Chapter 12 The Brilliant Light Pervasivley Illuminating

The Buddha told Ananda, "The powerful spiritual lights emitted by Amitabha Buddha is the foremost and the most honoured. The Buddhas in the ten directions are unable to bring on a comparison. His lights pervasively illuminate The Buddhalands as numerous as the Ganges sand in the Eastern direction, and it also illuminates the Southern, Western and Northern directions, the four corners and the upper and lower positions. The round lights transform from the summit of His head shine forth to the lengths of one, two, three and four Yojanas, or shine forth to the lengths of hundreds and thousands of millions of billions of Yojanas. The lights emitted by the other Buddhas may illuminate one or two Buddhalands or hundreds of thousands Buddhalands. But the lights of Amitabha Buddha pervasively illuminate uncountable, immeasurable, innumerable Buddhalands. The lights emitted by The Buddhas and the lengths of the lights depend on their vows, merits and virtues which were different, they may be either great or minor while they were practising and seeking the Path in their former lives.

Everyone of them will obtain whatever they have vowed for when they achieved Buddhahood. These lights come forth naturally with no prediction nor planning. The pure, kind lights emitted by Amitabha Buddha is much brighter than the lights from the sun and moon by thousands and billions of millions of times. His lights is the most honoured as He is The King of Buddhas. That is why The Buddha of Innumerable Lifespan is also known as the Buddha of Immeasurable Lights. He is also known as The Buddha of Unlimited Lights, The Buddha of Unobstructed Lights and the Buddha of Uncomparable Lights. And He is also known as The Wisdom lights, The Forever Illuminating Lights, The Pure Lights, The Joyful Lights, The Lights of Liberty, The Lights of Great Ease, The Lights that Surpass The Sun and The Moon and The Inconceivable Lights. These lights pervasively illuminate all the world systems in the ten directions. If there are living beings who have the chance to meet His Lights, his impurities will come to extinction and the good roots will flourish. His body and mind will be gentle and suppliant. If the living beings who are experiencing acute sufferings in the three evil paths were to see the lights, their sufferings will come to an end and they will rest at ease. At the end of their lifespans, they will all obtain liberation. If there are living beings who have heard of His lights, the spiritual powers, merits and virtues of the lights, and are able to be mindful of the lights wholeheartedly, throughout the days and nights unceasingly, they will be born in that Land as they have vowed."