Inspiring Story of Chanting Buddha 39 - She heard celestial music from the sky 此世先聞天樂鳴空

(English and Chinese subtitles )念佛感應見聞記 , written by venerable laywoman Kanzhi Lin 林看治居士 (1906-1992 AD)
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Further, I'd like to talk more about Sister Chang'e. Since she worshiped the Buddha, she can fluently recite the Amitabha Sutra in the morning and evening classes. In addition, she can pronounce the words distinctly. So several elderly lotus fellows like to ask her to teach them to read the Amitabha Sutra.
When reading the scriptures "often making celestial music and making subtle sounds", she often thought: “How happy I would be if I could listen to the subtle celestial music in this life before I was reborn!"
One summer ten years ago, Sister Chang'e planted a shed of melons behind her house, hanging with large and tender melons.
When seeing the melon was ripe, she was eager to taste the fresh melon. She asked her daughter-in-law to go to the kitchen to prepare it first. She walked towards the melon shed herself and climbed on top of the gasoline barrel to pick the melon.
When she was picking melons one after another, because the empty gasoline barrel became unstable, Chang'e accidentally fell down with the barrel altogether, lying quietly under the melon shed for about ten minutes.
The daughter-in-law had been waiting in the kitchen for a long time, wondering why her mother-in-law hadn't returned after picking the melons for so long. When she came to the melon shed to take a look, she was shocked.
She repeatedly shouted, "Mom! Mom!" Her mother-in-law seemed to be in a concussion, passed out on the ground and lost consciousness.
At this time, Chang'e suddenly stopped her daughter-in-law from clamoring. She said, "Stop screaming! I was listening to beautiful music, and I felt refreshed. When you screamed, everything has gone."
Her daughter-in-law said, "Where is the music? Why didn't I hear anything!"
And she said to me: “At that time, I got up on the ground, put the gasoline tank upright, climbed up again and picked two more melons, and then went back into the house with my daughter-in-law.
Even now, when I think about it, the subtle celestial music is really something that has never been heard in the world, I'd say it is incredible music.”
I asked her, “Does that subtle sound come from the void? Or is it the sound from somewhere?” She said, “It felt like it was right on top of my head, so close to me.”
I half jokingly said: “Because you have been thinking about it all day long: you want to hear the celestial music of the Western Bliss World, and you finally heard it after a long time of anticipation. Maybe it is just a psychological effect.”
She immediately argued and said: "It is indeed an inspiration of Amitabha. Otherwise, when I fell, rocks and fragments of bricks were scattered on the ground, but I was not hurt at all. I was already 68 years old at the time.
If it weren't for Amitabha Buddha's great compassion and protection, how could it be so cheap?"