13 Apr 2006 @ 16:31, by Shreepal Singh
It is not that only evil forces are there to obstruct Yogi on his path of Divine enlightenment; he has equally supportive forces on his side. If it were not so, no mortal being however great he might be would ever be able to withstand the opposition and get victory over the hostile forces. There are also equally powerful (and ultimately more powerful) supportive forces that encourage and help the seeker.
Boddhisattva, in his endeavor, was supported and encouraged by these forces; when he maintained his calm, resolve and perseverance, the good and helping forces thus urged Buddha:
'Lust, hate and ignorance (these are) the rack and bolt, the yoke placed on the shoulder of the world; through ages long he has practiced austerities to rescue men from these their fetters; sitting on his right-established throne, he now shall certainly attain his end.'
'Like as when some cruel chieftain slain, the hateful band is all dispersed and scattered, so the lust of Mara disconcerted, fled away. The mind of Boddhisattva now reposed was quiet and peaceful.
These are real spiritual experiences which over the ages have been replicated by all great Yogis and realized souls and even today one who embarks on the path of spiritual enlightenment may very well experience on way to the Divine destination, that is, Enlightenment:
'Boddhisattva having subdued Mara, his firmly fixed mind at rest, thoroughly exhausting the first principle of truth, he entered into deep and subtle contemplation (that is, entered into a higher level of consciousness in meditation). While self-contained, every kind of Samadhi in order passed before
his eyes.
Experience of Enlightenment
During the first watch of night he, in his Samadhi, had an experience of a particular state of consciousness referred to as 'right perception' (note: the Truth, the highest plane of Consciousness where all that exists is experienced in its right perspective and no question anymore is left to be answered) and as a result thereof in recollection all his former births passed before his eyes. He vividly recollected them all:
'Born in such a place, of such a name, and downwards to his present birth, so through hundreds, thousands, myriad, all his births and deaths he knew; countless in number were they, of every kind and sort; then knowing, too, his family relationships, great pity rose within his heart. This sense of deep compassion passed, he once again considered 'all that lives' (that is, he again experienced the ultimate truth of all that seems to live) and how they moved in six modes of life's transmigration, with no final end to birth and death;
Experience of Absolute Truth
Ashvaghosha recounts the experience of Gautam, who had become Buddha by now, thus in his ‘Budhcharitam’:
'He rose in consciousness through the planes and sub-planes of material existence. He linked the various component parts of self to the Self which uses them, and the Self by the faculty of Buddhi (intuition) to the Maha Boddhi (utmost wisdom) of which, in his inmost being, he was a manifestation on earth. Finally he bound in one the Self which still is human, and the SELF of pure Enlightenment. The journey was over, and a new Buddha, the fourth of his line, was born.
This was pure spiritual experience of the highest order - of Divine, called by Buddhist Sramanas the Law, Hindu Yogis Sachchiddanand and Sufis Allah - that a mortal being in human frame could have had. It was an experience that opened before Buddha the secret of the cycle of creation, existence and destruction of all that exists in universe.
This secret was neither meant then in that ancient age nor is it meant today in modem times to be divulged to ordinary and worldly man. Equally, then as well as today, neither has it been possible by any amount of intellectual exposition to understand it nor permissible by the rules applicable to that mystic and secret world to let worldly minds comprehend the Secret.
The Law of Buddha, Sachchiddananda of Yogis or Allah of Sufis is beyond words. Only one who attains it or Him knows the secret and the rest fight over words.
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