Religions in India-Buddhism

Buddhism is a well-known religion in India and the word Buddha relates woken by reality. Lord Buddha was the first man born as Siddhartha Gautama 2500 years ago in Nepal.

Lord Buddha never claimed himself as a God and was always a human being who understood life in the best possible ways and hence became enlightened.

Siddharta was from a royal family living in the Indian-Nepal border.

The story says that his upbringing was cloistered and was jolted into the complacency in comprehending about life, the harsh facts of sickness, old age and death.

Buddha deserted home and wandered looking for truth. He meditated in the training of various teachers and turned towards asceticism.

He practiced austerities and looked into the mind and his own heart sitting below a papal tree. He vowed that he would not rise from the papal tree until he acquires the enlightenment of victory.

Buddhists have a strong belief that Lord Buddha attained a state that reached beyond the normal world. The normal conditions are psychology, upbringing, perceptions, opinions, and so on, but the unconditioned is the enlightenment.

This is a state that the Buddha gained insight with the workings of life and understood the human suffering and its cause. The problems related to the spiritual quest were clearly comprehended.

After the enlightenment, Lord Buddha traveled throughout northern India and spread his teachings towards the enlightenment path. This teaching was called as Buddha dharma.

Lord Buddha acquired many disciples as he traveled from one place to another and they all followed him on their own. They also taught others the path of enlightenment and started making everyone realize the true value and concept of life.

Buddha claimed no divinity as he was a simple human being who transformed himself as an ideal guide to impart the knowledge about enlightenment of oneself.

Buddhism is totally based on beliefs and practices deemed as religion. He comprehended the nature and its phenomena of cycle, its suffering as well as rebirth.

The goal imparted attaining salvation, devotional practices, ethical conduct, renunciation of worldly matters, physical exercises, meditation, altruistic behavior and cultivation of wisdom.

The followers of Buddhism in the world may be nearly 230 to 500 million and the traditional followers find refuge in the three jewels. This is the reason that Siddhartha Gautama was considered to be the founder of the Buddhism religion.

He saw the suffering of people, decaying corpse and also a diseased man. All such sights prompted him to take a spiritual quest to find peace within oneself by meditating and followed the middle path of self indulgence and self mortification.