Nirvana, what is this Nirvana

Advice for spirituality

By Lakshman (Web Master)

Advice for spirituality. The core need for the such advice is to make not only our present life but also the existence beyond the present life also better.  No religion in this world says that every one can go to heaven. Lord Buddha the son of King Suddhodana who lived in India 2500 years ago had given a very agreeable and  rational explanation about not only how to live the present life better but also how to determine the next birth of a person than the astrological methods of prediction  which, I am going to talk about next.

“One day a group of monks approached the Buddha and wanted to know where, a person known to them (Sunakkatha) was born after his recent death. Buddha showed them a nearby tree and told, Monks, suppose you go and cut that tree down, where do you think that tree falls. Monks answered O, Lord Buddha there is no doubt that the tree will fall in the direction it is inclined or leaned now.

Then the Buddha answered as same as that, a person’s next birth is determined by the way he spends his current life. If he lives the present life in a way a god like being is living in earth with kindness love ect. Then he will return to the gods realm after his death because that is the most suitable place for him to go back . If he lived like a man then he will be born like a man, if he lived like an animal or a savage then will be born like an animal or a savage.” 

Therefore the simplest spiritual advice is, that what ever is your religion it does not matter but live in a manner that a great, compassionate being with godly qualities who had come back to earth for a few years to do some good according to the best of the ability and the circumstances (which could be good or bad as dictated by the previous karmas or the results of the actions from the past successful or unsuccessful missions) in order to return home after that period. Sure you will return to that place called heaven without much trouble. Only the name you call that place may differ according to your religion in this life time. 

Nirvana, what is this Nirvana

The first requirement for the beginning of the above realisation process is that the  understanding and the acquirement of the firm conviction, that there is a cyclic rebirth or the birth and death process and the attachment is the bond to the  above cyclic process and the Karma is the force that drives the cycle of birth and the death or the Samsara.

No way, it is easy for an ordinary man to understand the above, it requires a great deal of wisdom which is rare in a normal person. That is why the Lord Buddha first hesitated, whether to explain it to the  people who lived at that time 2500 years ago in India. Yet as it appeared later, even at that time, there were millions of ordinary people who understood that. Definitely there should be many at present time too who can make use of that guidance. 

By the good merits of the explaining the Dhamma from the best of my ability, which is the highest form of giving one can do. May my intellect shine as the brilliance of  the Sun at mid summer, so I can easily break my attachments and realize the nirvana. Merging with the highest forms of energy in the universe, where the other great great beings such as Buddhas , the non preaching or the silent Paccheka Buddhas and Arhaths had gone.  Never to be returned again. Thus not to be again limited and bound to an any form of a  body which is disease ridden, requires constant attention, feeding, which is impermanent, fragile,  ageing and death bound. 

Lakshman  22/5/2005 - Melbourne - Australia 

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