Vesak Poya – Significant and Historical Aspect

compress_CaptureThe young ascetic Sumedha was committed to achieve the highest spiritual realm, only a few could reach. That day he heard Dipankara Buddha was visiting his town. What he wanted was a definite prophecy that he would be a Buddha in eons to come.

However the place was congested with people and the young man could hardly reflect a way of seeing Dipankara Buddha. When he spotted the muddy road, his mind worked in a different plane.

He requested the Great Teacher and his retinue to walk over him. Dipankara Buddha saw the young man’s thought in his divine eye, and knew the youth’s wish will materialise in uncountable eons to come.

Dipankara Buddha prophesied ascetic Sumedha would be a Buddha named Gotama in the future. The day Buddha declared the solemn prophecy to his twenty-fourth successor was a Vesak Full Moon Poya day.

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