佛由其了无贪欲，故感此众宝庄严，诸凡化现，不须人力经营之殊胜境界。
[The] Buddhas, due to them [being] without greedy desires, thus [are able to have the] response [of having] these many treasures’ adornment [of their Pure Lands, to] all manifest, [with the] excellent state of not needing manpower [to] manage [them].
岂可与娑婆世界之凡夫境界相比乎。
How can [this be] with Sahā World’s ordinary beings’ state [be] compared [as they have many greedy desires and lack meritorious virtues]?
譬如慈善有德之人，心地行为，悉皆正大光明，故其相貌，亦现慈善光华之相。彼固无心求相貌容颜之好，而自然会好。
For example, [on] people of benevolence with virtues, [their] mind grounds [and] conduct, [are] all [with] upright [and] great bright light. Thus, their appearances, also appear [with] forms of benevolent brilliance. [Even] those admittedly without [the] mind [to] seek goodness of appearance [and] complexion, naturally will [look] good [then]. [Note: ‘正大光明’ also means ‘just and honourable’.]
造业之人，其心地龌龊(wòchuò)污秽凶恶，其面亦随之黯晦(ànhuì)凶恶。
Of people [who] create [negative] karma, [with] their mind grounds [with] filthiness, [despicability, pettiness], defilements [and] fiendishness, their faces also accordingly [are] of darkness [and] fiendishness.
彼固唯欲面色之好，令人以己为正大光明之善人。而心地不善，纵求亦了不可得。
[Even if there are] those [who] admittedly only desire [for] goodness of complexion, [to] enable people [to see] themselves as with upright [and] great bright light of good people, yet [with their] mind grounds not good, even if seeking [so], also cannot attain [it].
此约凡夫眼见者。
This [is] restricted [to] that [which] ordinary beings’ eyes see.
若鬼神则见善人身有光明，光明之大小，随其德之大小。
If ghost [and] gods thus see good persons’ bodies, [they will] have bright light, [with the] magnitude of bright light, according [to the] magnitude of their virtues.
见恶人则身有黑暗凶煞等相，其相之大小，亦随恶之大小而现。
Seeing evil persons thus, [their] bodies [will] have darkness, demonic [and] other forms, [with the] magnitude of their forms, also according [to the] magnitude of [their] evil then appearing.
净土宗十三祖印光大师
Pure Land Tradition’s 13th Patriarch Great Master Yìnguāng
复（俞慧郁，陈慧昶）二居士书
Reply Letter To Two Laypersons Yú Huìyù [And] Chén Huìchǎng
Namo Amituofo : Translation and note by Shen Shi’an
