Buddha The Enlightened One :
Jatakas told the stories of the previous lifetimes of Siddhartha Gautama of the Sakya clan. In each of these lifetimes, he performed exemplary acts of compassion. Everything and everyone in the cosmos owed him something. To repay this debt, he was given a fine body and a fine mind and a fine family and great wealth. But instead of enjoying it, he brooded over his fortune. He noticed that not everyone had what he had; and what he had would not last forever. This led to contemplation, introspection and reflection. Wisdom dawned. He became the Buddha, the Enlightened One.
Wisdom gave him peace but it also revealed that others were not at peace. So in compassion, he became Bodhisattva, sprouting many arms, reaching out to every other living creatures, enabling each one to also reflect and realise, at their own pace and why fortune will forever wax and wane. Now beside him sat Tara, the feminine force who evokes compassion in him, forces him to acknowledge the others who are not-yet-Buddha.
Om Namah Shivay.
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