Agama And Tripitaka Comparative Study

SR No.: 022804
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Nagaraj Muni
Publisher: Today and Tomorrows Printers and Publishers
Publication Year: 1986
Total Pages: 804
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 19 MB

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'There is suffering in the next life. I must find out the way what would liberate me from rebirth. There must be some such way. As happiness and misery are two counterparts, so there must be acounterpart to this life to end further life. Heat goes with the emergence of cold; so does the fire of attachment, etc., with liberation'.
This thinking gave a further stimulus to his indifference. He built a cottage on the Himalayas and settled there. He spent his time mostly in trance and meditation.
At that time, Dipankar Buddha, the Leader of mankind, was preaching in the world and served as a becon-light. While on his tours, once he arrived at the great vihāra (Buddhist resting place) named Sudarsana in the city of Rammaka. The people of the city welcomed the great teacher with the offerings of incences and wreaths, and paid their homage and obeiscance to him. They attended his sermons, invited him to take food from them on the following day and returned home. On the next day, the Buddha would enter the town to beg. So the town was being decorated to receive him. The ditches on the streets, through which water flowed, were filled up with dust. Thereon they spread white sand as bright as silver, and scattered on it fried rice and flowers, Flags of various hues were unfurled, and all important places were decorated with rows of banana trees and filled-up jars, Groups of happy people were strolling all over the city. All that time, Tapās a Sumedha who had come out of his cottage (on the Himalayas) was flying through the sky on some business, When he saw the decoration of the city, and groups of merry people moving about, he had a desire in his mind to know the reason for all this. So he descended from the sky to the ground and made enquiries when he was told by the people, in part, as follows:
"Bhante! Revered Dipankara who has become a Buddha and is currently preaching the best religion to mankind is at this moment stationed at the great vihā - ra named Sudarsana outside our city. We have invited him to our city, and he is scheduled to visit us to-day. So we are decorating the route through which the Buddha will pass".