¹Even after the chiseong at Geumsansa Temple, the disciples still felt bewildered and lacked a sense of purpose, so they journeyed throughout the land in search of another teacher like Sangjenim.²Like the others, Gyeong-hak wandered in search of a teacher, and he finally returned home in February 1910 (DG 40),³only to discover that his elderly mother had just died from a sudden illness and that his family were busily preparing implements for the funeral.

⁴Gyeong-hak cried out in the yard, “Since I have been following an incomparable divine being, I have failed to even keep vigil during my mother’s final hour of passing.”⁵While he was wailing mournfully, Gyeong-hak remembered Sangjenim’s words, ‘Multitudes shall be saved through the Taeeulju Mantra,’⁶and so he immediately collected himself and entered the room where his mother had been laid to rest. After sending his family out of the room, he prayed to Sangjenim and chanted the Taeeulju Mantra with utmost devotion. As he did so, his elderly mother suddenly returned to life.

⁷From that time forth, whenever people become ill, Gyeong-hak took it upon himself to seek them out and heal them by chanting the Taeeulju Mantra. Word began to spread to all four directions: ‘Gyeong-hak has become a divine healer.’