Giving up greed, the best key of enlightenment of Siddhartha Gautam

7 May 2020

Giving up greed, the best key of enlightenment of Siddhartha Gautam

Siddhartha Gautam was born a human being but nowadays he is worshipped as the demigod. He did meditation under the Poplar trees and later he had been enlightened and began to preach about the peace and avoid bloodshed. It was Buddha who said one small positive thought in the morning can change the whole day. Every human being has to keep this though in their heart and begins the day can change their life too. If anyone begins the day with shouting and negativity, he doesn't have good day. In the same way he said- every human being is the author of his own health and diseases.  Nowadays even the modern medical scientists believe that the disease that a patient has is the outcome of the food he has. If anyone who is conscious about his health, he can be healthy and smart. But if he ignores his food habits and has what he gets might be the patient of various diseases. Another matter he added – Forgiveness is a gift to you. It frees you from the past experiences, and past relationships. It allows you to live in present time. When you forgive yourself and forgive others, you are indeed free. It looks very normal but in reality only virtuous soul can forgive him and others too. Today's anarchism is due to the greed he possesses.

Words are powerful, use them wisely. It is the word that can please and sadden you too. A word is mightier than the sword. A sword can kill anyone in no time but a word can illuminate the shattered heart. Thus everyone has to use the words properly. People come and go but the right ones stay. What it means that general people get birth grow up like the other people but they don't leave anything for the future generation. As soon as they die, they die forever but the ones who have good soul can leave the effect even after the death. Like Gautam Buddha himself. He was born a human being but due to being right one he is still leaving. So are others.

Gautam Buddha said, "Always be in love with a soul, not a face." See the people in the modern world. What they say about the beauty. They focus on the skin as well as the physical structure that is depicted but they forget that wrinkle face or swarthy complexion or faded faces or the disgusting ones might have virtuous soul. Thus the beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder. What you like may not others. It's natural it's because everyone in this world has different taste and interest of colours and liking too.

Buddha's mighty thought was and still: Accept your past without regret, handle your present with confidence, and face your future without fear. If we human beings begin to think and handle accordingly we can do a lot changes. We cannot change our past; it was already out of our hand. We don't need to regret it. Our regret makes our weaker. So we have to accept it and try our best handle every event with confident and having positive attitude. Positive attitude is the best way to handle every problem that we are facing. We should not get fear on any matter. If we try to have fear in our psyche, we can do nothing. To change the world, first we have to change ourselves. Gautam Buddha was able to change him has been able to change the world. Though he is not with us, he is omnipresent all over the world it's because he was the man who was able to control his anger, smile and give up the greed which is the enemies of human being.  

The next thing that he used to say about human beings, that you are all in all whether hell or heaven of your life. How you feel you will be. If you suffer, it is because of you. If you feel blissful, it is because of you. Nobody is responsible, only you and you alone. You are your hell and your heaven too. Even in the politics see the present leaders what they used to judge each other and how they are moving hand in hand. Last time they were supposed their enemies but now they are their intimate friends. It is possible due to the change in their thought. Thousands of people were killed in the name of so called revolution for the sake of general people and against anarchism, dictatorships, bribery, delaying in works, favoring nepotism and so on. We can see the same as it used to before. Slogans were able to win the general people's heart and they were ready to die and kill but the same stories have been repeated. Why? It is due to the greed that our called leaders have kept in their mind. Now they have to give up greed and try to keep their words what they poured over the people. They were in hearts of most of Nepalese but now there is hatred. It is they who were in favour of people but now even the members of their own parties have begun to hate them. Thus it is you who have made your life hell and heaven.

Buddha said- Don't compare your life to others.  There is no comparison between the sun and the moon. They shine when it is their time. He used to say that there is individual difference between people. They have their own quality. Ones' quality is incomparable to other. Both the sun and the moon have different quality and they perform their role differently. He also said – Never be a prisoner of your past. It was just a lesson, not a life sentence. Whether you were and are good, it's okay but if you were bad and regrettable history, forget it and try your best to change. Even the Balmiki was stupid but later he became a well-known personality. Now mostly the leaders have to realize that we have to live in present and don't compare your life as a prisoner. It's because prisoners are only for those who are against the contemporary constitutions. Your staying in the prisons and other are no more difference. The validity of staying in the prisons have been outdated it's because it doesn't judge you as a good one. If not, see back yourself and compare you between past and present you can find what good you did and what bad you have.

The most important thing that we have to follow that Buddha said is:  Weak people revenge. Strong people forgive. Intelligent people ignore. Now categorize your position and try yourself to lead towards intelligent people but not weak and strong ones. Intelligent people have outlet of every hardship but the weaker ones and strong ones don't have. We should ignore the bad thing and never let it enter to us. If we are able to ignore how others are judging us and if we try our best to give up greed, have positive attitude and be able to smile even hardship, we are success in life. Then ultimately there is peace everywhere, there is harmony everywhere, there is smile everywhere and have happiness to us.  The foremost thing that I like about him is that he was able to give up greed and smile even after listening to the insult. When there is no worries and greed, only positive thinking resides in human psyche which help human to be enlightened which he did. Hope for peace in each human, nation and in the world ultimately. Long live Gautam Buddha!.