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Born as Prince Siddhartha in the year BC, after years of
waiting and yearning, on a full moon night, to his parents King Shuddhodana and
Queen Mahamaya, he was a unique child, even at birth. Carrying the 32 signs of
greatness and predicted to be the saviour of humankind by some, and a mighty
king of kings by others, Siddhartha proved both the prophesies to be true. In
his growing years, he was the ideal warrior prince, the pride of his father’s
eyes and later to his lovely wife Yashodhara, he was the devoted and sensitive
husband that all women dream of, but few are blessed with. Despite his father’s
extreme protection of him from seeing suffering of any kind, lest he move
towards fulfilling the latter prophecy of him being a thinker and philosopher,
even as a child Siddhartha by his very nature ever-questioned and pondered
about all phenomena around him.
Siddhartha wondered about all things- from social to
physical and natural to man-made, and he was hugely compassionate and
uncompetitive by nature. Siddhartha’s questions were not born out of the
natural curiosity of a young boy about the world around, but of a deeply
rational yet philosophical concern for the state of the world that he saw
around him, and his devastation was compounded in his youth when the wall of
protection from seeing suffering that his father had built around him,
crumbled.
It was an enlightenment, that shone not only his path on
earth, but also showed the way forward for all mankind, that would illuminate
the world with his teachings for thousands of years to come, as it gave birth
to the Buddha-a word that today symbolises truth, peace, love, compassion and
righteousness that he stood for, like no other. It is no wonder then that there
is a revival of the relevance of Buddha’s teachings and beliefs in the modern
world.
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