Solemn thoughts - The Enlightenment

The mind of the Blessed one

Relaxed in peace serene

The darkness faded

The full moon and stars appeared

The Buddha slipped into deep meditation

Passing beyond human understanding

seeing the world as it is

Not as it appears or man sees

Like an eagle soaring

Effortlessly towards the sun in glory,

Mind moving upward and onward

Saw he his former lives

His round of births, with good and evil deeds

With gains and lapses enjoyed and suffered

He saw beings born repeatedly

To die of their Karma accordingly

His vision became crystal dear

The ignorance of call being far and near

Clinging to worthless things, to them clear

His when desire dies and illusions end

Will ignorance vanish like the wind

The sun of Enlightenment, will shine only then,

The Lord understood the world and its suffering

Craving and desire eradicated

The Buddha, in wisdom was perfected!

As without fuel a fire's gone

Attained He, Nirvana, - Never to be born,

This conquest he gained for all

In brilliance bathed

Of wisdom and truth

Sat the Buddha - a heavenly sight,

Around Him the world lay calm and bright

Nibbana won, earth pana was lit,

A soft breeze' lifted the leaves

Of the Bodhi Tree -

Filled with compassion and free

In deep contemplation

And lost in Bliss

In perfect peace, - was the first Buddhist

The Lord Enlightened!

Mallika Kannangara, Ratmalana