They were carrying the dead body of a man. Then they went further and he saw a funeral. It can happen to just anyone." "Me, a prince? It can happen to me?" "It can happen to anyone." Then he saw, "Oh, I can become like this." He was completely disturbed by this. He said, "Stop! What is this guy? What's he doing?" He said, "Oh, he is sick, unfortunately." "What does that mean?" He said, "The body, sometimes it gets sick. Then he saw a man lying on the street who was ill with something, not able to get up and in great suffering. If they live long enough, they get old." This was a realization for him that "I will become like this."
"What, me also?" He said, "Yes, everyone gets old. He said, "Everyone gets old someday." He looked at himself he was a nice youth. He said, "What happened to him?" The charioteer said, "Oh, he is just an old man." "How does it happen?" he asked. His father had protected him from all this. He had never seen an old man in his life. One day, Gautama thought that he will just take a drive through the town, so he asked his charioteer to take him across.Īs he was going, he saw a man who was old.
When he was nineteen years of age, his father got him married to a very pretty young woman, kept him in a palace which was secluded from the rest of the society, where he lived in pleasure and was never exposed to any kind of suffering. So he kept him in utter pleasure – the best of food, clothes and pleasures. He thought that by being exposed to some suffering or misery, he may turn into a sage. He did not want him to become a great sage. When he made this prediction, Gautama’s father got a little excited. When he was born, some Yogi predicted that he will either become a great emperor or a great sage. Gautama was a prince of a small princely state.
He opened up the floodgates of spirituality for all kinds of people. For the first time, Gautama spoke in Pali, which was the common language of the day. Others were barred from learning it because this language was seen as the key to the Divine. Till then, spiritual process was offered only in Sanskrit language in that part of the world and Sanskrit was available only to a certain community of people. He did not do anything very new as such, but he offered spirituality to the society in the way that it works. In his own lifetime, he had forty thousand monks and this army of monks went out to bring a spiritual wave. He has been one of the greatest spiritual waves and probably the most successful spiritual teacher on the planet. Though there have been many Buddhas, his name has lived on. There is probably no one in the world who has not heard of Gautama's name. One who is above his intellect is a Buddha. The word "Bu" means buddhi or the intellect. There were many before him, many at that time and many more after him. Sadhguru: If I say “Buddha,” today most people think of Gautama the Buddha.
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