Buddhism-Introduction

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Not only the fact of sufferings do I teach but also the deliverance form it. - Anguttara Nikya

Bahujana hitaya Bahujana Sukhaya

Introduction

It was said by the historians that Buddhism first arose in the sixth century B.C. There was a supreme human being who in those remote times flung away his princedom by merely seeing four men viz. old man, sick man, dead man and a renounced man (ascetic) became recluse in search of ultimate liberation from the hold of misery and rose above all conventional ideas and gave a message rich with compassion and inner experience to all mankind, which is even to this day never lost its freshness and vigour. He was none other than Bhagawan Buddha, the enlightened one.

His will was such, seated cross-legged under the Bodhi tree resolved not to leave the seat till the highest enlightenment is gained, even if he be reduced to mere skin, flesh and bones.

He lived up to the age of eighty. He worked hard for forty five long years for the uplift of humanity, through his untiring missionary work. He was the first to revolt against the caste system and preached boldly that it is not by mere birth one becomes Brahmana or Sudra, low, high or noble, but by one's own built up characters, habits and actions.

He discovered, the desires and the attachments over men and material are the cause for all our sufferings. He said as long as these desires and attachments have not left us, sufferings will be behind us like a shadow behind an object.

In general and common most of our brothren think that Buddhism is atheistic - soulless and negative way of life. It never talks about Vedas or Upanishads or God or Soul. It talks more of sufferings,

than any of pleasures. This is a cent-percent misunderstood wrong notion.

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