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Yashodhara Had Power

    • Ranjini Obeyesekere
    • Publish Date: Jun 26 2016 1:42PM
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    • Updated Date: Jul 13 2016 12:40PM
Yashodhara Had Power

Accounts of Yashodhara as an enlightened arahant are to be found in the last biography of Yashodhara, titled Yashodharapadanaya. It says when Yashodhara (Yaśodharā was the wife of Siddhārtha Gautama, later known as Gautama Buddha, the founder of Buddhism. She later became a bhikkhuni and is considered an arahatā.) realises that she and the Buddha, born on the same day, will also die on the same day, she decides that would be too great a loss to bear for everyone.

She makes up her mind to die on a certain day and says to him, “This is the last time I see you, and from now on, I have reached the other side.” Then she addresses the crowd and says things that reveal her to be a very strong and powerful woman, with enormous resources, who made the wilful decision to be the Buddha’s partner in samsara through successive births even though she knew he would leave her…

What you get is a picture of this amazing woman, so powerful.

For instance, when the Buddha left her, many princes supposedly wooed her; she was young and attractive. However, Yashodhara showed no interest. The story goes that the Buddha’s father would send messengers at frequent intervals to find out where his son was and what he was doing.

They would send him dispatches, “Now he is shaving his head … now he has given up the mattress and sleeps on the floor … now he eats only out of abowl … and so on. And what did Yashodhara do? She would do exactly what the Buddha was doing: shaving her head, eating out of a bowl.

She lived the Buddha’s life — in the palace. She took steps to become a nun, eventually becoming an arahant.

- Speakingtree.in

 

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Heti Desai SRI SRI RAVI SHANKAR

Amazing story... It means that Yashodhara was a great believer of Buddha and really cared about him.

A.parmeshgoud sree narayana vidya bhavan

Amazing

Vishnu Varthan J Bethel Mat Hr Sec School

Nice fact.

Mansi Borade PADUA HIGH SCHOOL-MANKHURD

WOW!!! SO NICE ITS GOOD STORY.

sandeep Sree Narayana Vidya Bhavan

Amazing story... It means that Yashodhara was a great believer of Buddha and really cared about him.

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