Saha-world can be translated as “World of Endurance” or “Perseverance.” It is also called “the defiled land.” Land of Endurance means the place where we must bear up under many pains, and “defiled land” means a place that is corrupted. When we humbly examine our conscience, we realize how many worldly desires we have, and how deeply we have been contaminated by them. This is the normal human condition, so the real world, where such contaminated humans congregate, is filled with vice and impurity. Therefore, it is called the defiled land. On the other hand, we can imagine a Pure Land, created and inhabited by ideal beings. Such an ideal world, however, is generally thought to exist somewhere far away, infinitely distant from the real world. For example, the Western Pure Land of Amitayus Buddha, said to exist ten thousand billion countries to the west, is a typical expression of this human longing for a pure place somewhere where everyone will be happy.