With this golden multitude beyond all numbering was He.
Then, as His Majesty had seen in the dream of the night, the
wood-cutter's daughter, moving through the flowers like one blind
that gropes his way, advanced before the Blessed Feet, and
uplifting her hands, did adoration, and her face he could not
see, but his heart went with her, adoring also the infinite
Buddha seated in the calms of boundless Light.
Then enlightenment entered at his eyes, as a man that wakes from
sleep, and suddenly he beheld the Maiden crowned and robed and
terrible in beauty, and her feet were stayed upon an open lotos,
and his soul knew the Senju Kwannon Herself, myriad-armed for the
helping of mankind.
And turning, she smiled as in the vision, but his eyes being now
clear her blinded eyes were opened, and that glory who shall tell
as those living founts of Wisdom rayed upon him their ineffable
light? In that ocean was his being drowned, and so, bowed before
the Infinite Buddha, he received the Greater Illumination.
How great is the Glory of Kwannon!
When the radiance and the vision were withdrawn and only the moon
looked over the trees, His Majesty rose upon his feet, and
standing on the snow, surrounded with calm, he called to the
Dainagon, and asked this;
"What have you seen?"
"Augustness, nothing but the country wench and moon and snow.
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