also your past negative karma from this life and past lives, so there is no multiplication. Instead there is unbelievable, unbelievable profit. It makes the negative karma so much lighter. Depending on how you purify, and especially if you do the practice with bodhicitta and emptiness, that much incredible negative karma gets purified and you don’t have to experience the suffering result."

Rinpoche gave the lung of this mantra during the Heart Sutra teachings held at Tara Institute in Melbourne, Australia, March 2000.

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Supplemental Material

• Vajrasattva Mantras and Meaning PDF
• A Short Vajrasattva Meditation: Purification with the Four Opponent Powers PDF
• Vajrasattva Image

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