Himalayan Times (1960)

May 22, 1960 Sw-iclo...... (Im» Jievea

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to him. His followers in- At K ipilavastu. ha and advice to the monks,

creased in number and atayad in the Nyag- Spbbadra, tbe wandering

manv monastic* centres rodba grove outside tbe asoeticj visited hftn to

ere*' up. Ananda, his palace and gave his tea- li-ctmm his last direot

fnvou'ite disciple and cousin, ohing and counsel to all disciple I he • a»Ur thru

always attended on him with his people. asked hie discipld lo

loving ere and often too'; During hi. Wg miuit " kdcu^" *nd

the liberty of asking him y 0f forty year., d.ffioulli*., thai, h. might,

for clearer and simpler wherever the M.eter had removethem.1heyk.pt

answers. Hi* .other well- , ,, turn,d t0 tilent.

known direct disciples were hjm for hj, 00u„tJi Um. Tben the Blt8„d 0[e

Kasyapa, bariputta, <M»»gl* 0bing and tuiritual aolaoe, addrei.ed hi- brethren:

gallana and the nun (,au- „8 „omtn who .And now> brethrrn, I

tami. The king of Mathura, h,d ,0,t b,r . uke my of %ou

Avantiputra, was also an depresaed oourteaanAmara. All the ccnsiilutuls of

aruent disciple. the wdy Vi.akha of Vai.ali being am Lran.ilory.

Buddha also took ioto who was ill trusted in the Work out your talvatiih

his spiritual fold, his home of her father in- with diligence "'(Maha-

father hit step mother, [aw, tbe trea»»rf r Migara, parinirvanu Sutta, VI. 1 )

wife and ton. At his and other* When the He entered into deep

f*lher'e wifh, he returned „g. d parents of Yasa^, uibditation and passed into

to KauilaVRntu, end taught „ yonnu ms« of V«r»n»«i the etate ol M« haparinir.

them the Waj of Dhamma w r>> unhappy his vaua. *4rtl

at hit loving gift to decision to leave hit horr.e

them. Wben the Buddha »nd become a monk and . »L "•""•""hie

mat the prince... his wife, religious ini sior.arv. Bud- coincidence that the U.ree

► he knelt and embr.cea dha adv.^d him 'to stay primary event, ofbi. I.ft-

hi. feet. H- comforted at home and look alter hx* b,,t0- ™lhzbteDmeut

her and told her that hit parent. To Madia- and patsing-all occurred

the way he had discovered eiplet, Buddha loved to °» tDe »ame day of the

was equally important for narrate his hard early year.

bar. 1 struggle, toward. nligh- Buddha the Enligbte-

She was of the tame tenment (These i.ecountt ned hat been known alto

age at the Buddha and »re found in the Birth cr „„ the Sakya Muni, tba

during the next thirtv- Jataka stories of tbe lk(ra cf ti»e Sakya clan,

five yean of htT life, Buddhist tcripture) and at Tathagata, be who

she was a revered mam. His la.' illness was has arrived at the Truth,

ber of the Bud.iba Sangb caused1 by a meat dish His ,eachin W9r.

8he p.ss.d away two offered to him by a na,|ded down orft|)

year, before Buddha. On huuteman but the Matter . fh h te»oheri and

the day of her pa.sinr. w»rDed the "'soiples pupUs. oolleoted and cho-

ah. proatrated h.r.elf against blaming him. A. ^b three councils,

before him hi paying her he grew worse he lay mJ aboutfollr

last homage, and that down in a grove between oeDturje. later in Ceylon,

night in deep meditation two tall and thady Sal

paa.ed on to tbi height. trees. He spent his la.t ( To bt Conhnutd )

of Nirvana. hours in giving direction! • • #