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I AM MAHĀVĪRA
Campā, but, despite being defeated, he did not agree with me. He
propounded his doctrine until his death.
3. Buddha: The Momentarist
Buddha was my senior contemporary. He has taught the principle of momentariness of the world and non-soulism (anātmavāda). He was born in Kapilavastu. His parents were the king Shuddhodana and queen Mahāmāya. He was married to Yasodhara and had a son named Rāhula.
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While royal wanderings through the city, he saw
A ploughing farmer
A diseased person
An old person
A dead
A saint
On seeing these scenes, his heart was heavily moved towards finding the cure for all the ills of the world through sainthood. Determined in his objective, he renounced his home in the dead of one night after leaving his wife and child. He undertook wanderings and harsh austerities as per his new teachers. He was not satisfied with them. He adopted a middle path of austerities. In the end, after six years of austerities, he attained enlightenment under Bodhi Tree of Gaya (Bihar) and has been teaching the eightfold middle path and four noble truths for roughly 42 years. He is still alive. He has been wandering in the same area I have been For Private & Personal Use Only
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