You will find talks on the Buddha on auromaa. Also we had taken out an issue of All India Magazine on the Path of Buddha in May 2018. Will send you the links.
Yes the Mother gave her last commentaries on the Dhammapada, perhaps to emphasise the necessity of mastery over thoughts, speech and feelings as well as to cultivate the right attitudes towards the world and humanity. It is like a fundamental preparation for the higher spiritual life. Sri Aurobindo described the Mother as ‘an adept in the Buddhist Yoga’ among many other spiritual realisations of Her. The Mother herself describes, in one of Her prayers dated 20th December 1916, a communication She receives from Sakya Muni (the Buddha). In fact there are number of Her experiences with the Buddha described in different conversations.
Sri Aurobindo regarded the Buddha as one of the ten Avatars.
‘The Hindu procession of the ten Avatars is itself, as it were, a parable of evolution. First the Fish Avatar, then the amphibious animal between land and water, then the land animal, then the Man-Lion Avatar, bridging man and animal, then man as dwarf, small and undeveloped and physical but containing in himself the godhead and taking possession of existence, then the rajasic, sattwic, nirguna Avatars, leading the human development from the vital rajasic to the sattwic mental man and again the overmental superman. Krishna, Buddha and Kalki depict the last three stages, the stages of the spiritual development—Krishna opens the possibility of Overmind, Buddha tries to shoot beyond to the supreme liberation but that liberation is still negative, not returning upon earth to complete positively the evolution; Kalki is to correct this by bringing the Kingdom of the Divine upon earth, destroying the opposing Asura forces. The progression is striking and unmistakable.’
One of his main work was to teach humanity the way out of suffering whose roots are in Ignorance. The Buddha did not indulge in metaphysical speculations leaving the Beyond as ‘the Permanent ‘ beyond any definition or description. His Shoonyam and Nirvana is the same as the Adwaitin’s Ekamevadwitiyam and laya or Moksha. Though himself a mighty and powerful intelllect and an inner warrior, a misunderstanding of his doctrines eventually led to the same fate as of Shankaracharya’s Adwait, that is to say., towards Illusionism and a disregard for earthly life leading to a progressive withdrawal of Shakti from the Aryabhoomi, Bharat.
Affectionately,
Alok Da
Below sharing All India Magazine which has covered Buddha.
