THE BUDDHIST ON LINE GOOD
NEWS LETTER
COURSE PROGRAM
LESSONS 547
Practice a Sutta a Day
Keeps Dukkha Away
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With no beliefs, the Unmade known,
with fetters finally severed,
with kammas cut and craving shed,
attained to humanityβs heights.
Explanation: He
has no faith in anybody but in himself. He is aware of deathlessness - the
unconditioned. He is a breaker of connections, because he has severed all
worldly links. He has destroyed all the opportunities for rebirth. He has given
up all desires. Because of these, the arahat, is a truly noble person.
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Dhammapada Verse 97
Sariputtatthera Vatthu
Assaddho akatannu ca
sandhicchedo ca yo naro
hatavakaso vantaso1
sa ve uttamaporiso.
Verse 97. He who is not credulous, who has
realized the Unconditioned (Nibbana), who has cut off the links of the round of
rebirths, who has destroyed all consequences of good and bad deeds, who has
discarded all craving, is indeed the noblest of all men (i.e., an arahat).
1. Vantaso: one who has discarded all
craving (lit., one who has vomited out all craving).
The Story of Thera Sariputta
While residing at the Jetavana monastery, the
Buddha uttered Verse (97) of this book, with reference to Thera Sariputtta.
Thirty bhikkhus from a village had arrived at
the Jetavana monastery to pay homage to the Buddha. The Buddha knew that the
time was ripe for those bhikkhus to attain arahatship. So, he sent for
Sariputta, and in the presence of those bhikkhus, he asked, “My son
Sariputta, do you accept the fact that by meditating on the senses one could
realize Nibbana ?” Sariputta answered, “Venerable Sir, in the
matter of the realization of Nibbana by meditating on the senses, it is not
that I accept it because I have faith in you; it is only those who have not
personally realized it, that accept the fact from others.” Sariputta’s
answer was not properly understood by the bhikkhus; they thought,
“Sariputta has not given up wrong views yet; even now, he has no faith in
the Buddha.”
Then the Buddha explained to them the true
meaning of Sariputta’s answer. “Bhikkhus, Sariputta’s answer is simply
this; he accepts the fact that Nibbana is realized by means of meditation on
the senses, but his acceptance is due to his own personal realization and not
merely because I have said it or somebody else has said it. Sariputta has faith
in me; he also has faith in the consequences of good and bad deeds.”
Then the Buddha spoke in verse as follows:
Verse 97: He who is not credulous, who has realized the |
At the end of the discourse, all those
bhikkhus attained arahatship.
Uttar Pradesh chief
minister Mayawati exited from her, alleging that the new Samajwadi Party will
put her welfare programmes in cold storage and take Uttar Pradesh backwards.
βWhen I took over the state it was in a very bad shape and I have single-handedly
developed UP on my own. But I fear that the SP, which
did no development work during its previous regime, will put halt all the
development work that I have done and put the state back by many
years,β she said while addressing media persons soon after tendering her
resignation to Governor B L Joshi after facing a rout in the
assembly elections.
Holding the opposition parties as well as the media responsible for her rout,
Mayawati said the media built wrong perceptions about her
government and very soon, the people of the state will get fed up with the
functioning of the ‘goonda’ SP government and remember the good governance during
the BSP rule.”
These are some of the VIEWS Papers and Hidden Idea Medias who are
the most corrupt and paid persons, were publishing false and bogus views to
please Congress, BJP, SP bosses forgetting that there are educated people
belonging to sarvajan samaj including SC/ST/OBC/Minorities/Poor upper caste who
have already stopped buying these views. Sarvajan comments are not published
against their views. As long as they are paid they are not bothered about their
sales as they are paid by their bosses. They are forgetting that there is a
very powerful media in this country. That powerful media is the entire peopleβs
media iβe., sarvajan media. They deserve only the Kanshiramβs treatment who
said that the true media is the person to person media, the only way to teach
them proper lesson. There were days where Napolean said that he could face two
battalions, but not two scribes. Today can you find one such scribe?Never!
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The real problem with
these Views Papers and Hidden Ideas Media is that they think that they are
first rate souls. When they realised that Congress and BJP cannot win the
elections, they projected a second rate soul, since it is the traditional
practice to think that the untouchables have no soul and that they can do
whatever they want. But the Buddha never believed in any soul. He said that all
are equal. Also we know that the developed Democratic nations do not use EVMs
in their elections as they could be tampered with and has no security as their
source code is not made public.
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