08 01 2012 LESSON 488 Dhammapada
Verse 30 Magha VatthuMindfulness
Made Him Chief Of Gods
Appamadena1
maghava
devanam setthatam gato
appamadam pasamanti
pamado garahito sada.
Verse
30: Through mindfulness (in doing meritorious deeds) Magha became king of the
devas. Mindfulness is always praised, but negligence is always blamed.
Virtue, concentration,
discernment: one in whom these are well-developed, passing beyond Mara’s
domain, shines, shines like the sun.
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LESSON
488
Practice a Sutta a Day
Keeps Dukkha Away
Buddhist Festivals
are always joyful occasions. Typically on a festival day, lay people will go
the local temple or monastery and offer food to the monks and take the Five
Precepts and listen to a Dhamma talk. In the afternoon, they distribute food to
the poor to make merit and in the evening join perhaps in a ceremony of
circumambulation a stupa three times as a sign of respect to the Buddha,
Dhamma, Sangha. The day will conclude with evening chanting of the Buddha’s teachings
and meditation.
Buddhist New Year starts on the
first full moon day in January (9-1-2012 13:39 Hrs) is celebrated for three
days.
Uttar Pradesh Chief
Minister and next Prime Minister of
PraBuddha Bharath Ms Maha Mayawatiβs birth day is on 15-01-2012 of this first
Lunar Month being celebrated all over the country. The sarvajan Samaj will gift
another term of Chief Ministership of Uttar Pradesh on 04-03-2012 to Ms Maha
Mayawati.
The Karnataka BSP
will celebrate Ms Maha Mayawatiβs Birthday on 15-01-2012 at BSP Head Office at
11:00AM.
First phase of Uttar Pradesh polls rescheduled
The first phase of Assembly polls in U.P. to be held on
February 4 has been rescheduled and fresh date will be announced soon,
the Election Commission said on Sunday citing uncertainty about the date
of βBarawafatβ festival, the birth anniversary of Prophet Mohammad,
which may also fall on the same day.
The poll panel
said the law and order enforcing agencies and District Election Officers
of the state had also referred to the possibility of the Barawafat
festival coinciding with the with the first phase of polls, during the
Commissionβs two-day review meeting in Lucknow last week.
A poll panel official told PTI that a revised schedule will be announced soon.
βThe
Commission has on Sunday decided that the notification for 60 Assembly
constituencies going for poll on February 4 shall not be issued on
January 10 as scheduled. This is due to uncertainty about the date of
βBarawafatβ festival which may also fall on February 4,β an EC statement
said.
βThe law and order enforcing agencies and DEOs
of Uttar Pradesh also raised this point during Commissionβs review
meeting at Lucknow on January 6 and 7. The revised schedule for 1 st
phase ACs (60 ACs) will be announced by the Commission separately,β it
said.
The Commission also requested Governor of Uttar
Pradesh not to issue the notification for 1st Phase scheduled to be
notified on January 10.
According to the earlier announcement, the Uttar Pradesh elections were scheduled for seven phases between February 4 and 28.
The Uttar Pradesh administration on Sunday started covering the the
statues of Chief Minister Mayawati and her party symbol elephant.
Food
Security Bill is impractical, says Mayawati
Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati
Lucknow:
Terming the proposed Food Security Bill as impractical and an election stunt of
the Congress, Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati on Thursday said that it
would put an additional burden on state governments.
“Without
making proper arrangements for foodgrains and finances, an effort to get such a
bill passed is only an election stunt of the Congress,” Mayawati said in a
release.
“In
case required amount of foodgrains is not provided to the eligible people, they
would have to be given food security allowance which would have to be borne by
the states thus putting additional financial burden on them,” she said.
She
said that it also proposes setting up state food security commissions and all
its financial burden would also have to be borne by the states besides it would
require finances for computerisation and construction of warehouses in large
numbers.
Stressing
that proposed bill would not prove to be beneficial for the poor as was the
case with several of the ongoing welfare schemes of the central government.
The BSP
supremo alleged that since the number of BPL families has not been revised
large number of poor would remain deprived of this scheme.
Mayawati to campaign in
Punjab on Jan 21-22
Mayawati to
campaign in Punjab on Jan 21-22
BSP Supremo Mayawati will address four rallies in Punjab on January 21
and 22, even as the party hopes to fare better in the
state assembly elections on January 30.
BSP MP and national general secretary Narender Kashyap said the Uttar
Pradesh chief minister will address rallies at Kharar in Mohali and in
Nawanshahar on January 21.
On the next
day, she will address meetings in Muktsar and at Chhapar
in Sangrur districts.
Kashyap said his party would make significant gains in the Punjab polls.
The party released a list of 21 candidates in addition to the names
for 90 candidates announced earlier for the 117-member House.
Verse 30. Mindfulness Made Him Chief Of Gods
Heedfulness is always
praised,
heedlessness is ever blamed.
By heedfulness did Magha go
to lordship of the gods.
Explanation:
The
brahmin youth Magha, through his mindfulness, was born as the Chief of Gods.
Therefore mindfulness is always praised, and sloth and unmindfulness are always
condemned.
Dhammapada Verse 30
Magha Vatthu
Appamadena1
maghava
devanam setthatam gato
appamadam pasamanti
pamado garahito sada.
Verse
30: Through mindfulness (in doing meritorious deeds) Magha became king of the
devas. Mindfulness is always praised, but negligence is always blamed.
1. appamadena:
through mindfulness; i.e., mindfulness in doing meritorious deeds. In the above
story, Magha, the young man from Macala village, by cleaning and clearing land
and making roads was reborn as Indra or Sakka, king of the devas. (The devas
are celestial beings.)
The
Story of Magha
While
residing at the Kutagara monastery near Vesali, the Buddha uttered Verse (30)
of this book, with reference to Sakka, king of the devas.
On one
occasion, a Licchavi prince, named Mahali, came to listen to a religious
discourse given by the Buddha. The discourse given was Sakkapanha Suttanta. The
Buddha spoke of Sakka vividly in glowing terms; so, Mahali thought that the
Buddha must have personally met Sakka. To make sure, he asked the Buddha, and
the Buddha replied, “Mahali, I do know Sakka; I also know what has made
him a Sakka.” He then told Mahali that Sakka, king of the devas, was
in a previous existence a young man by the name of Magha, in the village of
Macala. The youth Magha and his thirty-two companions went about building roads
and rest houses. Magha took upon himself also to observe seven obligations.
These seven obligations are that throughout his life, (1) he would support his
parents; (2) he would respect the elders ; (3) he would be gentle of speech;
(4) he would avoid back-biting; (5) he would not be avaricious, but would be
generous; (6) he would speak the truth; and (7) he would restrain himself from
losing his temper.
It was
because of his good deeds and right conduct in that existence that Magha was
reborn as Sakka, king of the devas.
Then
the Buddha spoke in verse as follows:
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Verse 30: Through |
At the
end of the discourse Mahali attained Sotapatti Fruition.
Β§ 59. {Iti 3.10; Iti 50}
This
was said by the Blessed One, said by the Arahant, so I have heard: “Endowed with three qualities a monk has
passed beyond Mara’s domain and shines like the sun. Which three? There is the
case where a monk is endowed with the aggregate of virtue of one beyond
training [i.e., an arahant], the aggregate of concentration of one beyond
training, the aggregate of discernment of one beyond training. Endowed with
these three qualities a monk has passed beyond Mara’s domain and shines like
the sun.”
Virtue, concentration,
discernment: one in whom these are well-developed, passing beyond Mara’s
domain, shines, shines like the sun.