Angulimaan,
the Saint
Angulimaan – one of the well known stories from the Buddhist scripture which at a time gives hope to every individual of a possibility of his transformation and also unmasks the face of society and its ill effect on an individual. It is a story of a higher potential of an individual winning over his break-down situations. It is a story of hope, love, transformation, power and role of Guru and the possibility.
Now, in a certain village during the time of great Guru Buddha also lived a sincere student named ‘Ahimsaka’ (meaning the non-violent one) who was diligent, eager to learn, hard working, intelligent and sincere, pleasing and serving his Guru as he excelled in his studies. As always, there were also students who weren’t good enough, envious of him because of their short comings. If only these students had chosen to work on their failures being inspired by the example set by Ahimsaka, the story would’ve been different for all! But the path chosen by these students was one followed by all spineless, low lying characters – that of bringing about the downfall of the successful and good one!
There
are two ways to feel elated or rejoice being successful – one is to work on
your short comings or cash on your strengths or both, be sincere, hard working
and move ahead of the mediocre crowd. This is the path taken by the
courageous, sincere and right people. The other is
the easy one followed by the large number of failures – that of bringing the
successful one down, work for this downfall, spread rumours and tarnish his
image and goodwill and as he (the right and successful one) falls, rejoice
assuming themselves to be or having become successful. This is ‘assumed
reality’.
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