Biography of Gautam Buddha

Biography of Gautam Buddha

Gautam Buddha

सिद्धार्थ, जो बाद में बुद्ध - या प्रबुद्ध एक के रूप में जाना जाने लगे  - एक राजकुमार थे जिसने ज्ञान प्राप्त करने के लिए एक महल के आराम को छोड़ दिया। उन्होंने दुनिया की आवश्यक अवास्तविकता का एहसास किया और निर्वाण के आनंद का अनुभव किया। अपने ज्ञानोदय के बाद, उन्होंने अपना शेष जीवन दूसरों को यह सिखाने में बिताया कि जन्म और मृत्यु के अंतहीन चक्र से कैसे बचा जाए

बुद्ध का जन्म लुम्बिनी जिले में लगभग 400 ईसा पूर्व हुआ था, जो अब भारतीय सीमा के करीब आधुनिक नेपाल है। वह एक महल में लाया गया था जिसमें सभी आराम और विलासिता संभव थी। यह कहा जाता है कि एक युवा कुलीन राजकुमार बड़ा हो रहा है, उसके पिता ने दुनिया के दर्द और पीड़ा से युवा राजकुमार सिद्धार्थ को बचाने की कोशिश की। ऐसा कहा जाता है कि उनके पिता का यह प्रण था कि सिद्धार्थ एक दिन संसार का त्याग करेंगे।

हालाँकि, अपने शुरुआती वयस्क जीवन में एक समय पर, सिद्धार्थ ने जीवन का एक बड़ा अर्थ खोजने की कोशिश की। भेस में, उन्होंने महल छोड़ दिया और राज्य के चारों ओर घूमते रहे। इधर, सिद्धार्थ वृद्धावस्था और बीमारी से पीड़ित विभिन्न लोगों के सामने आए और मृत्यु को देखा। इससे उन्हें जीवन की क्षणभंगुरता का पता चला, जिसका उन पर बहुत प्रभाव पड़ा। परिणामस्वरूप, सिद्धार्थ ने जीवन के गहरे अर्थ की तलाश करने का संकल्प लिया l

गुप्त रूप से, सिद्धार्थ ने महल छोड़ दिया - अपनी पत्नी, बेटे और सभी सांसारिक सुखों को पीछे छोड़ दिया जो उसने आनंद लिया था। उन्होंने जंगल के तपस्वियों के बीच ज्ञान प्राप्त करने के लिए खुद को ध्यान में समर्पित किया। 

सिद्धार्थ कई दिनों तक निर्वाण की आनंदमय चेतना में सफल रहे। सामान्य चेतना में लौटने पर, सिद्धार्थ द बुद्धा (बुद्ध का अर्थ है ’प्रबुद्ध एक’) ने अपने जीवन के शेष हिस्से को दूसरों को पढ़ाने का खर्च उठाने का निर्णय लिया ताकि जीवन की अंतर्निहित पीड़ा से कैसे बचा जा सके।

कई वर्षों के लिए, बुद्ध ने भारत के चारों ओर यात्रा की, विशेष रूप से गंगा के मैदान के आसपास और नेपाल में, मुक्ति के दर्शन को पढ़ाते हुए। उनकी शिक्षाओं को मौखिक रूप से प्रसारित किया गया था और उनकी मृत्यु के कई वर्षों बाद तक नहीं लिखा गया था।

बुद्ध अक्सर आत्मज्ञान पर बातचीत करते थे, लेकिन एक अवसर पर, उन्होंने बस एक फूल रखा और मौन बनाए रखा। बहुतों ने बात को समझना नहीं छोड़ा, लेकिन जब बाद में सवाल किया गया, तो बुद्ध ने जवाब दिया कि उनकी वास्तविक शिक्षा को केवल मौन में समझा जा सकता है। वार्ता केवल सीमित बौद्धिक जानकारी दे सकती थी जो वास्तविक ज्ञान नहीं थी।

बुद्ध ने गहरे दर्शन से बचने की कोशिश की, उन्होंने ईश्वर शब्द का इस्तेमाल करने से परहेज किया, व्यावहारिक तरीके से बात करना पसंद करते हैं कि व्यक्ति जन्म और पुनर्जन्म के चक्र से बच सकता है और आत्मज्ञान प्राप्त कर सकता है। कई आध्यात्मिक शिक्षकों की तरह, उन्होंने अक्सर अपनी शिक्षाओं को सरल और व्यावहारिक बनाए रखने के लिए दृष्टान्तों में पढ़ाया।

बुद्ध ने अपनी लोकप्रियता और आध्यात्मिक विकास से ईर्ष्या से दुश्मनी को आकर्षित किया। उनका एक भिक्षु देवदत्त बाद में बुद्ध से ईर्ष्या करने लगा और उसने समुदाय को विभाजित करने की कोशिश की। उसने बुद्ध को मारने के लिए तीन बार प्रयास किया, लेकिन प्रत्येक अवसर पर वह असफल रहा। बुद्ध जैन शिक्षक महावीर के समकालीन थे, लेकिन उनके बीच बहुत सम्मान था, लेकिन वे शारीरिक रूप से नहीं मिलते थे।

पूरे भारत में कई वर्षों की शिक्षा और यात्रा के बाद बुद्ध का निधन हो गया। अपनी मृत्यु के बाद, उन्होंने आनंद (उनके सबसे प्रिय शिष्य) से कहा कि अब उन्हें अपने जीवन के मार्गदर्शक होने के लिए उनकी शिक्षाओं और स्वयं के नैतिक आचरण पर भरोसा करना चाहिए।

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Swami Vivekananda

Swami Vivekananda.

Swami Vivekananda was born on 12th January 1863 in Kolkata. His father name is Vishwanath Dutt and mother's name was Bhuvaneshwari Devi. Before he became a hermit his name was Narenranath Dutt. And he was also known as Naren. His family was well known for wealth, tradition.. ..large heartedness and was scholarly. Vishwanath Dutt was Attorney at Law at Kolkata high court. He used to practice law at the Kolkata high school. He was a thinker. A person who was extremely kind. He had a great deal of empathy towards the poor. He had a passionate and valuable point of view.. ..towards religious and social issues. Bhuvaneshwari Devi was a very simple lady. His father believed in the western culture. He wanted to educate his son Narendra in English.. ..and make him the follow the western culture.

Swami Vivekananda Teachings

Narendra was always very sharp. And his interest lied in God and spirituality. Hence he joined the Brahma society first. But he didn't find peace there. In the meanwhile he had graduated in BA from the Kolkata university. And started preparing for the law exam. At this time he met lots of people.. ..to clear his religious and spiritual doubts. But he didn't find any answers to his doubts anywhere. 

One day one of his relatives took him to Ramkrishna Paramhansa. Swami RamKrishna Paramhans asked Narendra as soon as he saw him. Can you sing a hymn? Narendra said. Yes I can. Then Narendra sang a couple of hymns in his melodious voice. Swami Paramhans was really pleased with his hymns. From that time Narendra started singing hymns for Swami Paramhans. And became his disciple. He had become a staunch follower of the Veda theology. Between 1887 and 1892.. ..Swami Vivekanand lived a life of anonymity. After performing penance in a life of solitude.. ..he went on a tour of India. Swami Paramhans left for the heavenly abode on 16th August 1886.

Swami Vivekanand wanted to make an important contribution.. ..in the propaganda of Veda and Yoga in the western culture . He was a famous and an impactful guru of the Vedas. His real name was Narendra Nath Dutt. He had represented the Hindu ideology.. ..at the world religious conference held at Chicago in 1893. India's Vedas managed to reach every country of America and Europe.. ..thanks to Swami Vivekanand. He established the Ram Krishna mission and it is doing its work even today. He was Swami Ramkrishna Parmamhans's well qualified and talented disciple. He is known for starting his speech he made at the US.. ..with the line my dear American brothers and sisters. Swami Vivekanand has mentioned Pawhari Baba.. ..at various places in his speech and writing. Pawhari means someone who feeds on air. A well-known fact about Pawhari Baba was that he wouldn't eat anything. He was really impressed by this weird sage.. ..and he also penned Pawhari Baba's biography. Pawhari Baba used to live in a cave. He would meditate in the cave for days and months on end. No one knows what he use to eat during that long a period. That's why people named him Pawhari Baba. Pawhari meant someone who feeds on air. Someone who spend his life only by consuming air.

 The speech made by Swami Vivekananda.. ..at the world religious conference in Chicago. Swami Vivekananda really discussed speech at Chicago.. ..at the world religious conference on 11 December 1893. At whatever point individuals talk about him.. ..this discourse of his definitely talked about. His speech read. Get up. Wake up. And don't stop till you achieve your goal. I teach love and love only. And my teaching is based on the great facts of the Vedas.. ..which enlighten us about equality and completeness of the soul. Success has three important aspects. Purity, patience and determination. But what's above everything is love. We need an educated which develops the character.. ..develops the mental powers, expands our knowledge.. ..and which makes us able enough to be independent. Explain to yourself and explain others. Call out to the soul that's asleep. And see how it comes to life. When a dormant soul comes to life.. ..you'll achieve power, progress, goodness. Everything. My belief systems can be communicated in these words as it were. Human kind should use divinity at every step of the age. We strive to get more in life because of power only. And this makes us commit sins. And invite sorrow. Weakness is the reason for sins and sorrows. Weakness opens the door for ignorance. And ignorance opens the door for sorrow. If you have faith in 33 crore Gods and Goddesses.. ..but not in your own self then you cannot attain salvation. Have faith in yourself. Stay dogged and become strong. This is what we need. The maxim of Swami's ideologies is inspired.. ..from a mantra of the kathopanishad.

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Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa the 'angel of mercy' dedicated herself to the service of human beings and served god amongst the poorest of the poor, sick and also the dying for over fifty years of her life.

Teresa was born as Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhin on 26th August 1910 in Skopje, now the capital of Macedonia to Albanian parents. She was the youngest of three children. Exposed early to prayer and repair, she was deeply spiritual. At the age of eighteen, she left home for capital of Ireland, Ireland, to join the Loretto abbey and become a nun of the Roman Catholic church. After her coaching, she was given the name of Sister Theresa. Sisters of Our girl of Loreto, were terribly active in India, doing missionary work. She came to India on January 6, 1929 to become an educator and was rapt at the sight of the halting and helpless folks on the pavements. She taught in St. Mary's convent faculty in metropolis for fifteen years anon became the head.In 1937, she took her final vows as a nun, in Darjeeling.

In 1947, on a journey to Darjeeling later referred by her because the most vital journey of her life she had a vision or decision to depart the convent, to live among the poor and to take care of the sick and the dying, the hungry, the homeless, to be God's Love in action to the poorest of the poor, which was the start of the Missionaries of Charity. At first she didn't get the permission to depart the convent however in 1948 she got the permission specifically from Pope Pius XIII to depart the the Loreto community and work among the city's poor. She left the convent, took basic training in nursing and went to live in the nearby slum. She wore a reasonable and straightforward white dress with a blue border, that became the foremost recognised image of the Sisters of Charity. Following one amongst her former student, others joined her in her mission. In 1948, she opened the first slum school.

As the congregation grew she sought-after approval from the Pope and shifted to 54A Lower Circular Road, thatbecame the Mother House. The Missionaries of charity was formally established as a spiritual congregation for the bishopric of Kolkata in Oct1950. The organisation devoted to the working for the destitute, now have thousands of homes and members all over the country and abroad. Calcutta became the center of her humanitarian activities. Her 1st home was 'Nirmal Hriday' (pure heart) for the sick and therefore the dying, and then ' Shishu Bhavan' for the disabled, orphaned and mentally retarded children, 'Shanti Nagar', a colony for lepers wherever they were cared for, they could learn a skill, build their own houses and could work on their own fields, AIDS hospices and so on. The first home outside Republic of India was based in 1965 in Venezuela. Others were later opened in Italia, Tanzania, Australia, US, Communist Cuba, former Soviet Union etc.

Mother Teresa became an Indian citizen in 1962. She has received several national and international awards in recognition of her noble work for humanity.

The first award being Padmashri for distinguished service (1962), then the Magsaysay Award the same year, Pope John XXIII Peace Prize (1971), Good Samaritan Award (1971), John . F. Kennedy International Award (1971), Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International peace (1972), Nobel Peace Prize (1979), Bharat Ratna (1980), Rajiv Gandhi Sadbhavana Award (1993) etc. were some of them.

In 1983, at the age of seventy two, Mother was diagnosed with a serious heart condition and her health steadily worsened.

In 1990, Mother had decided to step down as the head due to her failing health and so called a conclave of sisters to choose a successor. But in a secret ballot, she was re-elected with one dissenting vote, that was her own. In 1991 she underwent heart surgery and in March 1997, Sister Nirmala a former Hindu converted to Roman Catholic was elected to succeed Mother Teresa as leader of Missionaries of Charity.

On Sep five, 1997 the 87-year old mother died of severe cardiac arrest at the Missionaries of Charity headquarters in Kolkata.

The late mother schooled the globe the wonder in giving and left behind a colossal organisation with the need to continue her work.

Mother was blessed by Pope John Paul II at St.

Peters sq. in residence, on October 19th 2003, seven years after her death.

Henceforth the mother are going to be brought up because the The Blessed Theresa of Kolkata

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Marilyn Monroe

Born	June 1, 1926 in Los Angeles, California, USA
Died	August 5, 1962 in Los Angeles, California, USA  (drug overdose)
Birth Name	Norma Jeane Mortenson
Nicknames	The Blonde Bombshell MM
Height	5' 5½" (1.66 m)

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