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In this chapter the buddha recalls a past world in which there is a King with two sons.

Vimalagarbha and Vimalanetra joined their palms and said to their mother, "We are sons of the Dharma King, yet born into this family of wrong views."

The mother told her sons, "You should be concerned for your father. Display supernatural transformations. If he sees them, his mind will surely become pure, and he may allow us to go to the Buddha."

Thereupon, the two sons, for the sake of their father, leaped into the air to the height of seven tala trees and performed various miraculous transformations - walking, standing, sitting, and lying down in the air; making water come from the upper part of their bodies and fire from the lower part, and then fire from the upper part and water from the lower part; sometimes showing enormous bodies filling the sky, and then appearing small, and small appearances becoming large again; disappearing in the sky and suddenly appearing on the ground; entering the earth as if it were water and walking on water as if it were land. By displaying such supernatural powers, they caused their father to have a pure mind and believe.