What Made Buddha The Great by Jayanti Sekhar
What Made Buddha The Great by Jayanti Sekhar When I heard the story of Gautam Buddha, my question was always about his wife and son that he left behind...this write-up by Vikram Bhattacharya touches that p art of the story He left her in the middle of the night, the night their son was born. When she heard the news she was devastated. Yet, she did not complain but her life lost all meaning. The only reason for her to live now was her son. She wanted him to grow up to be a man that the world would look up to. Her friends and relatives came around and asked her to forget about the man who had left her and start life again. They asked her to marry again but she refused. She was young & beautiful & suitors queued up outside her door, but she refused each one of them. Then one fine day he came back! He stood in front of her and she could hardly remember him as the man who had left her. “They call you the B...