Prabuddha Jivan 2016 07

SR No.: 526096
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Sejal Shah
Publisher: Mumbai Jain Yuvak Sangh
Publication Year: 2016
Total Pages: 44
Language: Gujarati
Classification: Magazine, India_Prabuddha Jivan, & India
File Size: 2 MB

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JULY 2016
PRABUDDH JEEVAN
"BUDDHA" - HIS MENTATION..., INTELLECTION TOWARDS INSIGHT!
O PRACHI DHANVANT SHAH
If you do not see the pain, you cannot feel the pain. about his son. Being a king it was obvious that he The pain through sufferings, the pain through struggling. wanted his son to be the ruler of his kingdom and not a But why this suffering? Why this pain? Anything and sage. Siddhartha's father never even in his wildest everything that takes birth in this worldly life is bound dream wished his son to leave him and his kingdom to face suffering and pain and eventually has an end to and take a path of renunciation. Fearing the fact that existence. No matter whatever be the circumstances, one day Siddhartha would be encompassed to take one will always end up aging, one will always end up up the spiritual path, the king made all the efforts to being ill at a certain point of time in life, by some or the give his son every possible worldly comfort, luxuries, other means, and will perish eventually. We need to and attractions. He was impeded from any kind of figure out how do we make all this alright. There is sufferings and discomforts.King thought that all these suffering, but how do we make this suffering blissful luxuries and attractions will compile him to get attached and painless? Buddha said there is joy everywhere, to all the comforts and pleasures and thus Siddhartha it's up to us how we open up this blissful nature of would never think of renouncement and leave the reality. You are your own master. If you wish, you can kingdom. But destiny had already etched a distinctive be happy beyond sufferings. Every suffering has its foresee. cause, and you have to find this cause and let go of it. At the age of seven, Siddhartha was taught all the This is what Buddha found and he said, "at any point possible skills to be a powerful warrior as a prince to of life, we can find the same blissful happiness," and become the future king. But during his practices, and thus showed the path through Buddhism.
training, something was bothering him. He was not He expressed through Buddhism, that, the only happy. It kept him wondering and he kept struggling approach to be happy, to be released from the cycle of with his mind and thoughts. Although he was always rebirth and death, leading to Nirvana is through fearless and brave. He would keep thinking deep down enlightenment. And this enlightenment is obtained by in his thoughts trying to find answers to his questions. Practices of threefold training: Morality, But Siddhartha's father, the king made all the Concentration, and Wisdom. Practices of Eight- possible ways to delude him from these undermining fold path. (1) Right view; (2) Right intention; (3) thoughts and Siddhartha's mental wrap. Right speech; (4) Right action; (5) Right Livelihood; King made sure Siddhartha's every whim was (6) Right Effort; (7) Right Mindfulness; (8) Right satisfied and every desire was fulfilled. As he grew Concentration.
into a young boy, he was also surrounded by gorgeous 2500 years ago, snuggled in a fertile valley along women. He started enjoying this ecstasy and at the the border between India and Nepal in the small town, age of 16, he was married to his cousin Yashodhara. alongside Kapilavastu a child was born who is to She was gorgeous and it did not take long for become Lord Buddha. He was named as Prince Siddhartha to submerge himself in her love, and soon Siddhartha Gautama, born to a queen named Maya. It he was blessed with a son named Rahula. Siddhartha was said that when she was expecting Siddhartha, she indulged himself with the worldly happiness and had a unique dream and when the sages were asked leisure's till he was twenty-nine years of age until the to interpret the dream, they predicted that she will give gleaming bubble of substantial pleasure busted. birth to a son, who will grow to be a ruler-a great king There are several stories about Buddha which lead or a sacred man- a great sage and a spiritual teacher. him to the path of serenity. Each tradition, each culture,
Father of Siddhartha Gautama, was a ruler of a each time period has its own stories. But when and poor Indian tribe the Shakiyas and Siddhartha's mother where these stories come from does not matter. All Maya died within seven days after giving birth to her these stories reveal the message that touches our son. Sidhartha's father remembered the predictions heart and tells us something that we all basically know.