If many hundreds of thousands of billions of living beings hear [the name of] World-Voice-Perceiver Bodhisattva and call his name with all their hearts when they are under various sufferings, World-Voice-Perceiver Bodhisattva will immediately perceive their voices, and cause them to emancipate themselves [from the sufferings].

Those who, “suffering pain and torment, hear of the name of this bodhisattva He Who Observes the Sounds of the World (Avalokiteśvara) shall all gain deliverance.” [One may argue in the following way.] The Sage pushes [beings] in the beginning [of the process]. The underlying li is that he cannot lift up those without faculty; [in other words], if there is no religious mechanism (tao-chi) within [a man], the Sage will not respond. How [then] can one merely by invoking a name immediately gain deliverance (chieh-t’o/mokṣa)? Yet here [the Buddha] says so. Why? [I would answer in this way.] “Avalokiteśvara,” in speaking of its li, is the one who is capable of propagating [the sūtra or its doctrine] to all; and, in speaking of its implicit [meaning], is the one who [sets out] to save all. Beings, possessing the subtle triggering-mechanism (chi) of enlightenment, actively stimulate the Sage. The Sage is equipped with the Tao of all-embracing propagation. Now that the Tao of all-embracing propagation has been expounded, how can deliverance (mokṣa) be an empty [word]? Isn’t exhorting beings by glorifying a name also magnanimous?