My date with the Buddha

My date with a Buddha.

Siddhartha Gautama had always intregued me right from school days.

As an adult I could appreciate him even more. We are more or less  similar personality types...Perpectual worriers.or  Over thinkers, as it is labeled these days.

But over thinking, did gave him his answers. And answers for the whole world too, in the bargain.

So when I got a chance to be in Bodh Gaya, I Grabbed the chance with both hands, and I was finally  standing where the tree of enlightment stands.

Now though Buddha is  worshipped by practicising Buddhists  all over the world, he is still different from others ie  a Hindu God, say a Rama or a Krishna, because it is known that they are  Gods in human forms.

Whereas the  Buddha is worshipped as a human in human form.

And while I stood in front of the tree in silent contemplation, it was of course  a serene moment, but it was  when I saw stones, just near the tree,  labeled, the place where Buddha stood to meditate, that   his  humanness hit me hard like a burst of cold air.

That I  was actually standing and breathing at a place where the Buddha would have breathed, have  stood or walked 2500 years ago, was mind blowing overwhelming.

And my sense of wonder, at the realisation, remained unabated, till it was time to leave.
For a change I didn't feel the need to collect pepal leaves either