Destination Of Enlightenment!

Once lived a woman named Kissa Gotami who was the wife of a wealthy man named Savatthi. Unfortunately, after losing their only son Kissa turns desperate with disappointment and misery she wanders around asking people for help with her son's dead body.

People thought she has gone insane in the grief of her son's death. Kissa comes across an old man who suggested the man who lived in the woods.

Finally she meets Buddha and requests him to get her son's life back. Buddha agrees and proclaims to get muster seeds from a house that has never seen any deaths. 

Kissa filled with joy agrees and goes in search of the seeds but from every house she receives the same response stating not to remind about the grief of losing their near and dear ones. 

 

Woefully, misfortuned Kissa sits on the street corner and stares at the street lamp which was flickering and was about to extinguish.

Buddha says that a life of a man is just like the street lamp which might extinguished any time...

So now let's see who is this saint named Buddha...!

Siddhartha Gautama commonly referred to as Buddha was a wandering ascetic and religious teacher who lived in the 5th century BCE. He was born in Lumbini to royal parents Suddhodana and Maya Devi according to Buddha's horoscope it was said he would leave all the royalty and become a saint.

Worried and concerned father prevented Siddhartha from going out of the palace.

All his education was covered in the palace itself. And at the age of 21, he married the princess Yashodhara.

As no one can prevent the fortune, one fine day he wished to go out. When he went out he witnessed a poor man begging for alms, a sick man and a son crying during his father's funeral.

Seeing world misery and depression he decides to sacrifice all the happiness and luxuries forever.

He sets out to seek enlightenment he wanders and finally sits under a tree (Bhodhi vriksha) where he achieves enlightenment. 

Therefore, this is the legend that tells how a prince turned into a Saint. 

"Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have."           

                        - Buddha