Awakened one? Someone who got up after a deep sleep? Well, you can say like that. And some people might say it’s not. If we look in to the depth of that statement, yes, you can say that the awakened one is a person who had got up after a deep sleep.
What is this deep sleep? It is not a simple question to answer since it needs numerous information and needs to be combined in order to give a comprehensive answer. In the universe everything, every object that we see and we don’t see, recycles. It’s a circle. A revolution. For this statement to be understandable, think of a solar system. All planets rotate around the sun. Our moon rotates around earth. Even our whole solar system rotates around the black hole located in the middle of our Milky Way.
Therefore we can come to a clear statement about the cycle of life. According to Buddhist context, in the ocean of life or Sansara, our souls recycles. We are born and we die. This repeats until we put a stop to it. The awakened one is the person who put this to an end.
Well, it’s not easy as I say. In order to be awakened you need to know the universal knowledge. Even though you have it, you must be able to connect all the dots and find the ultimate truth of the knowledge. The conclusion of the universal theories. Once you understand this ultimate truth, or this key, you have the liberty of stopping your soul being recycled and all the suffering.
Well, it’s not easy as I say. In order to be awakened you need to know the universal knowledge. Even though you have it, you must be able to connect all the dots and find the ultimate truth of the knowledge. The conclusion of the universal theories. Once you understand this ultimate truth, or this key, you have the liberty of stopping your soul being recycled and all the suffering.
Finding this key and the ultimate truth is like hacking into an encrypted system by figuring out the password. When you have the password, all the information you need in the system will be in the palm of your hands. That’s the easy part. But figuring out the password is the most painful part. To figure it out, you have to be a professional at the game, and you should possess all the knowledge. The same thing with the awakened one scenario. Realizing the truth is easy once you own the universal knowledge. But collecting that knowledge, as I mentioned above is the hardest part.
Every being on this universe will one day be able to be awakened. But since Sansara is infinite, we do not know when we will be enlightened. I can be enlightened in this life time and you can be enlightened billions and billions of eons after or it can be vice versa. We do not know.
But one thing I can say is that everything that we do, we do it to collect bits and bits of knowledge to be awakened one day. Every happiness and sadness we face, we face it to comprehend reality and use it as our weapon to fight our bond to the universe.
But one thing I can say is that everything that we do, we do it to collect bits and bits of knowledge to be awakened one day. Every happiness and sadness we face, we face it to comprehend reality and use it as our weapon to fight our bond to the universe.
- Akila Hettiarachchi