Shreepal Singh, a Concerned Global Citizen: Historical elements of New Civ: Lord Buddha's Firm determination    
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3 Apr 2006 @ 13:55, by Shreepal Singh



Continues Christmas Humphreys with his narration of Buddha’s firm resolve to pursue search of the answer to his questions:

The purpose of his search was clear: the answer to his questions; the Truth behind birth, old age and death. He was out to secure the Secret that Nature has hidden from ordinary mortal man. The Secret of the existence: Why after all birth is there, and, if once born, why there is sickness, the old age and then death. He was not to be contented with anything less.

This is the Secret that Seers, Sages, Sramanas and Yogis have been searching and unraveling since ancient times in India, and thereby, conquering death and birth in this transient and painful world.

He visited first Aiara Kalama, a noted sage, and studied with him, but he found no answer to his heart's imperious demand. So he went to Uddaka, another sage, and received the same reply. He passed through the country of Magadha to the town of Uruvela, and there settled down in a grove of trees to find Enlightenment.

For six long years he meditated, practicing the utmost physical austerities until he all but wasted away. He conquered fear; subdued developed and controlled his mind, but still he did not find Enlightenment. Finally he realized that not in austerities could truth be found. He decided to eat again, and the five ascetics living with him departed in disgust. All lusts of the flesh; he accepted a bowl of curds from a maid, Sujata, and having eaten and bathed, seated himself in the lotus posture at the foot of a tree, determined to achieve without more delay the full fruits of Enlightenment. It was the night of the Full Moon of May, and he was thirty-five.



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