Loosely translated.
The dedication of merits is a practice at the end of puja. But really we don’t know if anyone, the targeted recipient would receive it.
Maybe some in the hell realm realm passes by and could sense our kind intentions and changed their thoughts too, bringing them out of existing suffering state. So it is possible that our kind wishes and dedication of merits lead to something wholesome and useful.
Just that we just need practice compassion and dedication of merits without expectation.
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Personal interpretation: never know who might read this, but just keeping the wholesome wish that someone may benefit. Just like the venerable’s video reached people on YouTube and then something is written about it here, and read by you.
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大勢至菩薩念佛圓通章
大勢至法王子，與其同倫五十二菩薩，即從座起，頂禮佛足，而白佛言：「我憶往昔，恆河沙劫，有佛出世，名無量光；十二如來，相繼一劫。其最後佛，名超日月光；彼佛教我，念佛三昧。譬如有人，一專為憶，一人專忘；如是二人，若逢不逢，或見非見。二人相憶，二憶念深；如是乃至從生至生，同於形影，不相乖異。十方如來，憐念眾生，如母憶子；若子逃逝，雖憶何為？子若憶母，如母憶時，母子歷生，不相違遠。若眾生心，憶佛、念佛，現前當來，必定見佛，去佛不遠；不假方便，自得心開。如染香人，身有香氣；此則名曰：香光莊嚴。我本因地，以念佛心，入無生忍；今於此界，攝念佛人，歸於淨土。佛問圓通，我無選擇；都攝六根，淨念相繼，得三摩地，斯為第一。」
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