The Story of the Buddha and Thevadas : หน้า 13/52

among Buddhists, is a story of the Buddha from Dusit realm, who visited the earth as Siddhata, the royal son of King Suddhothana and Queen Maya. The most quoted story of Buddhism concerns goddess Mekkhala who was appointed as a guardian of oceans and protector of believers in taking the three jewels as refuge and observer of Sila. He properly respected his parents. The Bodhisatta Brahmin who journeyed by sea was shipwrecked. He tried to swim across the ocean for 7 days to reach the shore. Deva Mekkhala saw the event and promised to present all things to him for what he needed; that is, a divine boat and gems. The Bodhisatta was out of danger from the ocean. He became charitable, observed the precepts or morality throughout his life. After this human life he was born in heavenly realm. The Bodhisatta later became the Lord Buddha. Deva Mekhala later became the nun Uppalavanna, whereas the guardian of Bodhisatta later became Venerable Ananda. This is the story of Thevadas becoming humans. Thevadas can be reborn as humans, and humans can be reborn as Thevadas. The Buddha when staying at Chetwan monastery had told this ancient story. In the past he became a Bodhisatta and also a chief of carts. He bought many goods in Karanasi and loaded them on carts. He and other traveling tradesmen went to a parched land. Once they found a dried-up well, they dug it in order to get some drinking water. But they discovered a lot of jewels in the well. The Bodhisatta gave warning that avarice could cause ruin, but no one believed his words. The tradesmen continued digging ceaselessly, hoping to collect more jewels. The well was the dwelling house of the king of nagas. When the well was damaged, the king of nagas was irate, using his nose to spray poison and destroy all tradesmen except the Bodhisatta who later received 7 cartloads of jewels and gave them as alms. This Bodhisatta undertook to observe the precepts until the end of his life, and later was reborn in a heavenly realm. Humans who are bodily, verbally, mentally more charitable shall be Thevadas on a higher plane of heavenly realm. ธรรมะสมเด็จพระสังฆราชองค์ที่ 10 มนุษย์เกิดเป็นเทวาติได้ และเกิดเป็นสัตว์ก็ได้ ในมนุษย์พุทธกาล ชายผู้นี้โคร้งแค้นราคานุกูลตัวตนนี้ที่ติดตามอยู่ตลอดเวลา พระพุทธเจ้าทรงทดสอบ จึงได้ตรัสแสดงให้รู้ว่าบิดาพันไปแล้วนั้น....มาเกิดเป็นสุขนั้น....และได้ทรงพิสูจน์โดยบอกให้สนุขนานไปเที่บงซ้อน ทรัพย์....ซึ่งไม่มีผู้ใด นอกจากผู้นับถือบิดาของชายผู้นั้น และสนุขก็หักไปดูดพบสมบัติที่ผีไว้ก่อนสิ้นชีวิตได้