Bodhisattva : In the Mahayana School, Buddhists or saints, who have qualified themselves to attain Nirvana in this life but voluntarily forego that state in order to help their fellowmen to attain it, are called Bodhisattvas. They receive veneration, respect, & worship like that given to Gautama Buddha himself. “Love is the turning of the Self from its false self in the mind or body to its true Self in another…. So is it finally with the lover of the whole world, of whom the mighty type is Buddha, the one unapproachable ideal of Divine Love in man, he who turned from perfect divine bliss as he had turned from perfect human bliss that not he alone but all natures might be saved. To see your Self in all creatures & all creatures in your Self – that is the unshakable foundation of all religion, love, patriotism, philanthropy, humanity, of everything which rises above .selfishness & gross utility.” [SABCL Vol.12:484]
... peaks on this mountain are sacred. Make pilgrimages to its holy places following the instructions of the mountain gods. Train hard like this each and every day. This is the practice of Never-Despise-Bodhisattva. Your sole practice is to be the veneration of all things; through it you will realize the True Dharma."... Following his formal ordination in 856, the twenty-five-year-old priest built a hermitage ...
... and powers. II. Aid for the Development of Value-Consciousness and Experience: 1. Calm and intimate company of plants, trees and flowers. 2. A study of the: (a) Stories of Bodhisattva from the Jatakas. (b) Parables from the Bible. (c) Questions put to Yuddhishthira on the bank of the lake and his answers. (d) Messages received by Prophet Mohammad ...
... earth-life, even with all its present limitations. Karma is not to be avoided, either when we are engaged in inner development, or when the development is complete. Even the Buddha must become the 'Bodhisattva', give up his hard-won 'Arhatship', and return to the fellowship of other human beings, not only those who a Bodhisattvas like him, but also those who are yet blindly chained to the revolving ...
... in the past. Sri Aurobindo thinks not only of individual superman but also of a race of supermen. The collectivity is conceived to evolve gradually to a higher stage of life and being. When the Bodhisattva resolves not to get into Nirvana (final fulfilment) until all others are made ready for the same, the stress is purely on individual liberation, one by one. The idea of a society of the liberated ...
... psychological states and powers. Aids for the Development of Value-Consciousness and Experience Calm and intimate company of plants, trees and flowers. A study of the: Stories of Bodhisattva from the Jatakas. Parables from the Bible. Questions put to Yuddhishthira on the bank of the lake and his answers. Messages received by Prophet Muhammad from the Angel. ...
... II. Aid for the Development of Value-Consciousness and Experience Page 94 1. Calm and intimate company of plants, trees and flowers; 2. A study of the : (a) Stories of Bodhisattva from the jatakas. (b) Parables from the Bible. (c) Questions put to Yudhishthira on the bank of the lake and his answers. (d) Messages received by Prophet Muhammad from the Angel ...
... supra-human, not because there is a lack or deficiency in the human feeling, but because there is a heightening and a transcendence in the consciousness and being. To man, to human valuation, the Bodhisattva may appear to be greater than the Buddha; even so to the sick a physician or a nurse may seem to be a diviner angel than any saint or sage or perhaps God himself – but that is an inferior view-point ...
... that Buddha did exist whereas there is no proof of his previous births, of the existence of other Bodhisattvas. Only after Gautama Buddha appealed did we come to know that he was the thirty-second Bodhisattva, while Dipankar was the first. But all that depends on who has said it and whether there is any proof of it. DR. MANILAL (to Sri Aurobindo): Do you disbelieve it? SRI AUROBINDO: Disbeliefis ...
... to be done, and Thou saidst to me, "Be the instrument of which I have need." And is not this the last renunciation, to renounce identification with Thee .... 15 Didn't the Buddha, the Bodhisattva, deliberately renounce Nirvana to be able to return to this sullied earth and save the souls of his fellow human beings? Like Buddha, Mirra too, by her firm renunciation only illustrates what ...
... one finds the Bodhisattvas (who stand for saints as in all other religions), all the previous Buddhas who are also like some sort of demigods or gods. I don't know if you have ever had a chance to visit a Buddhist temple of the North (I saw them in China and Japan), for you enter halls where there are innumerable statuettes—all the Bodhisattvas, all the disciples of those Bodhisattvas, all the forces ...
... There is a controversy here. Of course, Alexandra belonged to the Buddhism of the South, which is very rigid and absolutely rejects all the fancies of the Buddhism of the North with its innumerable bodhisattvas and all the stories (they've got so many stories! pulp novels). And she rejected all that, saying it wasn't part of Buddha's authentic teaching. Buddha said that the world, this terrestrial world ...
... dedicated to truthfulness; stories of Prahlada and Dhruva indicate how even in childhood spiritual aspirations can reach the heights of maturity. The story of Buddha along with a number of stories of Bodhisattvas illustrate a number of psychological elements that are at work in the development of human personality. Arjuna's hesitation at the beginning of the war of Mahabharata can easily illustrate the ...
... that beings also exist now who call the future down from celestial heights in ways which are clearly not a matter of religion or spirituality. One might suppose that certain beings like the bodhisattvas in Buddhist tradition, having attained liberation in other lives, have been reincarnated among us to lead an existence the same as ours. Their former asceticism enables them to reach without harm ...
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