The Supreme Awakening: SammaSamBodhi!

[Bhikkhu Samahita]

The Event of Awakening:

At that time a girl named Sujata
<http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/s/sujaataa.htm> Senani lived in
Uruvela <http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/u/uruvelaa.htm> . When
adult,
she prayed before a certain Banyan tree, that she might get a husband
equal to herself in caste and that her firstborn may be a son. Her prayer
was successful, since so indeed did it happen. At the full moon day of the
Vesak <http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/vy/vesaakha.htm> month, she
rose at early dawn & milked the cows. As soon as new
buckets were placed under the cows, their milk poured forth in streams
spontaneously all by itself. Seeing this miracle, she knew something special
was going on.

Sujata <http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/s/sujaataa.htm> offering
the Bodhisatta <http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/b/bodhisatta.htm>
her milk rice.

Now at that very night the Future Buddha
<http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/b/buddha.htm> had 5 specific
dreams, that
made him conclude: Certainly, without doubt, today is the very day,
I will reach Enlightenment! His 5 colored radiance illuminated the whole
tree.
Then Sujata came & offered the cooked milk rice in the hands of the Great
Being.
After that a grass-cutter came going with a bundle of grass just harvested
from
nearby. He offered the Great Being 8 handfuls of Kusa grass, when he saw
that
this Sage was a Holy Man. The Future Buddha accepted the grass and proceeded
to the foot of the great Bodhi-Tree
<http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/b/bodhirukka.htm> . Reaching the
imperturbable Eastern side,
where all Buddhas take their seat, he sat down determined & said to himself:
This is indeed the immovable spot where all the Buddhas have planted
themselves!
This is the very place for destroying the net of desire!
Then the Future Buddha turned his back to the trunk and faced East.
Right there he then made this mighty decision:

Let just blood & flesh of this body dry up & let skin & sinews
fall from the frame of bones. I will not leave this seat before
having attained the absolute supreme
<http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/s_t/sammaa_sambodhi.htm>
Enlightenment!

So determined did he seat himself in this unconquerable seat, which not
even a 100 strikes of lightning could make him waver from.
At this very moment the rebel deity Mara
<http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/ma/maara.htm> -the Evil One-
raised exclaiming:
Prince Siddhattha <http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/g/gotama.htm>
will now pass beyond my power, but I will never allow it!
and sounding the Mara
<http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/ma/maara.htm> 's war shout, he
prepared his army & went out for
battle. Then Mara <http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/ma/maara.htm>
said to his militia: This Sakyamuni, son of Suddhodana
<http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/s/suddhodana.htm> ,
is far greater, than any other man, so we will never succeed to fight him
up front. We will therefore attack him from behind. Frustrated, being unable
even to touch this Wielder of Power even with 9 mighty hurricanes of wind,
rain, rocks, weapons, red coals, hot ashes, sand, mud, & darkness Mara
<http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/ma/maara.htm> somewhat
in panic commanded his army: Why do you stand still?
Seize, kill & drive away this prince. And Mara
<http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/ma/maara.htm> yelled: Siddhattha
<http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/g/gotama.htm> , leave this seat.
It is not yours but mine! Hearing this the Well-gone One replied:
Mara <http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/ma/maara.htm> , neither have
you ever fulfilled the 10 perfections to the third degree,
nor have you given the 5 great donations. Neither has you striven for
insight,
nor for the welfare of the world, nor for enlightenment! Therefore does this
seat not belong to you, but indeed only and forever to me!
Suddenly overpowered by fear Mara
<http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/ma/maara.htm> 's followers fled
helter-skelter
in all directions. Not two went the same way, but leaving their weapons
in a chaos all behind, they fled terrified by panic. Seeing them flee, the
great assembly of deities triumphantly shouted: Mara
<http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/ma/maara.htm> is defeated. Prince
Siddhattha <http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/g/gotama.htm> has Won!
Let us celebrate the Victory! The deities then sang:

The Victory has this illustrious Buddha
<http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/b/buddha.htm> Won.
The Evil One, The End-maker is defeated & done.
Thus they jubilantly circled the wisdom throne,
the band of nagas <http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/n/nagaa.htm>
singing their praises of the Seer,
the flocks of birds singing their praises of the Sage,
the assembly of Deities singing their praises of the Conqueror,
the group of Brahmas
<http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/b/brahmaloka.htm> singing their
praises of the Worthy One.

It was before the sun had set that the Tathagata thus conquered Mara
<http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/ma/maara.htm> &
defeated his army. Then at the same night, after having bathed, while the
Bodhi-Tree <http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/b/bodhirukka.htm>
rained red sprigs on his robe, the Consummate One acquired
knowledge of previous existences in the first watch of the night:
With the mind thus concentrated, purified, bright, fixed, unified, focused,
tractable, compliant, steady & imperturbable, I directed it to remembrance
of my past lives. I recollected numerous past lives, i.e., one birth,
two...five,
ten...fifty, a hundred, a thousand, a hundred thousand, many eons of cosmic
contraction, many eons of cosmic expansion:
There I had such a name, belonged to such a clan & species, had such
a body. Such was my food, such my experience of pleasure & pain,
such the end of my life. Passing away from that state, I re-arose there.
There I had such name, belonged to such a sort & family, had such a form.
Such was my food, such my experience of pleasure & pain, such the
end of my life. Passing away from that state, I re-arose here. Thus I
remembered my various past lives in all their various modes & details.
This was the first knowledge I attained in the first watch of the night.
Ignorance was destroyed; knowledge arose; darkness was destroyed;
light arose as happens in one who is alert, aware, and determined.
But the pleasant feeling that arose in this way did not invade my mind
nor remain. With the mind thus still concentrated, purified, bright, intact,
pliant, malleable, steady, & imperturbable, I directed it to the knowledge
of the passing away & reappearance of beings. I saw by means of the divine
<http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/The_Divine_Eye.htm>
eye, purified & surpassing the human eye I saw beings passing away &
re-appearing, and I realized how & why they are high & low, beautiful &
ugly, fortunate & unfortunate all in accordance with the intentions of their
prior actions: 'These beings who were endowed with bad behaviour of
body, speech, & mind, who reviled the Noble Ones, held wrong views and
acted under the influence of wrong views, with the break-up of the body,
after death, have re-appeared in the plane of misery, the bad destinations,
the lower realms, even in the hells.
But these beings, who were gifted with good behaviour of body, speech &
mind, who did not revile the Noble Ones, who held right views and acted
under the influence of right views, with the break-up of the body, after
death, have re-appeared in happy destinations, even in a divine world.'
Thus -- by means of the divine eye
<http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/The_Divine_Eye.htm> , purified &
surpassing the human --
I saw beings passing away & re-appearing, all in accordance with their
particular mixture of good & bad kamma
<http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Buddha_on_Kamma.htm> .
But the satisfaction that arose in this way did not invade my mind nor did
it remain. With the mind thus concentrated, fully absorbed, I directed it
towards understanding the stilling of all the mental fermentations.
Then I realized how it actually comes to be, that:

Such is Misery.
<http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_1st_Noble_Truth_on_Suffering.htm>
..
Such is the Cause
<http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_2nd_Noble_Truth_on_The_Cause_of_Su
ffering.htm> of Misery...
Such is the End
<http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_3rd_Noble_Truth_on_The_Ceasing_of_
Suffering.htm> of Misery...
Such is the Way
<http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_4th_Noble_Truth_on_The_Way_to_Ceas
e_Suffering.htm> to End Misery...

Such is the mental
<http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Three_Fermentations.htm>
fermentations...
Such is the cause of mental fermentation
<http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Three_Fermentations.htm> ...
Such is the end of mental fermentation
<http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Three_Fermentations.htm> ...
Such is the way leading to the end of mental fermentation
<http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Three_Fermentations.htm> ...!

When my mind saw that, realized that, it was freed of the fermentation of
sense-desire, released from the fermentation of becoming, unobstructed by
the fermentation of ignorance. Fully & Perfectly
<http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/s_t/sammaa_sambodhi.htm>
Enlightened - The Buddha
<http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/b/buddha.htm> -
perceiving this immense glory, spoke these 2 solemn verses, which never has
been omitted by any of countless thousands of prior Buddhas:

Through this round of countless existences have I searched
yet failed to find 'the Creator', who framed this formation:
What Misery! is such Endless Birth, Ageing, Decay & Death!!

Now I see that 'the Constructor' of this structure is Craving
<http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_3_kinds_of_Craving.htm> ...!!!
Never shall this construction be build again, as all the rafters
are shattered and the main beam is busted & fully broken...
At this stilling of all Craving
<http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_3_kinds_of_Craving.htm> , mind has
finally found calm…

Then, friends, this vision of certainty then arose in me: This release
is irreversible, this is the last rebirth, this endless reappearance
<http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Samsara.htm> has
finally ended...

Here do all Buddhas Awaken: Bodhgaya
<http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/b/bodhirukka.htm> !

About Awakening see also:
<http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/b/bodhisatta.htm>
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/b/bodhisatta.htm
<http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/b/buddha.htm>
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/b/buddha.htm
<http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/s_t/sammaa_sambodhi.htm>
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/s_t/sammaa_sambodhi.htm
<http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/b_f/bodhi.htm>
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/b_f/bodhi.htm
<http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/b/bodhirukka.htm>
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/b/bodhirukka.htm

Have a nice day!

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The Supreme Awakening: Sammasambodhi!