¹It was the custom of a young blind man to sit by the roadside on Yongmeorigogae Hill, playing a bamboo flute for alms.²One day, Sangjenim passed along the road with Gap-chil, and He paused for a time, observing the blind man’s piteous state. He asked the blind man, “May I take some of your money to buy Myself rice wine?”

³The blind man replied, “Please, take all the money and buy as much rice wine as You wish.”

⁴Sangjenim laughed and took a coin. As He later purchased Himself a bowl of rice wine and drank it, Sangjenim declared, “Poor man. I shall provide him the means to live comfortably.”⁵Immediately, Sangjenim journeyed to a wealthy widow’s house outside Jeonju’s South Gate.

⁶The widow had been deeply distressed because her son and daughter had been ill for several days, and though she had summoned many renowned healers, they were of no aid.⁷Sangjenim, however, simply wrote “demons begone” on a sheet of paper and burned it in the yard, and the two siblings recovered immediately.
8Awestruck, the widow sought to express her deep gratitude, but Sangjenim would not accept any hospitality. Before leaving, however, He recommended that the widow marry the blind man.⁹Since she firmly believed in Sangjenim’s divinity, she immediately sent a sedan chair for the blind man.

¹⁰Sangjenim soon returned to Yongmeorigogae Hill and chanted a mantra, granting the blind man the resplendence of sight. ¹¹The man rode the sedan chair to Jeonju, overcome with joy.

¹²Sangjenim declared, “If you spend one nyang for Me, I shall repay you with one thousand, ten thousand nyang.”