BELIEF

When the Budha was about to breathe his last,his disciples began to cry bitterly. They felt like orphans and Budha told them if they still suffered after association with him for decades,it is simply meant that they had not grasped the meaning of his teaching.And then He uttered His last words:Be a light unto yourself.His last words were indicative of a radical approach,which has never been witnessed in the history of -religion. With these words the Enlightened One knoked down the whole edifice of the age-old guru-disciple tradition.It is very unfortunate that even now today we have not realized the significance of awakening our own intelligence and using it to address the fundamental question of life.The four noble truth that the Budha taught about suffering,its cause,its ending and the path that leads to its dissolution. He talked to every humanbeing under the sun and wanted to examine these noble truth individually. We are lucky that His teachings are available to us,but we are also unfortunate that we do not pay enough heed to them,even though the problems that He spoke about are still very relevant.He is one of the greatest iconoclasts the world has ever seen.His words are as relevant today as they were then.