Buddha and How Purity Can Never be Killed

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Buddha and How Purity Can Never be Killed

 

When Buddha was born, he was so pure that whosoever looked at his face from a

distance immediately gave up the ceremonial religion and

became a monk and became saved.

 

So the gods held a meeting. They said, 'We are undone.' Because most of the gods

live upon the ceremonials. These sacrifices go to the gods and these sacrifices

were all gone. The gods were dying of hunger and it was that their power was

gone.

 

So the gods said: 'We must, anyhow, put this man down. He is too pure for our

life.'

 

And then the gods came and said: 'Sir, we come to ask you something. We want to

make a great sacrifice and we mean to make a huge fire, and we have been seeking

all over the world for a pure spot to light the fire on and could not find it,

and now we have found it. If you will lie down, on your breast we will make the

huge fire.'

 

'Granted,' he says, 'go on.' And the gods built the fire high upon the breast of

Buddha, and they thought he was dead, and he was not.

 

And then they went about and said, 'We are undone.' And all the gods began to

strike him.

 

No good. They could not kill him. From underneath the voice comes: 'Why making

all these vain attempts?'

 

'Whoever looks upon you becomes purified and is saved, and nobody is going to

worship us.'

 

'Then, your attempt is vain, because purity can never be killed.'

 

(From Complete Works Of Swami Vivekananda volume 3)

 

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