In pursuit of God from six years of age, I searched for a spiritual master to guide me in the journey of life. Foremost of all was my mother. I put forward many queries to her but no reply! Probably she did not have the answers. Next I tried asking my father but was scared most of time. My father […]
Despite all teachings of Buddhism laid bare, not a single practitioner of Buddhism indulged in contemplation to reach cosmic end of life, 8.4 millionth manifestation! You indulged in contemplation for a period of 12 years under a bodhi tree to reach stage of enlightenment but to what avail! Bookish reading has become the order of day. All indulged in scriptures […]
Gautama Buddha was not the creator of Buddhism! He only framed guidelines for human beings to emancipate forever from sufferings, world of dukhma (miseries)! After Gautama Buddha left his mortal frame, his followers called the teachings of Gautama Buddha as Buddhist teachings and the following as Buddhism religion. Gautama Buddha gained enlightenment in his lifetime and if followers of […]
Unless we understand the whole scenario things do not become clear. Siddhartha Gautama started in pursuit of hidden truths of life even while living in family. At a very young age he realized nothing could be gained living in family. One night touching feet of wife and child he left for deep dense forests to contemplate in isolation. No matter […]
After sitting under a bodhi tree for a continuous period of 12 years Siddhartha Gautama finally realized that whatever he was searching for already existed within. The realization that we were primarily a spirit, a soul atman and not the manifest physical form dawned on us all of a sudden! This realization makes an enlightened one, one with God Almighty […]
The moment a human being traveling path of spirituality reaches stage of enlightenment… one becomes a man god like Mahavira, Gautama Buddha, Jesus Christ or Prophet Mohammed. The stage of a man god is reached by curtailing, demolishing… dissolving karma to zero. When dross impurities within soul atman removed forever it reaches stage of absolute purity! After becoming a […]
The cosmic truth realized by Siddhartha Gautama was… we were primarily a soul atman. Negating karma to zero forever one reaches stage of absolute purity! Buddhist scriptures defined this stage cessation of sufferings forever. The ephemerality of physical manifest life became clear to Siddhartha Gautama when he sat under a bodhi tree for a period of 12 years in continuation. […]
Living in the present, practicing materialism is opposite of enlightenment! As a human being we had only two paths to follow… spiritual or material! Initially all human beings were material by nature. We indulged in day-to-day routines of life guided by five senses and mind. The attachment of five senses was difficult to kill. Overpowering ego desires and wishes we […]
If our goal in life was climbing Mount Everest, would it matter how many already climbed to the top! Working with a biased look, we reached nowhere. Before Siddhartha Gautama was born not in hundreds but thousands in erstwhile Bharatvarsha (now India) reached enlightenment in their lifetime! As ordained by God Almighty in a time period of 100 to […]
Both Mahavira and Gautama Buddha are considered contemporaries separated from each other by gap of about 77 years. Initially advent Mahavira above 2600 years before now! Mahavira is 24th Tirthankara of Jainism, preceptor. The Jainism religion also called a way of life has a chain of enlightened ones termed Tirthankaras. Mahavira was the last and the most recognized in the […]