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Buddhadeva finds mention among the Sad Vaishnava sect and is referred as the Ninth incarnation of Sri Hari in many works of the famous Dasavarenyaru like Purandaradasa, Kanakadasa, Vijayadasa and the pontiff of the Madhva Sampradaya like Sri Vadhiraja Thirtharu. In fact there is mention of Buddhadeva in Harivamsha, Vishnu Purana, Bhagavata Purana, Garuda Purana, Agni Purana, Narada Purana, Linga Purana, Padma Purana etc.
Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 1, Chapter 3 Verses 24 says “Then, at the beginning of Kaliyuga, the Sri Hari will appear as Buddhadeva born as son of Anjana, in the province of Gaya, just for the purpose of deluding those who are envious of the faithful theist.” ...
The Bhavishya Purana contains the following: “At this time, reminded of the Kali Age, Sri Hari born as Gautama, taught the Buddhist dharma for ten years. At the first stage of the Kali Age, the path of the Vedas was destroyed and all men became Buddhists.
The conclusion is that though the Hindu Puranas are unclear about Budhadeva they have not been able to ignore Him and His teachings which has indeed has an impact on Hindu Dharma. In this era whether one like it or not Buddhadeva’s teachings are universally accepted and some sects of Hindu system consider Him as the Ninth incarnation of Sri Hari.
I have not been able to understand the version which projects Balarama, the elder brother of Krishna as the eight incarnation and Lord Krishna Himself the Ninth! Why would Sri Hari reincarnate as two forms at the same eon.
Well this needs to be explained as to why Sri Hari, the Vedic God had to appear as Buddhadeva and talk against the Vedas and Upanishads???
The sequence of events that followed after Lord Krishna went back to Paramapada and the end of the Dwapara and the start of Kali made the whole system take a turn. This is not a research thesis but a bit of deep thinking which made me analyse the sequence as follows:
Lord Krishna had in Bhagavad-Gita talked of the Varnashrama Dharma on the basis of Guna (Attributes) and Karma (Prarabdha), mankind started to get the different meaning of it and considered Varnasharma to be categorized as caste and sanctioned it by birth.
Majority in the Brahmin or the priestly class noticed that at the dawn of the agricultural age those farmers who had to toil the farms and work the whole day had no time to study texts and gain knowledge from them. They started to visit the Brahmin sect either early in the morning or late in the evenings to ask for advice based on texts or interpretations. This made the Brahmin sect think that the knowledge they acquire was power and those who did not have them were inferior to them.
This situation made them propagate their own way of interpreting the sacred texts according to their benefit. They also started telling that Sanskrit was the divine language and one who is pure and clean has to learn it and normal individuals who do not take bath daily and not pure, were not allowed to read the texts. Thereby the other class of Kshatriya,Vaishya and Shudra were denied access to holy texts, this made them depend on the Brahmin sect for religious and spiritual knowledge. Brahmin sect started to flourish economically also by getting dakshina from the other class. This situation made a lot more economic sense to force the other class to perform costly rituals at temples from birth to death. Brahmin priest literally became the agents in issuing the ticket to heaven, provided one had the money and were rich enough to perform the ritual mentioned by them. The Brahmin sect went away from Dharma and considered them selves above all.
As Sri Hari had promised to come when Dharma was declining and as there was a gloom of darkness and to illuminate the horizon of mankind Sri Hari incarnated as Buddhadeva. To teach mankind of compassion and kindness which was lost buried deep under the pile of sacred scriptures and holy texts.
Today is Vaishaka Purnima also known as Buddha Purnima the day Buddha appeared to show the path of humanity to us.
Buddhadeva finds mention among the Sad Vaishnava sect and is referred as the Ninth incarnation of Sri Hari in many works of the famous Dasavarenyaru like Purandaradasa, Kanakadasa, Vijayadasa and the pontiff of the Madhva Sampradaya like Sri Vadhiraja Thirtharu. In fact there is mention of Buddhadeva in Harivamsha, Vishnu Purana, Bhagavata Purana, Garuda Purana, Agni Purana, Narada Purana, Linga Purana, Padma Purana etc.
Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 1, Chapter 3 Verses 24 says “Then, at the beginning of Kaliyuga, the Sri Hari will appear as Buddhadeva born as son of Anjana, in the province of Gaya, just for the purpose of deluding those who are envious of the faithful theist.” ...
The Bhavishya Purana contains the following: “At this time, reminded of the Kali Age, Sri Hari born as Gautama, taught the Buddhist dharma for ten years. At the first stage of the Kali Age, the path of the Vedas was destroyed and all men became Buddhists.
The conclusion is that though the Hindu Puranas are unclear about Budhadeva they have not been able to ignore Him and His teachings which has indeed has an impact on Hindu Dharma. In this era whether one like it or not Buddhadeva’s teachings are universally accepted and some sects of Hindu system consider Him as the Ninth incarnation of Sri Hari.
I have not been able to understand the version which projects Balarama, the elder brother of Krishna as the eight incarnation and Lord Krishna Himself the Ninth! Why would Sri Hari reincarnate as two forms at the same eon.
Well this needs to be explained as to why Sri Hari, the Vedic God had to appear as Buddhadeva and talk against the Vedas and Upanishads???
The sequence of events that followed after Lord Krishna went back to Paramapada and the end of the Dwapara and the start of Kali made the whole system take a turn. This is not a research thesis but a bit of deep thinking which made me analyse the sequence as follows:
Lord Krishna had in Bhagavad-Gita talked of the Varnashrama Dharma on the basis of Guna (Attributes) and Karma (Prarabdha), mankind started to get the different meaning of it and considered Varnasharma to be categorized as caste and sanctioned it by birth.
Majority in the Brahmin or the priestly class noticed that at the dawn of the agricultural age those farmers who had to toil the farms and work the whole day had no time to study texts and gain knowledge from them. They started to visit the Brahmin sect either early in the morning or late in the evenings to ask for advice based on texts or interpretations. This made the Brahmin sect think that the knowledge they acquire was power and those who did not have them were inferior to them.
This situation made them propagate their own way of interpreting the sacred texts according to their benefit. They also started telling that Sanskrit was the divine language and one who is pure and clean has to learn it and normal individuals who do not take bath daily and not pure, were not allowed to read the texts. Thereby the other class of Kshatriya,Vaishya and Shudra were denied access to holy texts, this made them depend on the Brahmin sect for religious and spiritual knowledge. Brahmin sect started to flourish economically also by getting dakshina from the other class. This situation made a lot more economic sense to force the other class to perform costly rituals at temples from birth to death. Brahmin priest literally became the agents in issuing the ticket to heaven, provided one had the money and were rich enough to perform the ritual mentioned by them. The Brahmin sect went away from Dharma and considered them selves above all.
As Sri Hari had promised to come when Dharma was declining and as there was a gloom of darkness and to illuminate the horizon of mankind Sri Hari incarnated as Buddhadeva. To teach mankind of compassion and kindness which was lost buried deep under the pile of sacred scriptures and holy texts.
Today is Vaishaka Purnima also known as Buddha Purnima the day Buddha appeared to show the path of humanity to us.
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