In the spirit of the bodhisattva, and as a kind of model case of the bodhisattva way, the bodhisattvas who welled up out of the earth in chapter 15 are entrusted with the truth and encouraged with praise to embody it and put it into practice in the future. The words of chapter 21 were very meaningful and encouraging to Nichiren, and it is said that Dogen passed away while reciting passages from this chapter.