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There are many Siddhas, Buddhas and Nathas..... | Kaete Sidh, budh, nath, ketey ketey devi ves<br> | ||
There are many Siddhas, Buddhas and Nathas.....<br> | |||
(Japu, p. 7) | (Japu, p. 7) | ||
The word Buddha seems to have been used for Gautama Buddha, the founder of Buddhism.Mythologically, he was accepted in Hinduism as the ninth incarnation of Vishnu. His great success as a religious teacher seerns to have induced the Brahmin savants to adopt him as their own. As Vishnu's ninth incarnation he encouraged the wicked people to hate Vedas, reject the caste as well as the gods in order to hasten them to their destruction. | The word Buddha seems to have been used for Gautama Buddha, the founder of Buddhism. Mythologically, he was accepted in Hinduism as the ninth incarnation of Vishnu. His great success as a religious teacher seerns to have induced the Brahmin savants to adopt him as their own. As Vishnu's ninth incarnation he encouraged the wicked people to hate Vedas, reject the caste as well as the gods in order to hasten them to their destruction. | ||
==References== | ==References== |
Revision as of 01:15, 7 September 2007
BUDDHA
Kaete Sidh, budh, nath, ketey ketey devi ves
There are many Siddhas, Buddhas and Nathas.....
(Japu, p. 7)
The word Buddha seems to have been used for Gautama Buddha, the founder of Buddhism. Mythologically, he was accepted in Hinduism as the ninth incarnation of Vishnu. His great success as a religious teacher seerns to have induced the Brahmin savants to adopt him as their own. As Vishnu's ninth incarnation he encouraged the wicked people to hate Vedas, reject the caste as well as the gods in order to hasten them to their destruction.
References
1. Kohli, Surindar Singh ed, Dictionary of Mythological References in Guru Granth Sahib, 1993