Ofudesaki 04:042

Ofudesaki
Author: Miki Nakayama Date Published: 1998 Pages: 486 (English ed.) Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Part 7 Part 8 Part 9 Part 10 Part 11 Part 12 Part 13 Part 14 Part 15 Part 16 Part 17 unnumbered set

Ofudesaki 04:042 is a verse from the Ofudesaki. The English translation below is the sixth edition translation.

Content

Day by day, disorders will come to your bodies.	nichi nichi ni mi ni sawari tsuku to tokushin se	にち／＼に　みにさハりつく　とくしんせ
Ponder over it! God is informing you of your mistaken minds.	kokoro chigai o Kami ga shirasuru	心ちがいを　神がしらする

Alternate English translations

Third Edition

Day after day disorders will appear in your bodies. Ponder over it! It is warning from God that your minds are mistaken.

Inoue/Eynon

You may be stricken daily by physical disorders. Be convinced, for this is God's warning to mistaken minds.

Commentary

Commentary by Yoshitaro Ueda (2008)

From Michi no dai: Foundation of the Path 34:48

Disorders may come to our bodies in the course of our lives, and verse 42 tells us to see them as alerting us to our mistaken minds, i.e., our mistaken ways of using or handling the mind.

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