Who will understand the pain of Buddha? His father wanted him to enjoy the best of the world. He offered to arrange best of the comforts available in this world for him. The more he insisted on those comforts and the more Buddha was in pain. His father was offering the best he could have offered and yet every such offer would end up increasing the pain of Buddha.
It was beyond the capacity of his father to understand the mind of Buddha. Buddha experienced that deep love and compassion, how can he remain confined to an island. Father was happy creating an island for his son where everything under the sun was available. However, the son has two fundamental questions in his mind. First, are these comforts permanent or temporary. Second, whatever is permanent whether the same is available to everybody or not. His self can’t be confined to an island.
A person living on island would never be able to appreciate this feeling. He is living in a picture perfect world. Unless somebody experiences true love it’s not possible to understands. Unless somebody has that compassion like Buddha, one can’t understand why somebody would be sad on that island. He would attribute it to mental stories. Why would Meera be sad despite being a queen. Why would Mahatma leave everything to fight for freedom? The calculative mind can never understand.
Buddha’s pain can be understood by someone who has that compassion in his heart. He would understand how painful it is to enjoy the comforts when entire humanity is suffering. Meera’s love can be understood by somebody who has ever loved. Mind can’t understand heart. Unfortunately, in a society dominated by mind, heart has no place. Everybody is a use case. The moment one is born, his life goal is fixed by society. Listening to heart is not allowed. You are mad if you cry. You just have to work like a machine. You have to be fulfill the responsibilities assigned to you on the narrow island. If not, you will be criticised, punished, and called a failure.
Love and compassion can’t be confined to an island. When somebody loves, he has compassion for everyone like Buddha. There are no calculations. He want to find a solution for the suffering per se. So that nobody suffers. He can’t be limited to be confined to a family. But that compassion can’t be understood or appreciated by those who are busy building their islands most comfortable. They feel they are having mercy on you allowing entry to that beautiful island unable to realise that they are inflicting unbearable pain on somebody like Buddha whose heart is crying with the pain of the world. Who wants to understand the cause of that pain and tell people the remedy that can change their lives.
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