 We do not have an accurately accumulated knowledge about the life of Gautama Buddha, who is the architect of the school known as Buddhism or to be a Buddhist. This school was established in the IVth Century B.C in the northeast India, in a media of religious research as an alternative to the strict practices of Brahmanism. It has been stated in various sources that he has lived between the years 560-480 B.C. His mother had died seven days after she had given birth to Gautama in the Lumbini Forest beneath the Himalayan mountains. Buddha lived a carefree childhood and youth, however he was affected by the sufferings going on in his surroundings. Therefore, he left his family and started very severe trials/ sufferings. Little by little a religious group started to gather around him. In the following years, he tried to expand his teachings in the northeast of India, especially in the Gange region. On his 80th birthday he died in Kužinagara, which was his predestined moment of death. According to the traditions of India after his dead body was burned the ashes were shared by eight people. After his death, his ideas have been taken into consideration in four separate groups. According to Buddha ‘’the mind should be cleared from temporary events. Otherwise, the thought chain is bound to be destroyed in the whirlpools which are impossible to control.’’ For the Absolute Creator he uses the expressions ‘’None of the living eyes could see HU, when a veil opens up to enable Hu to be seen then behind it another veil hiding Hu comes out, and the veils are infinite.’’ Then he continues : ‘’It is certain that the darknesses will get lighted,but beware of looking for the support of the powerless gods by making sacrifices or by giving presents. Even the angels in the sky are collecting the fruits of the past times, while in the widest holes of Hell the devils are bearing their punishments. Meanwhile, the Universe is continuing to born without stopping. Break of the chains that are connecting you to this Universe! Taste the spirit and the essence of the things, reach a celestial comfort… I am Buddha, who weeps for the sufferings of his brothers, who has been wounded by all the pains of this Universe… Now, I am laughing and happy, because I know that there is freedom and will is more superior than the pains and distresses. Oh! You the sufferers, you should know that you yourself are the cause of these sufferings. The things that have been done in the past bring grievance to the individual, whereas the things that are done in the future bring happiness to the individual. However, all of these are relative. If the person knows the source of the suffering and can endure this with patience, if he can fight for love and for the real, then he‘ll be more active and more tenderhearted (compassionate) as each day passes. When that person dies he will be ready for questioning. In the end he wouldn’t know the torchering passions, wouldn’t recognise the dishonoring sins… The happiness and the grievances of the earth that are no more than torcher and distress no longer disturb his serenity… He has entered Nirvana, he cannot live like us… However, he is still united with life. There isn’t any power in this mortal universe that can shake the one who has attained Nirvana. ‘’The world is the field of the after life realm. In the after life realm, the human being finds the returns of whatever he has done in the world with his free will and choice’’ says Buddha. He has converted some of the realities into a concrete form as a result of the sufferings that he had endured during his lifetime. He considers all the relative gains in the assets of a human being as a loss. Especially, it is obvious in the sentences arising from the inputs of his life that he has reached his truth and esssence . The morality of Buddhism prefers correctness and staying away from all the bad deeds both in the mind and the actions… We are accepting that Buddha has reached a certain point by becoming aware of the powers in his essence and by using them. We think of him as a person who has an important place in the stairs of humanity reaching Hz.Mohammad who is at the peak of these stairs. It is for you to comment about the subject whether in the universal understanding the Nirvana of Buddhism is the same as the Islamic concept which abolishes the gods. Source:
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