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Swami celebrated Buddha Poornima in 2003 in Kodaikanal and as Baba was speaking to the boys inside Sai Sruthi, He started elaborating on the pure nature of The Buddha, how He attained enlightenment and how He exemplified so many sterling virtues.
As Baba was talking, His palm suddenly moved in the air, caught that empty space, and immediately closed. And the next instant when the closed divine fist opened, the boys could only gasp in awe! Baba was holding in His hand a marvelous miniature Buddha, red and resplendent. Swami then asked, “Tell me, what is this made of?” The students all answered: “Swami, plaster of paris” “Swami, sand” “Swami, clay”
Baba dismissed all the answers and then revealed, “This is made up of the Lumbini mud – the sacred soil where The Buddha was born.”
And then Baba went to narrate the various austerities that Buddha engaged in, the rigorous spiritual disciplines that this holy one pursued on His path towards Nirvana – enlightenment, and as Baba was explaining thus at one point He paused and with a sudden firmness He said, “Anyone who contemplates on The Buddha, can attain Moksha (or liberation).”
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