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Mañjuśrī replied: There is, young man of good family, the daughter of Sāgara, the Nāga-king, eight years old, very intelligent, of keen faculties, endowed with prudence in acts of body, speech, and mind, who has caught and kept all the teachings, in substance and form, of the Tathāgatas, who has acquired in one moment a thousand meditations and proofs of the essence of all laws. She does not swerve from the idea of enlightenment, has great aspirations, applies to other beings the same measure as to herself; she is apt to display all virtues and is never deficient in them. With a bland smile on the face and in the bloom of an extremely handsome appearance she speaks words of kindliness and compassion. She is fit to arrive at supreme, perfect enlightenment.
Source Lotus of the True Law, Chapter 11, §21 · 📖 Read the full passage
✨ To meditate on today
According to the Lotus of the True Law, the Bodhisattva Mañjuśrī presents the daughter of Sāgara, king of the Nāgas (serpent-beings), a child of eight: smiling, she has only thoughts of kindness, loves all beings as much as herself, and is able to reach awakening; no one is excluded from it, neither by age nor by birth. Today, take seriously the words of someone who is rarely listened to (a child, an elderly person, a newcomer) and treat others as you would like to be treated.
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