How did they say a person could free themselves from the sins of the world? how did they tell an individual they could achieve eternal life?
How did they give a person HOPE, HAPPINESS, SPIRITUAL HEALING?
Or are you saying they are just Good Men who had some Good ideas for human beings?
2007-07-24 05:34:36 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
None is perfect except Prophets and then they also never claimed that they were perfect. The only perfect being is God.
Simbha has given a good historical aspect of these two personalities.
But I have to add something which is important...While Gutuma Buddha was spritually enlightened, Gandhi was a political leader only, with an added taste for simplicity. But the two can not be in the same class. While former was the founder of Buddhism the latter was founder of modern India.
In India there has been a common custom of worshiping persons,and other political leaders, kings.
But Only God is to be worshiped.
Buddha achieved nirvana.. a state of being in tune or part of the eternal truth, while Gandhi only preached and led masses.
And when some one talks of truth, the words are all the same,the language may be different. All the religions, all the sages, and all the pious persons have talked about it and since there is only "One Truth" that is why all seem to be saying the same thing.
To attain Nirvana is through obediance to One God, One mankind, One Being and comes after shunning all these avarices that rob our souls.It can be achieved by any person from any religion.The basic foundation to all this is to be content.
This is also for J.P.
Eternal life and Nirvana are two names for the same Phase.
2007-07-24 07:05:36 · answer #1 · answered by bakhan 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'm struggling to find an appropriate context in which "Gandhi" and "Buddha" might be used in the same sentence except the statement "Gandhi and Buddha both were born in what is now India."
There have been many Buddhas but the one most often referred to as "Buddha" was Prince Siddhartha Gautama who, as the story goes, sought a path from the ills of the world and achieved enlightenment sitting under a Bodhi tree The basic conclusion was that detachment from desire would lead to a state of non-being. (Wow! THAT was overly simplistic.)
Mahatma Gandhi was a leader of the peaceful resistance against the British empire in what is now India. He is often regarded as the father of the modern nation of India.
Neither claimed to be free of sin or purported to be able to free others. (Although it may appear Buddha did this, the word "sin" isn't an appropriate descriptor.)
Both have given hope, happiness and spiritual healing to many people around the world... I'm not sure why this is an issue. Oh well.
2007-07-24 12:49:20 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Buddha translates to enlightened one. So Ghandi may be considered a buddha.
What gives you hope,happiness, spiritual healing, can only be decided by you.
2007-07-25 03:12:56 · answer #3 · answered by Part-time Antagonist 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
False Prophet with false religion is Ghandi and Buddah.
2007-07-24 12:41:09 · answer #4 · answered by Jeancommunicates 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can't speak for the others, but what I'M saying is that they were Men of Knowledge, not Men of Beliefs! Can you say the same for Jesus, as represented by the Bible?
They did not "free" themselves from "sin", they freed themselves from IGNORANCE!
Blind Faith does not give you eternal life, it gives you eternal Ignorance!
2007-07-24 12:52:52 · answer #5 · answered by Champion of Knowledge 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You don't have to be perfect to be a good role model. I can think of five people off the top of my head that I know personally that are great role models, and none of them are perfect.
God said in the Old Testament, "Don't worship anyone but me." A lot of people don't see Jesus as being worthy of worship based on those words. They still see him as an excellent role model. I'm somewhere in the middle. You gotta respect perfect more than almost perfect. But Jesus admits he isn't God.
2007-07-24 12:41:58 · answer #6 · answered by Tim 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People said that they had "great strong moral character", not that they were perfect. And you don't have to be so rude. If you're so interested in Buddha and Ghandi, read about them.
2007-07-24 12:41:56 · answer #7 · answered by SpartFarkles 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, the goal of Buddhism is ultimately a state of Nirvana, a state of non-being, which ultimately equates to willful self-annihilation.
Buddhism does not have as a goal the attainment of eternal life.
You presume the existence of sin. There is no such thing, and no need for salvation from it.
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dr_bakhan:
I'm sorry, according to most sects of Buddhism you are incorrect. Nirvana is not considered a form of eternal life in most forms of Buddhism.
2007-07-24 12:38:43 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
Before you go on preaching, I think you need to come to terms with the fact that we might be wrong. There is, after all, no right way when it comes to religious beliefs. That is what faith is all about.
2007-07-24 12:37:47 · answer #9 · answered by The Pope 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Jesus stole his ideas of good from Buddah
2007-07-24 12:37:24 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 2⤋