Benefits of the Teacher of the Law

“Moreover, Constant Exertion, if good men or good women accept and uphold this sutra, if they read it, recite it, explain and preach it, or transcribe it, they will succeed in gaining eight hundred nose benefits with which to purify their faculty of smell so that they can detect all different varieties of fragrances from top to bottom and in the inner and outer parts of the major world system, the fragrance of sumana flowers, jatika flowers, mallika flowers, champaka flowers, patala flowers, red lotus flowers, blue lotus flowers, white lotus flowers, the fragrance of flowering trees, fruit trees, sandalwood, aloes, tamala leaves, and tagara, as well as incense blended from a thousand, ten thousand ingredients, powdered incense, pellet incense, or paste incense. One who upholds this sutra, while dwelling here, will be able to distinguish all these."