The person who freed himself from the ignorance and inconsistencies of the outer and inner world is called the Buddha. The one who has stopped swindling between the currents of Life and death, Soul and No soul, existence and non-existences and all kinds of life's paradoxes.
Life itself is a beautiful and simple process of the birth of not only mind and body, but the birth of joy, happiness, and success it came along with. There are numerous inconsistencies that life has been surrounded with it and throughout human history, people blame Nature for its inconsistencies and deep contradictions. A contradiction of Appearance and Disappearance, Positive and Negative, Black and White, Gorgeous and Ugly, Famous, and Infamous, as well as a contradiction of success and failure.
Well, this year, we have celebrated the 2566th birth anniversary of Gautama the Buddha. It was not only celebration of his birth, but his attainment of Bodhi or enlightenment, and Mahaparinirvana. It is quite repetitive to tell you about the early life and late struggle of Gautama Buddha because it's been well written in the form of scriptures, in fact, it has been rewritten numerous times and still writing in the form oof several commentaries and sub-commentaries, novels etc., on how Siddhartha Gautam struggled so long for six years and achieved Nirvana at the end. It has also been well depicted on every great monument of stupas and viharas and also it has been cast in the form of film and telecast every night on television for mass awareness.
So there is no point in repeating the same thing over and over, but often times while highlighting his life, people fail to focus on how he lived and what kind of belief he was held up with or in other words, what kind of life he aspires to live.
He had shown us the significance of the Middle Way by avoiding two extremes; excessive indulgence in sense pleasure and severe torture of our body and also mind. Besides, he comprehends the Law of nature, that nature has its own law and rules different from what we humans have framed outside in the world for daily regularisation and utilization. Not only he comprehends but he realizes through his physical and mental realizations which is why the people of those days called him, the Buddha or Awakened One.
Well, he has called Awakened for various reasons other than the two mentioned above.
1. Buddha has been called awakened because he has risen above his own thoughts and thinking
2. He has been called Awakened because he has gotten in tune with the flow of the Nature
3. He has been called Awakened because he loved all humans and sentient beings
4. He has been called Awakened because he accepted all irrespective of caste and gender differences.
5. He has been called Awakened because he has figured out the root cause of suffering is not any God or deva but humans themselves, their own ignorantly and desirously driven actions
6. He has been called Awakened because he surpassed the boundaries of thinking, seeking, reasoning, and inquiring about all kinds of questions
7. He has been called Awakened because he has given up everything to find the answer which not only elevates himself but also others.
Of all these many reasons, there are many to be counted on to, but the most important of all is that he has been called Awakened because he has gotten himself out of his karmic creations. The purpose of his renunciation was to find out the remedy for human suffering but in this process, he got himself out of suffering which he called Bodi or his enlightenment. Unfortunately, when he knew that he can get only get rid of himself and not all sentient beings, he thought for a moment and then convinced himself to get ready for the mission of sharing his truth, which he called turning into motion the Law of the dhamma.
Many positive changes were brought up by the small yet revolutionary steps. Not only the East but people from all around the corner get ample opportunity to get benefitted from his teachings. Today we have been celebrating his 2566th birth anniversary, but we can only find him in the tradition, sect, caste, and whatnot. All the things that he warned us from such as; the rejection of caste and violence, excessive indulgence in sense pleasure, and bodily torture. Well, today, we are just doing all these things but in different forms with the advancement of technology and AI. We just doing all the odds and opposite of what he preached.
We are just copying his words and multiplying it, to make it more difficult.
So, this Buddha Purnima strives to look within.
Stive to sit in silence so that peace takes birth in you.
Strive to love yourself because the real Buddha resides within you.
I myself ignorantly though, went to Bodhgaya along with my friend. On reaching there, I realized that the real Buddha was not in the temple. The One which was inside the temple was human trials(culture) to capture his memory, it's their way to keep him alive.
However, So far as I learned about the Buddha, he loves Nature, loves open space, animals, and the whole of existence. So I found Buddha in space just like One with Nature, no difference.
And when I sat inside the temple, he sent me back saying;
"You need to look within, not in the temple."
