Shakya price Siddhartha as he known as he was known in his early years was the only son of King Suddhodan and Queen Maya Devi. He was very compassionate from his early childhood. The brilliant example of his kindness towards the living beings in his early childhood is his effort to save the life of a goose wounded down by his own cousin brother Devdatta's arrow. At that time refusing the claim of Devdatta over the wounded goose, he argued before King Suddhondan that the claim over the wounded goose must go to the savior rather than to of the killer. That was really a thought provoking incident of his compassionate heart towards the feeling and suffering living beings.

Kaundanya- the youngest of 108 wise Brahman astrologers of that time, showing only one finger, had said with great determination that Prince Siddhartha would become the Buddha. That was the clear indication that he will renounciate worldly life for the sake of human being and world peace. So three sophisticated palaces for three different seasons were built for him. In order to keep the Prince be engaged in the worldly pleasures King Suddhondan ordered to pay attention for every minor provisions for his enjoyment, it was because of the intention that his son might become the Chakravartimaharaja in the world. But, those luxurious worldly enjoyments in the palace expressed in terms of melodious and tempting dances by beautiful dancers in fact became the source on inspiration for the Prince to search the path of peace and enunciated the worldly living at the age of twenty-nine at the peaceful night of Ashada full moon day.

Prince Siddhartha had seen an old man, a sick man, a dead body and a holy sage, when he went out in his chariot to the four directions of Kapilvastu city. He was very badly shocked by the four scenes and very firmly resolved to follow the path of peace. He did not like to hurt his father's love so he humbly asked for four things. Had King Suddhodan fulfilled the four things. Prince Siddhartha had asked for he could have been succeeded in stopping Siddhartha from renunciation. The four things demanded were (1)he should never die, (2)he should never be old, (3)he should never be diseased and (4)he should never reborn even if he dies.

Those four demands though apparently sounds fantastic but within there lies the true knowledge of the philosophy of human sufferings deeply hidden. The true cause if these can be revealed by spiritual consciousness and concentrated thinking. The insight knowledge that makes us capable to find out the true source of cause and their effects as well as the answer to those very difficult questions, is the right knowledge i.e. Sammek Sambodhidyana. Any one who is capable of discovering this is in real sense is capable of attaining Buddha hood and becomes the Buddha in this very human life. It is only this human life that the Buddha hood can be obtained. This is why human life is considered to be the most exalted one in Buddhism.

Knowing the value of the human life; Siddhartha himself engaged in harden ascetic life in search of knowledge and peace for the sake of living beings. He practiced the most difficult yogic exercises without any food for many days and months reducing his decayed body nothing can be done. So he started taking food for refreshing his decayed body. After the hard practice of meditation for six months he attained the supreme stage of knowledge and became the fully enlightened one. He became Buddha on the full moon day of Baisakh (April-May)

Lord Buddha had preached the four noble truths: sufferings, causes of suffering, elimination of suffering and the path of ending the suffering. He had discovered the golden, middle which is the easiest and simplest way of attaining knowledge. It has eight different disciplinary paths that one must follow very consciousness for attaining perfection. Right View, Right Determination, Right Speech, Right Action, Right Livelihood, Right Exercise, Right Memory and Right Concerntration are the eight paths that are why it is called 'eight fold path'. This is the only way for mankind the makes easy and possible to be the Buddha in this very human life.

If you follow these teachings of Shakyamuni Buddha your body, speech and mind will become as clear as a crystal. Neither there will be any stain on I t nor can you think of staining any other person or worldly matters. As it is totally based on universal fraternity and world peace therefore no one will even think of destruction if human beings. It is because of the love and affection deeply enrolled in human beings; already enshrined into the pure and so precious human body, that only a little effort is sufficient to arise and make it follow the path of world peace for the sake of mentioning and preserving human civilization of the twentieth century.

Most of the articles of the charter of the United Nations Organization is based on the Panchashils, the five precepts of Buddhism. In simple words depriving lives, taking without requesting, giving false statement, adulteration and using intoxicates are five bad habits that seriously disturb the mental peace. It you are conscious of the cause and effects of these bad practices can easily refrain from these. Yes refraining from those five bad universal what in Buddhism is known as observing PANCASHILA. Which is the foundation for mental peace, family peace, regional peace, national peace and universal for at large? This is why the teachings of Buddhism is of utmost importance in this technically civilized modern world terribly facing towards undesired happenings against humanity.  

- Swasti Ratna Sakya
Source: Peace Magazine