Sagaramegha

"Son, I have been living here in Sagaramukha ('Ocean-Door') for twelve years, having focused my mind on the ocean and kept it present in my awareness, reflecting on the measureless vastness of the great ocean, its pure clarity, its unfathomable depth, its gradual deepening, its variety of deposits of precious substances, the measurelessness of its body of water, its infinity, its being the dwelling place of various immense creatures, its being covered by great clouds, and how it neither increases nor decreases. I think: is there anything else in the world as vast as the great ocean, as broad, as measureless , as deep, as various?

While I was engaged in these thoughts, an enormous lotus from the bottom of the ocean appeared before me.