ဘုရားျဖစ္ေတာ္မူခါနီး၌ မာရ္နတ္လာ၍ ဖ်က္ဆီးေနပံု

ဘုရားအေလာင္းေတာ္သည္ သုဇာတာ၏ ဃနာႏို႕ဆြမ္းကို ဘုဥ္းေပးၿပီး၍ ေနရဥၥရာ ျမစ္ကမ္း၏ ေအးခ်မ္းသာယာေသာ အင္ၾကင္းဥယ်ာဥ္၌ ေန႕အဖို႕တြင္ သန္႕စင္ေနထိုင္ေတာ္မူကာ ညေနခ်မ္းမွာ ေဗာဓိပင္တို အၾကြတြင္ ျမတ္ရိတ္ပုဏားထံ ျမက္ရွစ္ဆုပ္ကို အလွဴခံေတာ္မူခဲ့ၿပီးလွ်င္ ထိုျမက္ေပၚမွာပင္ "ဘုရားမျဖစ္သမွ် ဤတင္ပလႅင္ကို မဖ်က္ေတာ့အံ့" ဟု ဓိဠာန္လ်က္ ထက္၀ယ္ ဖဲြ႕ေခြ ထိုင္ေတာ္မူရာ . . ျဗဟၼာသိၾကား နတ္အမ်ားလည္း ထံပါးသို႕ေရာက္လာၾကေလသည္. . .

ထိုထိုင္ေနပံုကိုျမင္ရ၍ ဧကန္မုခ် ဗုဒၶျဖစ္ေတာ့မည္ကို သိေသာ မာရ္နတ္မင္းသည္ ထန္ျပင္းေသာ ေဒါသျဖင့္ နတ္ျပည္ သို႕ျပန္သြား၍ စစ္သည္တပ္သား စုေဆာင္းကာ မိမိကုိယ္တိုင္ ကလည္း လက္နက္မ်ိဳးစံုကိုင္လ်က္ "တက္ၾကေလာ့ " ဟု ေဆာ္ေအာ ျခိမ္းေျခာက္ေလရာ ဗုဒၶျမတ္စြာ ေလာင္းလ်ာသည္ ရက္စက္ၾကမ္းၾကဳတ္ေနေသာ သားအေပၚတြင္ မိခင္ေမတၱာကဲ့သို႕ ဘ၀မ်ားစြာ အထံုပါေသာ ေမတၱာေတာ္ အစြမ္းျဖင့္ ေအးခ်မ္းၾကည္ျဖဴ ေအာင္ေတာ္မူေလသည္. .

THE FUTURE BUDDHA BEING ATTACKED BY MARA THE EVIL ONE JUST BEFORE HE ATTAINED ENLIGHTENMENT

After eating the milk-porridge offered by Sujata, the Future Buddha took his noonday rest on the bank of the Neranjara, in the cook and pleasant shade of a grove of sal trees. And at nightfall he went towards the Bodhi tree. On the way he received from a grass-cutter named Sotthiya eight handfuls of grsss and sat down cross-legged on that grass. He made the mighty resolution : "I will not stir from this seat until I have attained the supreme and absolute wisdom". Many higher and lower gods with Sakka came near the Future Buddha.

The god Mara, the Evil One , saw the Future Buddha seated in that unconquerable position and knew that he was sure to become a Buiddha. He went back to his celestial realm and brought his army drawn out for battle. He grasped a variety of weapons himself and sounded the warcry "Advance! Seize!" to frightedn the Great Being . But the Future Buddha won a peaceful victory over Mara with the power of loving kindness. which he had practised in his many past lives just as a mother would tame a cruel and wicked son with her maternal love.

အားလံုးကိုခ်စ္ခင္ေလးစားလွ်က္. . . .