Even if you say, ‘With the Six Sages…’

When the flow is perfectly calm, the very sense of “seeing” becomes something slightly different.

Perhaps it is closer to what humans would call feeling.
Then again, maybe such thoughts arise only because I have existed as an incarnation for several hundred years.

Now… yes, it is as though I perceive the world through the surface of water.

— Humans, after all, are strangely limited in their power to perceive…

Even while reminding myself that it was I who created them so by design, I cannot help but feel that guiding and leading them is, unexpectedly, a “complex and difficult act.”

They would call it “troublesome,” perhaps.
Yet in the Vedic language I still remember, there is no word that corresponds exactly to that notion.

— Even this is, to be honest, rather inconvenient.

Our dimensions of existence are different; it cannot be helped.
Their capacity to perceive differs entirely from mine.
Thus, even matters that are simple and fluid—like flowing water—cannot be conveyed to them so easily.

Though this was a burden I imposed upon myself, I find that it may be time to entrust it to someone else.

“Yet there is none among the other gods to whom I may leave this task.
Is there no one who can convey my thoughts to humans and guide them in my stead?”

A faint irritation—something close to it—began to stir within the Sixfold Wise Benzaiten.

She knew it well: this was born from her love of learning and the arts.
And precisely because of that, she felt she should not remain standing upon this landing of hesitation.

“…Then perhaps the one who can do this in my place must also be myself…”

Learning—above all, music, dance, and the performing arts—brings vitality to the heart.
By teaching and guiding humans in these things, they too may increase their power to perceive.

“If there were beings who stood between myself and humans, they might become a bridge.”

Her thought took form as it was.

From the palms of the incarnation of the Sixfold Wise Benzaiten arose small whirlpools of water.
They gradually became six clear, swirling spheres resting upon her hands, each revealing within it the movement and currents of flowing water.

“With the Six Sages, I shall create those who convey my will and guide humankind—beings who bear human form.”

The spheres of water were thus:

“Names… yes, names will surely be necessary.”

She left the details to fate.
Yet she understood that to face humans, a name must exist.
This realization itself was the manifestation of her wish to guide and enlighten them.

“I shall call them Sara .
They shall carry both reverence like mine and dwell near water as I do.
In my place, they shall sift and select—like one who stirs and strains within water.
But unless they walk among humans and live beside them, they cannot lead them forward.
Thus they are still buds, and in time, they shall bloom into great flowers.”

Within the Sixfold Wise Benzaiten, all was now complete.