Once Buddha was preaching somewhere. At the end of his discourse, he said, "Wake up time is going out of hand". After the end of the discourse, he told his beloved disciple "Anand" that let's move around a little bit. Anand went along with Buddha. They just reached Vihar's main door and stood on one side. The people who came to hear the discourse were coming out one by one. So there was a lot of crowd. Suddenly, a woman came out to meet Gautam Buddha. She said I am a dancer. Today, there was a dance function in someone house which was already fixed but I forgot about it. You said that "Wake up time is going out of hand", so I immediately remembered that point.
After that one Dacoit came to Buddha. He said that I will not hide anything from you. I had forgotten that today I had to go to a place for robbery. And after hearing your sermon today I remembered this, thank you very much. After he went, slowly an old man came to Buddha. The old man said that I ran away behind the world's things in my whole life and now a day has come near to face death and now I feel that whole life has become useless. And after listening to your discourse today my eyes are open. From today, I want to leave all my worldly desires and try for Nirvana.
When all the people went from there, Buddha said to his disciple Anand, "Look, I had given only one and the same discourse." But everyone took a different meaning from that. It shows that everyone can gain knowledge according to their understanding. The higher is your understanding level, the more you can attain knowledge. Our mind should also be worth it to get Nirvana. To attain Nirvana, it is very important for the mind to be pure.
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