Lessons from Buddha's Enlightenment

If any sincere seeker is reading this blog and possesses the eternal quest of knowing the truth then I have some knowledge which I should reveal to the whole world. My intention is simple. Extremely simple. I am writing about spirituality because, I know there are some fine souls trapped in the body and trying to get out of this bondage of karma. I am nothing, I am just a medium. The knowledge is coming from brahman, I write it on the blog, reader reads it, then it goes into his/her heart and from his/her heart it goes back to brahman. So, the knowledge travels from Brahman to Brahman via me and you. Let it travel. Don't interfere. Society has badly prepare you to interfere the natural flow. Drop it.

In this post I will write about how Buddha got enlightenment. There is high probability that if you do the same thing what Buddha did you will attain the truth. But, Buddha did very tough penance. He was not even taking food. You may not be able to do that. If you can do that, fine, go ahead. If you can't do that then read this post carefully. So, I devised a technique by which the extreme penance can be relaxed as follows:

Buddha did very tough spiritual practice for 6 years continuously. He met many gurus but no one could satisfy his thirst of truth. Finally, he became his own guru. However, this doesn't lessen the importance of guru. Buddha's case is special. He was very advanced seeker. Already almost enlightened. So, he may not need a guru. But, most probably you would need a guru. I am not talking about guru in this post. The trick is you don't need to do exactly what Buddha did for 6 years. Just do what Buddha did on the day of his enlightenment. If you can generate the same condition within you as Buddha generated on the day of his enlightenment you would achieve same. So, what did Buddha do on the day of enlightenment? That's all you need to know. And do atleast that. Buddha did only one thing that day. Only one thing. Before that day he was doing lots and lots of thing. And nothing was happening. He was doing and it was not happening. He stopped doing and it happened. Why he stopped doing is not that important. Important is he stopped doing. He stopped everything and it happened. It looks funny, but that's how it is and that's how it should must be. If you also stop, it will happen to you also. Whole life we work like a donkey and nothing happens. If it will happen, it will happen quickly otherwise it may not happened in billions and trillions of life. Like it happened to King Janak. One of the fastest realization ever happened in the history. It happened to him within a second. That's what is the power of Gyan. Gyan is most powerful that's why fastest. Bhakti can be slow. But to eternity slow or fast doesn't matter. Slow and fast is for you. The eternity has nothing to do with slow or fast. So, Buddha's mind has nothing to do that day. He was awake and mind had nothing to do. So, his mind simply disappeared and truth appeared. Mind always needs an object. Mind cannot work without an object. So, once the object is dropped mind simply disappears. And once mind disappears truth appears. Remember, that's why I had said - Either you exist or God exists. It fully applies to Buddha. When Buddha was existing, that is his mind was existing, that is he was doing something, then God, that is truth never existed for him. When his mind dropped, that is he disappeared, truth as God existed. When we are in wake state we have always something to do. Always. Out of your entire life , if you can mange to get few seconds in which you have nothing to do, that is your mind has nothing to do, you are blessed. Before that day, although Buddha had dropped, family, kingdom, fame, etc but he was still with his mind. He was keeping his mind, his ego with him. But, that day he dropped everything. He dropped to the extent that he had nothing left to drop anymore and that's how he got the truth. So, if you can simulate Buddha's day of enlightenment in your life you might attain truth.