"Birth is exhausted,the holy life has been lived,what has to be done is done,there is no more of this to come."
2007-01-28 20:40:31 · 7 answers · asked by philips e 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
An Arahant.
2007-01-28 20:46:10 · answer #1 · answered by Anger eating demon 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Gautama passed into deep meditation and gained various kinds of new knowledge. He saw into his past lives; he saw how karma works (karma means volitional action: action done by choice or conscious decision; it has inevitable effects - good actions produce good results, bad actions produce bad results); he also saw how to overcome desire, attachment to existence and clinging to false or fixed views. Finally, as the morning star rose, he awakened as from a dream and could declare: 'It is liberated . . . birth is exhausted, the Holy Life has been lived out, what was to be done has been done, there is no more to come . . .' He was Gautama no more but The Buddha The Awakened One. He had seen things as they really are. Sometimes he is spoken of as having attained Nirvana. Nirvana is - the extinction of greed, the extinction of hate, the extinction of delusion. Its true nature cannot be put into words; a person must know it for himself in his own heart.
God Bless You
2007-01-28 20:51:36 · answer #2 · answered by ? 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Buddha
2007-01-28 20:49:37 · answer #3 · answered by NONAME 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Augustine?
2007-01-28 20:47:05 · answer #4 · answered by ka'iwi 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wrong, there is a whole eternity to be lived! Are you all ready burned out?
2007-01-28 20:48:17 · answer #5 · answered by bungyow 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Buddha said it, supposedly, in the "Fire Sermon."
2007-01-28 20:49:44 · answer #6 · answered by Last Ent Wife (RCIA) 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
He is a doctor.
2007-01-28 20:46:24 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋