1 Sangjenim one day declared, “Any mantra is powerful if you chant it with faith.”

하루는 상제님께서 “주문은 무슨 주문이든지 믿고만 읽으면 좋으니라.” 하시고

2 Sangjenim then said, “A maiden who grieved over her lost chance at marriage visited an elderly neighborhood couple who were meditators and asked them for a mantra, intending to cultivate and purify herself with dao.

말씀하시기를 “혼기를 잃어 한(恨)이 된 어떤 처녀가 도나 닦으려고 이웃에 수도하는 노부처(老夫妻)를 찾아가 주문을 물으니

3 But the elderly couple had recently been quarreling and were still very agitated, so they replied in irritation, ‘Don’t like anything.’

때마침 노부부는 서로 다툰 뒤라 심사가 불안하여 귀찮은 마음에 ‘아무것도 싫다.’고 대답하였더니

4 “The maiden mistook this answer for a mantra and chanted it ceaselessly with ardent devotion, and this annoyed her family.

처녀가 이를 주문으로 알고 앉으나 누우나 쉬지 않고 열성으로 읽으니 온 식구가 싫어하였느니라.

5 One day, she was chanting as she bore a large jar of water on her head, and her exasperated father struck the jar with a flail he had just used to thresh barley. But though the jar fell onto a rock,

하루는 그 말을 외우면서 물동이를 이고 오는데 그 아버지가 보리타작하던 도리깨로 물동이를 쳐서 돌 위에 넘어졌으나

6 it did not break and none of its water spilled.”

동이도 성하고 물도 쏟아지지 않았느니라.” 하시니라.

(EnglishDojeon 9:91)(도전道典 9:201)