Lord Buddha

Lord Buddha "Light of Asia"

History

In the year 624 BC lord Buddha was born in Kapilawaththu (Nepal) as princes named "Siddhartha Gautama". His father was King Suddhodana and his mother was Queen Mahamaya. once he was sixteen he finished his education and he married Yasodara the princess. King Suddhodana two-handed over his kingdom to his son mystic. that they had a baby name Rahula. once king mystic was twenty nine years previous he set to renounce lay life. mystic left from his kingdom and visited many well-known lecturers to check the final word nature of reality. however their teachings didn’t satisfy him and he started out to search out his own path.

Six years later he visited Bodgaya close to the Neranjana stream and weekday beneath a tree. Siddhartha's mind was calm and relaxed. As he weekday his concentration concentrated and his knowledge grew brighter. during this clear and peaceful state of mind he began to look at actuality nature of life. "What is that the reason behind suffering,” he asked himself, “and what's the trail to everlasting joy?" In his head he looked so much on the far side his own country, so much on the far side his own world. before long the sun, planets, the celebrities get in area and distant galaxies of the universe all seemed to him in his meditation. He saw however everything, from the littlest speck of mud to the most important star was coupled along in an exceedingly perpetually dynamical pattern: growing, decaying and growing once more. Everything was connected. Nothing happened while not a cause and each cause had a bearing on everything else.

   As he accomplished this, deeper truths seemed to his mind. He looked deeply into himself and discovered that his life as mystic the blue blood was however the most recent in an exceedingly series of lifetimes that had no starting - which a similar was true of everybody. we tend to square measure born, live and die not just one occasion, however once more and once more. He saw that death is just the separation of the mind from its gift body. once death the importance of fate is central to following journey. once one life ends, another begins - and during this approach the wheel of death and birth keeps spinning around and around. He conjointly saw one life to following we tend to square measure perpetually dynamical and perpetually poignant each other. typically we tend to square measure wealthy and comfortable; typically we tend to square measure poor and miserable. sometimes we tend to expertise pleasure, however additional usually we discover ourselves with issues. And mystic conjointly saw that as our conditions modification, thus do our relationships with others. we've all been every other's friend and enemy, mother and father, son and female offspring thousands upon thousands of times within the past.

      Then he checked out all of the suffering within the world. And he saw however living beings produce their own misery and joy. Blind to the reality that everything is usually dynamical, they lie, steal and even kill to urge the items that they need, even supposing these items will ne'er offer them the lasting happiness they need. and also the additional their minds fill with greed and hate, the additional they damage one another - and themselves! every harmful action leads them to additional and additional unhappiness. they're finding out peace nonetheless realize nothing however pain. Finally, he discovered the thanks to finish all this suffering. He was full of a refulgent clear light-weight. He was not a normal person. With a relaxed and peaceful smile, he arose from his meditation. within the golden break of the day, thus it's aforesaid, mystic hunted and saw the planet. and so an excellent understanding came to him. He saw in his mind all the lifetime of the planet and also the planets; of all the past and every one the longer term. He understood the that means of existence, of why we tend to square measure here on this earth and what has created living things. At long last he found the truth; he earned enlightenment and established the principles of fate. currently he was the Lord Buddha, the absolutely liberated one, woke up and enlightened. The search of six long years had terminated. it had been every day once the full-moon shone, casting a bright silver light-weight on the full rural area, every day within the month of Baishak.