Today signifies the birth, enlightenment and death of one of the greatest GURU, who's teaching prescribed to ones conduct.
Moving away from worship based salvation, Sidhartha's spiritual journey brought him to conclude that ones 'just' conduct would determine his/her salvation within.
So what do we mean by just conduct? To that the Gita says, "Do everything you have to do, but not with greed, not with ego, not with lust, not with envy, but with love, compassion, humility and devotion." Devotion here refers to committing with whole heart and effort and not to be mistaken for it's literal meaning.
But isn't all these obvious as part of an evolved human socio-psychological construct? However what ought to be and and what it seems to be, are poles apart. I guess we all know what we need to do. to create a just society, but we stop short from executing it because the "maya" of self centredness envelopes our thoughts and actions.
We are so caught up with day to day survival that we fail to live. When personal conduct is governed by actions needed to survive, opportune to stray may not even be seen as a moral issue.
So a day like Wesak, should be an avenue to jolt our existence to remind us of the "maya" that has drifted humanity apart.
Sidhartha journeyed to decipher the dotted line between birth and death, and he discovered the truth of living, he says, "No one saves us but ourselves, No one can and no one may, We ourselves must walk the path."
So on this auspicious day, whilst wishing each other, and singing praises of the Buddha, I believe a little reflection on our thoughts and actions would definitely pave the way to create a just society as epitomized by Ambedhkar, "A just society is that society in which ascending sense of reverence and descending sense of contempt is dissolved into the creation of a compassionate society."
10 May 2017
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