Angulimaan, the Saint

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Angulimaan, the Saint

But, putting aside his past life and horoscope, what exactly do you think were the circumstantial causes that brought about the change in him – that of a meek, humble and soft Brahmin boy into a heartless, dangerous and notorious killer and at such magnitude? Or in other words, who and what exactly were the causes of his change? Please go through the story again and get this answer.

He had killed 999 people already and was waiting eagerly for his 1000^th victim. That was the time his mother could no more hear evil and bad about him and decided to go in search of him and bring about the transformation in him. When his mother decided to go and meet her son, Lord Buddha saw in his vision the same and realized that if his mother went to meet him, then he would certainly kill her to complete his count and that would be a no-return point for him from his sins as matricide is considered as one of the unforgivable and heinous sins with immediate and irreversible result. That means he would be sent to lowest of hells. He couldn’t let that happen.

With his faculty of remembering his and others’ past lives he saw that Ahimsaka had been part of and close to Buddha in his previous lives. So, when he saw their lives crossing paths again, he couldn’t stop himself from trying to bring greater good in his life. So, instead he decided to reach the forest before her. Many advised him against it. They gave gory description of Angulimaan’s character and way of killing people. But Buddha didn’t let any of that change his decision. All these people out of love and respect for Buddha were doing ‘the right thing’ by trying to stop him from going into that dreaded forest. Their feelings and intentions were right. But Buddha didn’t follow their advice inspite of it being ‘right’.

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