The bare theoretical statement that we’re potentially divine doesn’t spare us from difficultnesses of life. , When difficultnesses life overwhelm us!
There was a student learning Vedanta, the science of being and announced aham Brahmasmi a little selfish, I am the universal truth, and this is my mental effigy. After numerous days an excruciating stomach pain gripped him and he started to cry. We are like him. Crying brahmams, crying universal truths!
Jesus was weeping at the cross, “Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani” “My God, my God. Why hast thou forsaken me? . ” one unkind gentleman hence defined christ as one who cries. He who cries is christ!
Life is difficult, life is strife, said buddha and the initial truth is of sorrow, so be not mocked.
So we all need an escapist heaven and only three choices are left for us. Alcohol, suicide or enlightenment. Alcoholism and suicide have been widely condemned as negative. ( freud discovered that all accidents are not accidents, but suicides. But suicide is sin, a violation of the law ” thou shalt not kill”. ) enlightenment is the sole positive escapism!
Ayur ksheenam na janathi thasmat jagrata jagrata ( sankara )
No one knows about the loss of ayus ( longevity ) therefor strive, strive for enlightenment!
Be not egotistic with wealth, humans or youth in a second, time, the all devourer may demolish all! Recognise that all this is a dream in mind cosmic hence seek thy self, o noble one!
Ma kuru dhana jana youvana garvam harathi nimeshath kala sarvam maya mayam idam akhilam hithva brahma padam thvam pravisha vidithva
( sankara )
We are human beings, composite creatures. Buddha is our positive aspect, mara is our negative aspect. Let us realise, like lord buddha, that mara is an aspect of ourselves. Let us get over him!
Buddhist system of belief is alike to advaita. Sankara was known as the concealed buddhist as he said the even god is illusory.
There is no bhakti yoga or bridal mysticism in buddhism. It is the road to enlightenment
When asked of god, buddha maintained a dignified silence. He said
Om amithya! Measure not with words the immeasurable; nor sink the string of thought into the fathomless; he who aks errs he who answers errs, say nought! ( the light of asia )
The initial noble truth, said buddha, is sorrow. Sorrow is the existential strength of this earth. Sarvam dukham, sarvam shoonyam, sarvam kshanikam, everything is sorrow, everything is zero, everything is evanescent.
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