Amitabha Buddha:
Amitabha is
made of two words such as Amit and Bhaskar. Amit means never finishing and
Bhaskar means sun or light. Word Amit is developed from word Amrita. Amrita
means never dying and substitute word for life. Amrita is nectar which gives
life to a death. Amitabha Buddha means limit less light of wisdom. We also say
him Amritambhava Buddha as he has given the life to the existence or world.
This is the state of mind full of desires and rising energy to observe the
world. Most respectful and most valuable state of all desire is to be
compassionate to all. Realization of self-life or living is said as one of
the five great state of mind. For that we named it Amitabha Buddha. Since
we named it as a Buddha, I have addressed as He for this wisdom.
He is the
source of wisdom whose infinitive bright light is expanding into entire
universe. He is also said as nectar, he is spreading his nectar to everywhere
give us energy to work. He is a life or awakened. He has never finishing nectar
like wisdom which he is showing to all creatures. This means till we have life
we have many possibilities or hopes.
He is light or
fire element. He is also said as the Sun. He is said as an eye of entire
universe because his light made all creatures able to see the wonderful world.
This light illuminated all colors and became visible to our eyes. He made self-identification
and others identification. He is the maker of day so that all creatures can do
progress, experience and prepare for feeding. All the progress is possible only
from the light of wisdom. This wisdom we get from concentration. Meditation is
the way to gain concentration.
He has wisdom
of discriminating or observation. He is appeared in empty dark space to observe
self or entire universe. He is observing all good and bad happening of Nature.
For the purpose of liberating creatures from the sufferings of universal
activities he is looking with his compassionate eyes. He is the Buddha who is
taking good care and looking all creatures graciously, so he is the
compassionate Buddha. By the help of this Buddha or his wisdom Avalokiteshowra
or Karunamaya became Buddha of compassion. All the sufferings are caused by
ignorance which is like darkness so he is destroying all activities of lust,
envy, anger, pride, ignorance, aversion and passion. Being light of wisdom he
became teacher of all creatures. He is life after the death. He is the day
after the night. Life gains everything whereas death loses everything.
This Buddha is
riding on a peacock. Peacocks have sparkling feathers all around their body. Its
spreading beautiful tail feathers are admired by others same as sun or light of
wisdom is admired by entire universe. The sun changes darkness into the light,
in the same way peacock can eat poisonous plants and change it into beautiful
feathers.
He is symbolized by lotus because he is
looking entire universe and its living beings compassionately. He is placed in
the west of Stupa. He is facing towards west direction. He
is represented by an eye as a sensational organ which can identify everything
and everybody. He is meditating to gain knowledge about entire universe.
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