All words have power.
Words can make people happy or sad, angry or loving, and so on. Language has a more profound effect on our lives than we realize. Even in everyday life there are such wonders, so how much greater are the wonders of the Lotus Sutra . Each of the characters themselves contain extremely profound principles of life, however, and together they express how everything in the cosmos works in one harmonious relationship. Of course this is extremely difficult to believe and understand, but that does not mean it cannot be understood, or that chanting this phrase does not have a profound effect on our lives.