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Articles: Devotion | In the Realm of Yamaraja
- Prof. venkata ramanamurty mallajosyula
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Yamaraja replied, 'He has obtained celestial happiness not for performing good deeds, but because he died in faith and in love to the Lord and Master, the most glorious Buddha.
The Buddha says : 'The heart of love and faith spreads as it were a beneficent shade from the world of men to the world of gods'. This glorious utterance is like the stamp of a king's seal on a royal edict.'
The happy father hastened to the place and saw his beloved child playing with other children, all transfigured by the peace of the blissful existence of a heavenly life. He ran up to his boy and cried with tears running down his cheeks : 'My son, my son, do you not remember me, your father who watched over you with loving care and tended you in your sickness? Return home with me to the land of the living.'
But the boy, while struggling to go back to his playmates, upbraided him for using such strange expressions as father and son. 'In my present state, he said, 'I know no such words, for I am free from delusion.'
- Father : 'My son, do you not remember your father who watched over you with loving care in your sickness?'
- Son : 'Father, in my present state, I know no such words or strange expressions as father and son, for I am free from delusion.'
On this, the Brahman departed, and when he woke from his dream he bethought himself of the Blessed Master of mankind, the great Buddha, and resolved to go to him, lay bare his grief, and seek consolation. Having arrived at the Jetavana, the Brahman told his story and how his boy had refused to recognize him and to go home with him.
And the World-honored One (Buddha) said : 'Truly you are deluded. When man dies the body is dissolved into its elements, but the spirit is not entombed. It leads a higher mode of life in which all the relative terms of father, son, wife, mother, are at an end, just as a guest who leaves his lodging has done with it, as though it were a thing of the past. Men concern themselves most about that which passes away; but the end of life quickly comes as a burning torrent sweeping away the transient in a moment. They are like a blind man set to look after a burning lamp. A wise man, understanding the transiency of worldly relations, destroys the cause of grief, and escapes from the seething whirlpool of sorrow. Religious wisdom lifts a man above the pleasures and pains of the world and gives him peace everlasting.'
The Brahman asked the permission of the Blessed One to enter the community of his bhikkhus, so as to acquire that heavenly wisdom which alone can give comfort to an afflicted heart.
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