(^652) MANICHAEAN LITERATURE
Through your insuperable tongue and generosity
you gave the jewel of the good law to us the miserable.
The families of the living lost their minds
through their dark passions,
yet they were reborn.
YOU EMBRACE EVERYONE
Through your great and compassionate heart
you put your arms around everyone
and rescued them from the cycle of rebirth,
saving them from samsara.
The blessed of pure heart
slowly came upon insight,
overcame malevolence,
and came to the statue of the arhats.^19
But pleasure, tying them to the world,
gave them mastery of cunning and trickery.
You brought them help and prosperity.
For those who forgot their origin,
you revealed who you are,
changing your form.
When all living beings saw your revelation,
they were inspired and desired only
to escape from the suffering of cyclical samsara.
To children you came in a benevolent form
and turned them from evil
and love of the world, to which they had succumbed.
Before the blue sky of the whole kingdom
you were born as the Buddha god of teachers.
KNOWLEDGE SHINES, COMPASSION GROWS
On seeing you, the living were happy
and with firm minds no longer doubted.
- Ideal figures or saints of Theravada Buddhism.