According to Lama Zopa Rinpoche, seeing the Mitrugpa mantra can benefit a dying person, the mantra can be put next to a dying person’s bedside where they can see it easily.  Lama Zopa Rinpoche said: “Mitrugpa is very powerful in degenerate times in purifying negative karma, particularly the negative karma of having broken vows, such as the eight Mahayana precepts, lay vows, or the vows of nuns and monks. Even if you believe in karma and reincarnation and do not generate heresy, you create the cause to be born in the animal realm as a naga if you break or degenerate your vows."

Mitrugpa mantra is also included in the collection of the Five Powerful Mantras for Liberating Sentient Beings from the Lower Realms, and the Ten Powerful Mantras for the Time of Death.

Listen to Lama Zopa Rinpoche reciting the Mitrugpa mantra.