Correct
Buddhism
Buddhism
back to God
(This book, quoting scriptures
and authorities, proves beyond reasonable doubt that Buddhism stands for
Almighty God)
My Email: [email protected])
By Keerthi Kelegama
Printed and published by
Keerthi Kelegama, Author / PublisherLord Buddha Club, No.5. Third Floor, Pusa
Road, Karol Bagh, New Delhi 110 005, India
Copyright by Keerthi Kelegama
ISBN: 81 - 7525 - 505 - 6
Author’s other works:
1. Where Religions Agree 2. How
Premadasa and Dingiri Banda Manipulated Justice 4. Good-bye Chandrika
Comments:
Bishop Ezra Sargunam, M.A. D.D. Bishop/President, Evangelical Church of India (14/7/
2003)
In my opinion Keerthi has done an impartial job
in the assessment of the situation as it is and categorically proved to our
Buddhist brethren that Buddha definitely spoke of Almighty God and that he
showed that there is no salvation without Him.
In support of this has has quoted Mahatma
Gandhi, Dr. Sarvaalli Radhakishnan and also Anagarika Dharmapala, Sri Lanka’s
most revered Buddhist missionary, next to Arahant Mahinda who brought Buddhism
to Sri Lanka. More than all, he has quoted from Buddhist scriptures to back his
stand
Dr. S.M.Haldhar, Sr, Fellow, ICHR, Department
of Buddhist Studies, University of Delhi 110007 (15.10.04)
I have gone through Keerthi’s mind boggling book
titled: "Buddhism back to God". He had painstakingly consulted the
primary Pali sources to prove his point on the existence of Almighty God. I am
sure that this book would touch the believer mind. No doubt that some Theravdin
Buddhists of India, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Myanmar may even appeal to arrest
the writer of the book who has written it in fire-brand journalistic style. I
wish him luck
Email: [email protected]
Contents:
1. Buddha gives only 500 years
for pure Buddhism
2.New Buddhism discards vegetarianism
3. New Buddhism eschews forgiveness of sins
4. Buddha in comparison
5. Buddha avoided talking on God
6. Buddha upheld God’s existence
7. Laws of Nature means Laws of God
8. God carries out creation
9. No-soul theory debunked
10.From demigods to Almighty God
11.God extends life, advances death
12.Mishandling Buddha biography
13.For Buddhism to pick up
14. New techniques
15. My experience with God
A few paragraphs of the first chapter and 12th and 6th chapters are given here for easy perusal. If the full book consisting of all the 15 chapters consisting of 238 pages is needed, it could be purchased in book form or it could be made available via email etc. (Printed version cost Rs 400/- Indian rupees)
Buddha gives only 500 years for
pure Buddhism
Buddha said after 500 years of his passing away,
there would be no more proper Buddhism and Holy life.
His original words are: "If Ananda , women
have not received permission to renounce the world and enter the Homeless
State, the doctrine and discipline, proclaimed by Tathagatha, the holy life
would have lasted long and sublime Dhamma would have survived thousand years.
But since the women have entered the Homeless State, the Holy Life would not
last long and the sublime Dhamma would now remain only five hundred years"
(Buddha and His Teachings by Narada). The Buddha made these observations on
future repercussions after founding the Bhikkuni order for women to enter Holy
Life and Homeless State.
When Mahaha Pajapathi Gothami, sister of the
mother of Prince Siddhartha (Later became Buddha ) who brought up Prince
Siddhartha and Ven. Ananda, his closest disciple pressed on the Buddha to
establish a Bihikkuni order, which the Buddha many a occasions vehemently refused
but was finally compelled to grant the request. The above statement is what
Buddha made on the repercussions that would follow the decision.
So from this statement it is clear that that
sublime Buddhism as well as Holy life of the monks may not continue long.
What the Buddha said was correctly transpired.
Lord Buddha was born in 623 B.C and passed away in 543 B.C. By About 43 B.C.
Buddhism lost its sublime content and monks holy life diminished considerably.
Mishandling Buddha biography
Buddhist monks successfully mislead the
Buddhists into believing that only they had the monopoly for enlightenment. In
reality. they never had that since 500 years after Buddha’s passing away.
Prince Siddharth being born into a Hindu royal
family, at Kapilawastu, would have been given a very good grounding in Vedas
As quoted elsewhere, Dr. Rhys Davids says Buddha
was born and brought up a Hindu.
Lord Buddha’s father being a king, would have
sent Prince Siddharth to a Guru for studies which is normally the practice of
the kings but in Buddhist stories, these details were not given enough play to
show that there was no Hindu influence at all.
At that time there was no Bagavad Gita
separately. It was Adi Shakara who culled Gita out of Maha Bharatha . Of course
entire Gita was found in Maha Bharatha and Buddha would have read that and
assimilated the entirety of it before the age of 29 when he left his family and
took a life of Sanyas. The Buddha would have definitely knew about Rama Ravana
story too, and also he would have had discussions with erudite Hindu monks and
knew about the possibility of attaining God-realization (enlightenment) by
doing meditations in the jungle.
According to Budddhist tales, Siddarth
relinquished being the heir to the throne because at last stages of his family
life he saw, sick man, old man, dead man and Hindu monk respectively.
Why did King Suddhodan keep his son away from
such most important worldly knowledge on death, sickness, old age and possible
spiritual life if he wanted him to inherit the throne. There is no reason why
King Suddhodana prevent him from reading Vedic texts as well as getting worldly
knowledge which is a definite must to rule a country. If Angulimala’s parents
could send their son to a Guru why not King Suddhodana sent his beloved son to
a Guru. It is very clear from these details that good amount of his
biographical or autobiographical evidence is missing and there are very vide
gaps.
Arahant Mahinda Maha Thera would have passed
down that knowledge but Buddhist monks being interested in hiding the fact of
God-realization. being the real finality in the process of getting enlightenment,
suppressed vital facts and caricatured the rest.
We may assume that God realization is different
from enlightenment but Buddha before his enlightenment approached Hindu Gurus
like Alara Kalama and Uddakarama Putta, and that was for acquiring God
realization and nothing else. Alara Kalama and Uddakarma Putta would also have
told him that the God-realization was the final stage. His staying with them to
learn, showed his interest in getting God-realization. Fact remained that they
too were not God-realized and therefore, they could not make his disciple
evolve into achieving God-realization..
If one were to be definite of receiving
enlightenment and leave his kingdom, wife and child, one must be hundred per
cent sure that through the means of meditation etc., one can reach final human
perfection. He knew that to be God realization and that was why he went
searching for God realized masters.
This is a knowledge very well known throughout
India even Prince Siddhartha’s wife Yasodara and his father Suddhodana knew
that Siddarth went to jungle to get God-realization.
Alara Kalama taught Siddartha according to Ven.
Narada (Buddha and His teachings) to reach the realm of Nothingness which is
and advanced stage of concentration (Akincannayatana). According to Ven. Narada
Prince Siddhartha (Later Gautama Buddha) addressed his first Guru as
"Friend Kalama",
Then Siddhatha approached Uddakarama Putta,
another Guru and that is also for God-realization and nothing else. From him,
he learnt Realm of Neither Perception Nor Non Perception
(N’eversannan’asannayatana) and then he left that ascetic too.
Being placed on vital stage of spirituality,
with the help of earlier masters, he tried to build further on them to achieve
God- realization on his own, subjecting himself to physical torture, eating
very few things for o6 long years during which Siddarth supposedly made a
superhuman struggle through meditation,. fasting etc. etc. to achieve
God-realization.
One thing, Hinduism as well as Buddhism
unequivocally admit that the renunciation is the first requirement for
enlightenment and then celibate life, both of which were observed by Jesus
Christ who advised his disciples to follow.
Buddha could have got those most vital knowledge
for human perfection from Hinduism or directly from Almighty God as did Jesus
Christ and thousands of others before the advent of Buddha. According to
accepted biography, Siddarth saw a Hindu monk who was renunciant and celibate
who supposedly exercised most profound influence on his life to follow his
footsteps. So much so, that he supposedly renounced his kingdom, son and wife,
mainly for that reason.
"Buddha and His teachings" gives a
story how Siddarth went to Rajagriaha, capital of Magadha. There the King
Bimbisara seeing ascetic in Majestic appearance and dignified deportment,
invited him to the palace. And thereafter King after discourse invited him to
visit him after attaining the God-realization. Even the king knew nothing other
than God-realization as did Sidharhth who promised to do so. In accordance with
his promise, Gautama Buddha went with a large retinue of his Arahant disciples
from Gaya to Rajagriha.
The same chapter of the same book says:
"Once King Kosala Pasenadi was seated in the
company of the Buddha, he saw some ascetics with
hairy bodies and long nails passing by and rising from his seat respectfully,
saluted them calling out his name to them:" I am the King Kosala Pasenadi
Your Reverences" . When they had gone, he came back to the Buddha and
wished to know whether they were Arahants or those who were striving for
Arahantship. The Buddha explained that it was difficult for a ordinary laymen
enjoying material pleasures to judge whether others are Arahants or not..
All those events show that enlightenment was not
a monopoly of Buddhism. If those ascetics passed were enlightened it is clear
that they were not Buddhists. Then what was that enlightenment non-Buddhist
Hindu monks were having. It was nothing but God-realization. Then what was
Buddha having. That too was God realization. Because, from these events, it is
clear, that Buddha never talked of different enlightenment, and never denied
ascetics of other faiths having enlightenment.
There is nothing wrong in accepting what is good
and what is right from other faiths. Old testament of the Bible which is
definitely a document of the Jews is accepted by the Christians alike as true.
Both Jew and Christians accept Moses and hold him in high esteem as law giver.
Swami Vivekananda said: "Separation of
Buddhism from Brahminism was the cause of downfall of India. By this separation
both were the losers. Buddhism was deprived of the faith in God to which every
human being clings fondly and the Brahminism was deprived of the reforming
zeal, the wonderful sympathy and charity for everybody which Buddhism brought
to the masses" (Swami Vivekananda page 38 & 39).
Buddha rightly said that he was not teaching
anything new but interpreting what was already there. Entire spirit of Buddhism
is found in Vedas written some thousands of years before the arrival of
Buddhism. One example is the Middle path, only right path recommended by Buddha
to achieve enlightenment, is found in Gita 6:17 which says: "O’ Arjuna
this Yoga is not practicable to one who eats too much or too little. It is equally
impracticable to one who sleep too much or keeps awake too much. This path is
easy for one who avoids extremes and always keeps to the golden mean in food.
sleep, recreation – nay every blessed detail of his life. For such a yogi
sorrow shall cease."
Siddarth followed this Middle Path having read
that in Gita (At that time it was a part of Maha Bharatha) and reached
enlightenment after finding his own method of physical torture of six years to
be unsuitable. Later he preached the very same Middle Path for his disciples to
follow. It was not a new path for Sidddarth, under Hindu sages Alara Kalama and
Uddakarama Putta, he followed the same found in the Gita.
Buddha’s biography was certainly mishandled.
King Suddhodana who wanted his son Siddharth to inherit the throne would have
given him very good education instead of making him insulated from the
realities of life. If he were to know about dead person sick man and monk only
after reaching the age of 29 what kind of king, Prince Siddarth would have become,
How does he to face the realties of life more than all the realities of
state-craft. With the type of education, Siddarth supposedly received and
became King at the age of 25 and if there was a famine and plague and people
started to die in large scale, he would not know what to do.
King Suddhodana never placed his only son in
such pathetic plight by not giving all round knowledge in addition to depriving
him of vital knowledge which is a must for any living being existing on earth.
Monks who handled Buddha’s biography were the culprits.
At the time of fleeing away from the family, he
was not at all enlightened. 12 years of hectic luxurious mundane life along
with his beautiful wife, would have exhausted most of the spirituality in him.
Even otherwise, he naturally would have had enormous attachment and love for
his child as well as to his wife which could be shaken off only through
enlightenment.
Siddharth had no moral right to flee away from
wife Yasodara setting such a bad example to the world. At the time of marriage,
13 years before his Great Renunciation, he wold have promised Yasodara to be
her husband throughout lifetime and to look after her.
When she at last became pregnant 12 years after
her marriage to him, he got fed up of the life.Once somebody fathers a child,
it is his Karmic duty to look after the child. And living a sex life with a
woman for 12 years and thereafter leaving for no fault of hers, immediately
after producing a child, amounts to greatest of crimes, no matter he was going
in for enlightenment or not.
Buddha would never have given priesthood to
anybody shirking the responsibility of being a father, irrespective of his
leaving enough wealth for child’s material welfare. Because Buddha has no power
to wash off such a sin (crime), resulting in him being made unfit for
enlightenment. Only Almighty God can do that. Buddha was very strict that if a
Bhikku had sex with a woman, he would immediately be expelled from monkhood.
This crime of Sidddharth goes against the laws
enforced by the moral government of the universe carried out by the Almighty
Nature. Going against, that he can never get the enlightenment.
It was not the Buddha’s behavior that was wrong
but it was the biography that went wrong which was mishandled by the Buddhist monks
who did no know what was enlightenment and concocted whatever they thought that
could make the Buddhist devotees gulp down.
Instead of running away, Siddarth could have
definitely got released from wife Yasodara telling her that he did not have sex
urge any more or in the language of "I did not want to indulge in sex any
more because, I wanted enlightenment. You would be looked after by the
resources of our Kingdom and our offspring could inherit the throne." Then
Yasodara being an understanding lady would have allowed him to leave her
instead of living with an unwilling sex partner. If this happened, Siddarth
would not be not going against the Laws of Nature in which laws of Karma is
only a part.
But what exactly happened was Almighty Nature /
Almighty God who, having freed Siddarth from the Karmic bond. asked him to
leave the family life immediately and strive for God-realization on the promise
of it being granted in due course. For him to receive Buddhahood, (highest
level of realization) he had to strive strenuously. God would not give it on a
platter.
God had washed Siddarth’s attachment to the
child as well as to his wife Yasodara, as a concession to start his spiritual
quest immediately, otherwise no unenlightened individual who had had hectic sex
life for over twelve years, would or could leave the family immediately after
the birth of the child. He cannot wash off that love for the child and wife by
seeing a sick, old decrepit and dead persons in succession and finally seeing
monk. Nobody is prepared to buy such tales anymore.
Buddha’s entire life on earth, was according to
the plans of Almighty God.
According to the accepted Buddha biography, he
was instructed by Maha Brahma to take birth in this world to emancipate the
mankind which he did.
Even his marriage was also what God wanted.
Because his work was to span over a period of 45 years. His responsibility
being enormous, he would face intellectuals knowledgeable pundits and
enlightened monks with whom he had to argue even on sexual matters because he
was to enforce celibate life for his disciples on a large scale which was never
done before. Experience of married life being complete, God naturally released
Siddarth from his Karmic bond of being a father and husband.
Shankara who introduced formless God to
Buddhism, also faced such problems in his missionary work, getting into an
argument with a highly knowledgeable pundit on sex matters, The Hindu Pundit
told Shankara that he never had experience of sex or marital life and therefore
on that he could not be taken seriously.
Being taken aback, Shankara left the Pundit and
went with his disciples and came to a cave and there he moved out of his body
and entered into a body of a king who had died little earlier and revived his
body. This was done to experience sex and family life in order that he could
demolish the arguments of the learned Pundit.
But what happened after Shankara’s entry into
the king’s body was that the entire kingdom suddenly became prosperous and
subjects became quite contented as it was an unwritten law to happen so, when
an enlightened soul became king,
In a short period of time, ministers in the
king’s court realized that the present king was different, from the original
one who died, A sage who left his body, moving around in his astral self, would
have entered king’s body for a change.
They thought the best move was to destroy the
sage’s body before the person who was in the king’s body, move into his, So
they went all over searching for a ‘corpse’ to destroy it. Meanwhile Shankara’s
disciples went into the King’s court to remind him of the necessity of
returning to his own body. So Shankara left the king’s body and moved into his
own body to go directly to the pundit and demolished his arguments on sexual
matters.. The Pundit accepted all what Shankara said and became his disciple
thereafter.
Shankara’ allocated life span was only 16 years
but Almighty God extended it by another 16 years but he did not have time to
lead normal married life coupled with his missionary work and therefore God had
organized him a different path to experience sex life needed for his missionary
work. However, Siddarth (Buddha) was given 12 years of married life.
Thereafter, it was the God who made Siddarth to
leave the family giving him the wisdom and freedom from Karmic bond. There is
no automatic release from Karmic bond.
After going beyond river Neranjana, Siddarth was
ready to become a renunciant. Then it was Almighty God (Maha Brahma) who gave
him robes, begging bowl and other paraphernalia, creating them out of nothing,
to complete his renunciation and to give him the necessary mental strength to
engage in his spiritual journey which was by all means, a superhuman task.
When he was practicing austerities, his body
became so emaciated, reducing it to a mere skeleton. During this period, while
meditating under a tree, most of his food was what fell on to the begging bowl.
This went on for 06 years or so. It was Almighty God, or Maha Brahma in the
form of Almighty Nature who kept him alive otherwise he could have died
"thousand deaths" during that period.
Once you are in the jungle, you are totally in
the hands of Almighty God or in the hands of Almighty Nature. That is why
seekers of spiritual truth go to jungles, renouncing all what they have as did
Prince Siddartha. However life of all is in the hands of God.
After the attainment of God-realization, Buddha
thought, it would be difficult to teach the knowledge that he discovered, as it
was too deep for the people to understand. But it was on Maha Brahma’s
instructions, Buddha commenced preaching his doctrine. It is clear from this
biographical data that there would be no Buddhism without Maha Brahma and that
means without Almighty God.
After getting enlightenment, he first thought of
passing that knowledge to his two Gurus namely Alara Kalama and Uddakarama
putta . Finding that they were already dead,. he thought of teaching the five
monks who attended to his needs during his super human struggle for
enlightenment, torturing the body.
But he never thought for a moment of finding the
monk whose serene influence supposedly made him renounce his kingdom, wife and
child. Because as I told earlier, it was Almighty God who advised him to renounce
the kingdom, wife and child releasing him from his Karmic bond.
Buddha upheld God’s existence
The Buddhism accepts subsidiary gods and for
that there is no dispute. If there are subsidiary gods, there is a strong case
for the Almighty God who exercises authority and clout over them.
Buddhism now has two divisions namely; Mahayana
and Theravda. Both divisions do not accept Almighty God but some minor sects in
Mahayanic Buddhism accept Almighty God.
However, there are highly refined top Buddhists
belonged to both divisions roughly forming one percent of the total Buddhist
population, who through their own subjective experience have come to conclusion
about the existence of Almighty God but they do not want to talk about it
publicly due to religious, cultural and social obligations. Other reason being
that they have not gone well into the subject matter to bring in overwhelming
evidence to prove the belief in addition to having subjective verification.
One such person is Anagarika Dharmapala, the
foremost Buddhist missionary of Sri Lanka, who believed in the existence of
Almighty God of whom he said the following: "Lord Almighty, Thine is the
power and the glory to you I bow."
The "Return to Righteousness", a
collection of speeches and essays and letters of Anagarika Dhamapala – edited
by Doctor Ananda P.Guruge, printed by the government press on September 17,
1971 – carried the letter of Anagarika Dharmapala which contained the quoted
paragraph. The letter dated 14th August 1917 was sent from 44, College Square,
Culcutta requesting Sri Lanka government to revoke its order of internment and
release him from confinement in Culcutta. The full paragraph is given
hereunder:
"Be pleased to liberate me from prison and
kindly allow me to spend remaining part of my life visiting holy shrines at.
Kusinara, Rajagriha. Buddhagaya, Benares, Nalanda Ajantha. Sanchi. Ellora,
Taxila Bhilsa, all these places are under the
Archeological Department of India. Lord
Almighty, thine is the power and the glory and to you I bow and this shall be
my last letter to liberate this filthy breaking body of mine. (Page 723 para 3)
On December 2003, I went to a Buddhist temple in
Varanasi town run by a Mahayanic section of Buddhists in Taiwan. They say
Maitree Buddha was already born in Thaiwan And he is propagating his Dharma for
the salvation of the mankind. Through the trained teachers, Maitree Buddha
gives Mantras for the devotees to mediate upon in order to expedite evolution
and reach God-realization / enlightenment. One of their literature titled:
"The heavenly Grace and Three Treasures’ which carried the following:
"Let me begin by explaining to you the great Tao and its objectives. To
understand the objectives, we must first understand the veneration of the
Heavenly Decree.
"The Heavenly Decree is the sovereignty of
God, also known as infinite Hwang Mu or the Supreme Lord from which all the
living forms are created. And by the Heavenly Decree of God, Buddha Maitreya is
commissioned to disseminate the teachings of God and propagate universal
salvation. His benevolent demeanor and compassion inspired generations,
throughout the universe."
If Buddha comes again, he has to get the
knowledge once again from God and then disseminate it and in this respect what
Maitreya Buddha doing is hundred per cent correct. Because now the pure
knowledge is not available according to Gotama Buddha himself of which I quoted
at the beginning of this book,
Dr. Rhys Davids who translated most of the
Buddha’s original teachings (Tripitaks) into English which alone amounted to
yeomen service in propagating Buddhism in the West, observes very rightly:
"We should never forget that Gautama was born and brought up a Hindu and
lived and died a Hindu. His teaching, being far-reaching and original, it was
really subversive of the religion of the day, was Indian throughout. He was the
greatest, wisest and best of the Hindus." (Davids Dr. Rhys Buddhism
pp116-17)
From the above statement of Dr. Rhys Davids who
has very well understood and translated most of Buddha’s teachings (Tripitakas)
into English calling Buddha the greatest, wisest and best Hindu means that
Buddha was definitely a God-realized person because that was the ultimate end
of Hinduism.
From the above statement of Dr. Rhys Davids who
has very well understood and translated all the Most of Buddha’s teachings
(Tripitakas) into English calling Buddha the greatest, wisest and best Hindu
means that Buddha was definitely a God-realized person because that was the
ultimate end of Hinduism.
So two top Buddhists, I quoted to prove that
they believed Almighty God.
Awakening Buddhahood means awakening Dhamma and
truth. So if you are fully aware of Dhamma, you become it. Hence, Buddha was
spoken as Dhamma become (Dhammabhuta). In original Buddhist Pali Canon, Buddha
was quoted thus: ‘Dhamma Kayo Brahma Kayo." That means person who has a
Dharmic body, has a Brahmic body. Brahma is the creator, according to Hinduism.
Writing an article to Artibus Asse (Vol 11 Nos.
1-2, 1948) Ascons, Switzerland. Isaline B.Horner says the following on Buddhism
and Buddha disciples:
We hear of the disciples who lives with the self
become Brahman and Arahants who are Brahman become. This shining immortal
person who in Dharma who in reference to oneself exist in virtuousness. He is
this Athman, this Brahman, this all. On this point, the conception of
Upanishads and early Buddhism appear comparable, says Horner.
Early Buddhism should have been the same or
closer to what Buddha really preached than modern Buddhism and its
interpretations.
In order to debunk the concept of God Ven Narada
quoted Buddha on so-called creator God from Patika Sutta thus:
"On this O’ disciple that being who was
the first born think thus: "I am Brahma
great Brahma, the vanquisher, all seer, the Assigner, the Master of myself,
father of all that are to be. By me, all these things are created. ( Buddha and
His Teachings by Ven Narada Chapter 23 Part 14 ).
In the same chapter, Ven. Narada quote Patika
Sutta as Buddha saying (para 15): "And those being as themselves who arose
after him, they too think thus: "This worthy must be Brahma, The Creator,
The Maker and so on." Beings arose after Brahma includes Brahma himself
who thereby implied that he too recognized the creator. Here Ven. Narada in
order to mislead the reader or perhaps unknowingly confused the term Brahma.
There are two Brahmas of whom Ven Narada conveniently forgot to explain. Para
Brahma who is also known as Nirguna Brahma, is identified as the Supreme God in
the Bhagavad Gita to be formless. And there is just Brahma or Saguna Brahma,
according to Hinduism, created this material universe on the orders of the
Supreme God.
On the 10th canto 14th chapter 10th verse of the
Srimad Bhagavatam, Brahma says: " O’ Infallible one., I am born in the
mode of passion and therefore I have been falsely proud of being the creator of
this material world. My false pride is like dense darkness. I had become blind.
In my blindness, I was considering myself competitor to you, the Supreme Personality
of Godhead. My God. even though, I am accepted as creator of this universe, I
am eternally your servant. Therefore kindly always be compassionate towards me.
and excuse me in that way." This statement by Brahma shows that, he was
not the Supreme God.
The Nectar of Devotion by Swami Prabhupada
quotes one devotee (Enlightened one) as saying: My dear Almighty God when you
order Brahma, now you may create the universe and when you order Shiva now you
dissolve the material manifestations, it was you who does that." It was
clear from this quote, that, though Brahma is called creator God, he is
actually not the creator. He is definitely not the Almighty God. Buddha never
referred to him as Almighty God either.
In his Book, ‘Buddha and His Teachings" Ven
Narada says: some scholars assert that Buddha was silent on this important
question ( Chapter 23 para 2). Here the important question means Almighty
Creator God.
Though Ven. Narada did not agree with the
scholars that Buddha was silent on God, he never brought hard facts to prove
otherwise. Therefore he had no right to teach that Buddha spoke of
non-existence of God.
Buddha Krishna and Jesus Christ were extremely
close to Almighty God. Divine presence would have been maximum in Buddha, Jesus
Christ and Krishna. Percentage of divine presence in |Buddha and Krishna was so
high, by mere sight of them, some devotees who were Karmically set, got
enlightened. It had some percentage of the effect of seeing Almighty God
himself. Jesus could cure almost any body and revive dead persons whom he
wants. One woman by mere
touch of Jesus’ garment was cured of her life
long bleeding problem.
My reader should understand one thing very
clearly. God realization is the final stage of spiritual perfection. Even Lord
Buddha could not achieve that unless he is Karmically set and his sins are
washed off. Hundred per cent god-realization is achieved with the
enlightenment. Just because, one believes in God, he cannot leave his wealth
and strive for enlightenment and self-realization. Because renunciation is also
a ‘must’ for enlightenment which is very well emphasized in Christianity and
Hinduism and Buddhism.
History tells us that there were very long
periods of drought. Some of the Buddhist monks died in it before passing the
knowledge to their disciples in its pristine purity. Some left for India with
the Altruistic intention of preserving it and there they merged with the ocean
of Hinduism.At one stage the Blessed One was staying in the Simsapa groove at
Kotambi. Then the Blessed one taking a few Simsapa leaves in his hand and asked
the monks: " What do you think monks, which are the more numerous The
Simsapa leaves which, I have in my hand or those up in the trees of the groove
?" Monks replied: "Lord the Blessed one is holding very few leaves.
Those up in the trees are far more numerous"
"In the same way monks, there are so many
more things that I have found out but not revealed to you. What l revealed to
you is only a very little (Samytta Nikaya LXVI)
Why did Buddha tell this bringing Simsapa
leaves? In short he says that the vital portion of his knowledge is not given
to the monks. What is this vital portion? It is about Almighty God. I have
explained the reasons elsewhere in this book as to why he has passed that
knowledge in its truest form, through the highly evolved monks without
committing them in Sutras. Simsapa story was given because he wanted the future
monks to realize that he did not emphasize very much on God and there is a kind
of "gap" in his teachings except for those who are really on the
proper path to Self-realization.
And when these questions comes up in a future
date and proves beyond reasonable doubt, the Buddha wanted the Buddhists monks
to admit them to be true forming vital part of his teachings. Even Buddhist scriptures
are quoted to prove the same.
God created worlds planets etc, etc, and every
thing in on and out of them inclusive of living beings and matter except
Himself. So God is called the uncreated, the unmade, the unproduced, the
unborn, the unoriginated, the unformed.
Jamzhed fozder who wrote God of Buddha page 154:
"There is or monks, the unborn, unoriginated, unformed. Were there not O’
monks this unborn, unoriginated uncreated, unformed, there would have been no
escape from thee world
of born, originated, created, formed."
(Udana Vaggo 80,81) In short it means God is there Without God, there is no
escape for the living beings.
Udna Vagga of Dammapada translated by W.
Wooodville Rockhill and printed in 1892 in its chapter 26 Buddha is quoted
thus:"
Verse 21:"Bixus, the uncreated, the
invisible, the unmade the elementary the unprotected exists as well as the
created the visible, the made the conceivable, the compound the produced and
there is uninterrupted connection between the two.
Verse 22; "Bixus if the uncreated, the
invisible, the unmade, the elementary, the unproduced, was nonentity I could
not say that the result of their connection form cause to the effect with the
created, the visible, the made the compound, the conceivable is final
emancipation"
Verse 23: "Bixus it is because of the real
existence of the uncreated, the invisible, the elementary, the unproduced that
I say that the result of their connection from the cause to the effect with the
created, the visible, the made, the compound, the conceivable is final
emancipation." The meaning of this verse is that God is there and without
union with him, there is no emancipation.
The same quote from Udana, Dammapada, carrying
Buddha’s word ( page 173 of : Buddhism - non theistic religion by Helmut Von
Glassenapp), says thus: "There is monks unborn, unoriginated, uncreated,
unformed. If monks there were no unborn, unoriginated, uncreated, unformed,
there would likewise be no escape from the born, originated, created, formed.
But O’ monks, as there is this unborn, unoriginated, uncreated unformed,
therefore escape from the born, created formed is possible."
Chapter 26, Brahmana Vaggo of Dhmmapada quotes
Buddha thus; " O’ Braham, cut off the stream, be energetic, drive away
desires. Knowing the distraction of All that is made (or elimination of
existence), you know the uncreated, O’ Brahamin." Here you know the
uncreated" means, you know the Almighty God.