{"id":160455,"date":"2020-05-11T12:01:24","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T11:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=160455"},"modified":"2020-05-09T10:37:58","modified_gmt":"2020-05-09T09:37:58","slug":"an-ode-to-gautam-buddha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2020\/05\/an-ode-to-gautam-buddha\/","title":{"rendered":"An Ode to Gautam Buddha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/About-Gautama-Buddha-Lord-Siddhartha.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-89047\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/About-Gautama-Buddha-Lord-Siddhartha.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/About-Gautama-Buddha-Lord-Siddhartha.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/About-Gautama-Buddha-Lord-Siddhartha-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, 6th May night<br \/>\nThe moon was shining bright<br \/>\nNo clouds or rain to spoil the sight<\/p>\n<p>Suddenly the thought came to me<br \/>\n7th May is Poornima (fullmoon night)<\/p>\n<p>With the full moon the world will celebrate Buddha Poornima<\/p>\n<p>It was in BCE 623 that a human star was born in Lumbini now in Nepal :<br \/>\nA\u00a0 child named Sidharth Gautam<\/p>\n<p>A person who would bring Compassion, Bliss, Justice to the troubled world.<\/p>\n<p>A person who would tell us not to grieve<br \/>\nBut to believe<br \/>\nIn justice<br \/>\nIn kindness<br \/>\nIn humanity, spiritualness<\/p>\n<p>Such a person left his home and family.<\/p>\n<p>To seek answers in his receptive mind<br \/>\nWhy so much sorrow, why illness and death?<\/p>\n<p>To think and to meditate<br \/>\nHe sat down under a bodhi tree<br \/>\nLo and behold he felt enlightenment<br \/>\nAnd felt a sense of glee<\/p>\n<p>The man debated these issues with intensity<br \/>\nWith pandits and seers of Benaras city<br \/>\nAnd arrived at truth and spirituality<br \/>\nAnd then became known\u00a0as Gautam Buddha<\/p>\n<p>He spread his message of NV, love, kindness<br \/>\nTo answer issues of death, sorrow, illness<br \/>\nLife and death are intertwined<br \/>\nBut we must not grieve<br \/>\nWe must believe<br \/>\nIn love compassion<br \/>\nAnd the ultimate Union<br \/>\nOf Atma with Paratma<\/p>\n<p>Such was Lord Buddha who is revered by millions of people all over the world.<\/p>\n<p><em>7 May 2020<\/em><\/p>\n<p>______________________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Ravi-P-Bhatia-e1471532294478.jpe\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-70777\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Ravi-P-Bhatia-e1471532294478.jpe\" alt=\"\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" \/><\/a><\/em><em>Dr Ravi P Bhatia is a member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/\" >TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment<\/a>, an<\/em> <em>educationist, Gandhian scholar and peace researcher. Retired professor, Delhi University. His new book, <\/em>A Garland of Ideas\u2014Gandhian, Religious, Educational, Environmental <em>was published recently in Delhi.<\/em> <em><a href=\"ravipbhatia@gmail.com\">ravipbhatia@gmail.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, 6th May night<br \/>\nThe moon was shining bright<br \/>\nNo clouds or rain to spoil the sight<br \/>\nSuddenly the thought came to me<br \/>\n7th May is Poornima (fullmoon night)<br \/>\nWith the full moon the world will celebrate Buddha Poornima<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":89047,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[1198,260,1177,868,107,1933,805],"class_list":["post-160455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-format","tag-buddhism","tag-history","tag-inspirational","tag-poetry","tag-religion","tag-siddhartha-gautama-buddha","tag-spirituality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}