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淨瓶收海 一步一拜
The Vase Reclaims the Sea; a Bow at Every Step
菩薩念動真言，把淨瓶攲倒，將那一海水依然收去，更無半點存留。對行者道：「悟空，這妖精已是降了，卻只是野心不定。等我教他一步一拜，只拜到落伽山，方才收法。你如今快早去洞中，救你師父去來。」行者轉身叩頭道：「有勞菩薩遠涉，弟子當送一程。」菩薩道：「你不消送，恐怕誤了你師父性命。」行者聞言，歡喜叩別。那妖精早歸了正果，五十三參，參拜觀音。菩萨念动真言，把净瓶攲倒，将那一海水依然收去，更无半点存留。对行者道：「悟空，这妖精已是降了，却只是野心不定。等我教他一步一拜，只拜到落伽山，方才收法。你如今快早去洞中，救你师父去来。」行者转身叩头道：「有劳菩萨远涉，弟子当送一程。」菩萨道：「你不消送，恐怕误了你师父性命。」行者闻言，欢喜叩别。那妖精早归了正果，五十三参，参拜观音。
逐句解 Line by line
菩薩念動真言，把淨瓶攲倒，將那一海水依然收去，更無半點存留。
菩萨念动真言，把净瓶攲倒，将那一海水依然收去，更无半点存留。
The Bodhisattva intoned the true words, tilted the pure vase, and drew that whole sea of water back into it as before, until not half a drop remained.
對行者道：「悟空，這妖精已是降了，卻只是野心不定。
对行者道：「悟空，这妖精已是降了，却只是野心不定。
To Pilgrim she said, 'Wukong, this fiend is now subdued, yet his wild heart is still unsettled.'
等我教他一步一拜，只拜到落伽山，方才收法。
等我教他一步一拜，只拜到落伽山，方才收法。
'Let me make him bow at every step, bowing all the way to Mount Potalaka, and only then shall I withdraw the spell.'
落伽山 — Mount Potalaka (Putuo), Guanyin's island seat.
你如今快早去洞中，救你師父去來。」
你如今快早去洞中，救你师父去来。」
'Go now, and quickly, into the cave to rescue your master.'
行者轉身叩頭道：「有勞菩薩遠涉，弟子當送一程。」
行者转身叩头道：「有劳菩萨远涉，弟子当送一程。」
Pilgrim turned and knocked his head to the ground, saying, 'I have troubled the Bodhisattva to come so far; your disciple ought to see you off a stretch of the way.'
菩薩道：「你不消送，恐怕誤了你師父性命。」
菩萨道：「你不消送，恐怕误了你师父性命。」
'You need not escort me,' said the Bodhisattva, 'lest you delay and endanger your master's life.'
行者聞言，歡喜叩別。
行者闻言，欢喜叩别。
At these words Pilgrim, rejoicing, bowed his farewell.
那妖精早歸了正果，五十三參，參拜觀音。
那妖精早归了正果，五十三参，参拜观音。
The fiend had by now entered the true fruit, and among the fifty-three visitations paid his homage to Guanyin.
五十三參 — the fifty-three teachers visited by Sudhana (善財童子) in the Gaṇḍavyūha; the Red Boy is here absorbed into that figure.
總評 Commentary
Guanyin's vase drinking back its ocean is an emblem of her 甘露 (amrita) power, and 一步一拜 — a full prostration at every step — casts the subjugation as penitential pilgrimage. The line quietly completes the boy's transformation into 善財童子 (Sudhana), grafting the Huayan/Gaṇḍavyūha frame of the 五十三參 onto the novel's own economy of conversion.