〔第三段〕
目連、初めて六通を得て、亡母の恩を報ひ（ん）と思ひて、その生拠を見るに、餓鬼の中に生（ま）れたり。目連、悲しび泣きて、鉢に食物を入れて、母の所に往いて、此を与ふ。母得て食べせむとするに、未だ口に入らざるに、炎となりぬ。目連、悲しむで仏の御許に詣でて、母を救ふべき謀を問ひ奉る。
When Mokuren first acquired the six divine powers, he wanted to recompense his deceased mother, but when he discovered his mother’s reincarnated place, he saw his mother reborn in the hungry ghost realm. Mokuren cried with grief, put food in a bowl, went to his mother’s place, and granted it to her. His mother intended to eat it, but the food burst into flames before it entered her mouth. Mokuren, in his sadness, went to the Buddha’s presence and humbly asked for a strategy that ought to rescue his mother.
母得て食べせむとするに、未だ口に入らざるに、炎となりぬ。
His mother intended to eat it, but the food burst into flames before it entered her mouth.
目連、悲しむで仏の御許に詣でて、母を救ふべき謀を問ひ奉る。
Mokuren, in his sadness, went to the Buddha’s presence and humbly asked for a strategy that ought to rescue his mother.
ADDITIONAL KNOWLEDGE
目連 (Mokuren) is an Indian monk and he is one of the ten great disciples of the Buddha. See more details here.