Buddha: The Birth of Buddha (Part 2)
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Buddha was, and remains, one of the most significant Divine figures to have ever lived and contributed to this world, leaving behind a profound legacy of compassion towards others, as well as fostering personal Spiritual Evolution. Many of the spiritual teachings we embrace today were passed down by Master Buddha, although the form of Buddhism we know now is quite distant from the true essence of the Divine Buddha's teachings. Those who embark on the path of Awakening and begin their personal journey discover the spiritual truths that Buddha shared millennia ago. He was one of the few divine figures who chose to become a Teacher, offering his wisdom to others rather than keeping it for himself. His story is truly remarkable, and from it, we inherit lessons and sayings that continue to shape our lives today, often unconsciously, and we live in a culture deeply influenced by his positive teachings, making decisions guided by them, often without even realizing it. Before we delve into why Buddha became such a pivotal figure on the world stage and how he attained Enlightenment, as well as explore the teachings he left us to access the same wisdom, we must first address and dispel a few myths that were intentionally crafted to manipulate minds and distance us from the true existence of Buddha. First and foremost, we must understand that Buddha, who hailed from India, was not the obese, bald man often depicted, an image that was later created in China as a form of imitation. Furthermore, Buddha’s life is historically documented, as before becoming the figure we now recognize as Buddha, he was a young prince named Siddhartha Gautama. This young man was born into a wealthy and luxurious family, and history acknowledges his existence through solid evidence of his family’s real presence, along with the many traces left by the Master during his travels in search of knowledge and his teachings across various regions. Siddhartha Gautama, the man who would come to be known as the iconic Buddha, was born 566 years before the birth of Jesus, another pivotal Divine figure whom I often explore in my books and articles on the Academy’s website, though they were two distinct souls. Siddhartha was a young prince who had no desire to follow the path his father had laid out for him. In response, his father confined him within the luxurious palace of his kingdom, giving rise to the term "golden cage", a term still used today to describe a life that appears outwardly beautiful and fulfilling but, in reality, is a prison of its own making. There is a fascinating story worth knowing surrounding the conception of Siddhartha, one that truly deserves to be understood with the right perspective. Before Buddha was born, around 560 BCE, in Kapilavastu (present-day Nepal, near the Indian border), his parents, Śuddhodana and Māyā, had been married for many years but were unable to have children, to the point where they had nearly lost hope. Then, one morning, to everyone’s astonishment, Queen Māyā of the Śākya clan became pregnant. The event was sudden and unexpected: Māyā, the queen and future mother of Buddha, was overtaken by an unusual drowsiness that quickly pulled her into a mystical sleep. In this state of semi-consciousness, the queen saw four figures appear before her, whom she recognized as "the Four Guardians of the cardinal directions" (Brahmā, Vāyu, Nirṛti, and Ananta). They approached her, gently lifted her, and carried her "beyond the chain of the Himalayas," where Māyā was laid down at the foot of a tree. There, a preparation ceremony was held for her, which included bathing and adorning her. This type of ceremony was typically reserved for preparing for union—or the marriage that followed—but was also used to honor the arrival of someone of great significance. Afterward, the queen was gently laid on her side. When she was ready, suddenly, a dazzlingly bright star appeared in the sky, moving closer and closer until it touched the ground and transformed into a white Elephant. This majestic and graceful Elephant approached the queen, plucked a lotus flower, and placed it beside her. The flower then entered her womb, disappearing from view without causing her any pain.
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However, another widely told version of the story tells that the white Elephant, which emerged from the mysterious star descending from the sky, bore six tusks on its face, and using one of its sharp tusks, it pierced (or penetrated, though it's unclear) the queen’s womb. Yet, even in this version, no pain was inflicted upon her. It was only after the white elephant’s tusk touched her that the queen miraculously became pregnant. When the queen "awoke" from this peculiar dream, so vivid it seemed, she shared her vision with the entire court, only to discover that she had indeed conceived that very day. The court priests (the brahmins) quickly reached a unanimous conclusion: the dream was a prophetic sign that the unborn child would grow up to be a great Enlightened one, a powerful and remarkable figure. This story must be examined through a psychic lens, because, even though it was told two and a half millennia later, there is certainly a real foundation that explains what happened. The star the queen saw in the sky, which gradually drew closer to her until it "transformed" into an Elephant, suggests that the star was likely a UFO, and the Elephant-like humanoid was, in fact, an Alien, a member of the Elephant race, a generally positive Alien species. What the queen was recounting was a real experience, in which she witnessed an Alien race with elephant-like features descend from the "bright star," an UFO of origin, leading us to infer she had a direct, close encounter. We must also consider that ancient India had remarkable experiences with Alien races and UFOs (just consider the Vimanas, flying objects, and even entire flying cities described particularly during the wars of the Mahabharata and Ramayana), and the elephant-like alien race had a profound impact on Indian civilization. After all, even Krishna had significant encounters with these elephant-like Aliens, and it was precisely because of their presence that the elephant (the animal) became such a revered and sacred symbol in India. I delve deeper into the existence of this Alien race in the third volume of Becoming Aware of Aliens – Angel Jeanne.
Returning to the miraculous pregnancy of the queen, the future mother of Buddha, it becomes clear that she was sedated and put into a deep sleep by the very same Aliens (this explains the strange, unusual drowsiness that led her into what appeared to be a "mystical dream," though it was far from simply a dream). These beings then "abducted" her and transported her to a place where the white Elephant being would enable her to conceive a child. It remains unclear whether a physical union took place, as the queen described being pierced in the womb by a sharp instrument but felt no pain, although she did not speak of a true physical encounter. Despite the fact that the Sākya Lords had struggled for many years to conceive a child, it was on that very day, following the strange "dream," that queen Māyā became pregnant. The queen gave birth to the child, but tragically passed away a week later. Later, Buddha claimed to have experienced past lives, one of which included him being a white Elephant. The six tusks of the Alien elephant symbolized the advanced technologies it wielded; the higher the rank of the elephant-humanoid within his species, the more sophisticated the technologies he commanded, and this particular white Elephant was undoubtedly the Commander, if not even the King, of the Alien race, as evidenced by the fact that he possessed his own UFO and wielded highly advanced technologies, tools that lower-ranking aliens could not use for their own purposes but only under the command of their leader. Buddha, eager to reincarnate, could not afford to wait any longer, so he used the available technologies to accelerate the process.
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From this story, it is clear that the Alien who enabled the queen to conceive on that day was most likely none other than Buddha himself, preparing for his future reincarnation in human form. The use of a tusk to pierce her allows us to associate this act with the advanced technological tools of the Alien race, which altered the woman’s womb, making her instantly pregnant. After all, there is no record of the origin of the seed that caused the queen’s pregnancy, whether it came from Buddha’s father or from the elephant race, perhaps with the intent of preserving the genetic material and DNA of the elephant species within the unborn Siddhartha, ensuring that he would carry the memory of his origins.
In truth, the white Elephant transmitted the seed through a technological tool, which the queen described as resembling a tusk, injecting it into her womb to bring Buddha into existence. This reveals the urgency surrounding Buddha’s birth, to the point that the Alien race had to use their advanced technologies to hasten the pregnancy, ensuring that the child, the future Master of the world, was born without any further delays or obstacles. Among the Guardians whom the queen "dreamed of" on that day, who took her away, only for her to later discover she was pregnant, was the God Brahmā. This is especially significant, as the involvement of one of the most powerful Gods in the arrival of Buddha underscores just how crucial it was for them that Siddhartha, the future Buddha, be born.
There is another version of this story that depicts Siddhartha emerging directly from his mother’s womb and being placed at her side, as though it were a miraculous birth. Today, we would simply call this a cesarean section, but 2,600 years ago, neither the people of that time nor anyone could have imagined such a possibility. In fact, the surgical practice of cesarean sections was first recorded in the 1500s (two thousand years after Buddha’s birth!) and was then abandoned until 1876, when it was revived by an Italian gynecologist. Interestingly, the term "cesarean" is said to be derived from the name of Julius Caesar. At the time (715 BCE), the procedure was already being performed, but only on deceased women, in order to save the child from mothers who died during labor. This practice gave rise to the term "césares," meaning "cut," which was used to describe the incision made to extract the fetus from the woman’s womb. However, public history tells us that it wasn’t until after the 1500s that the procedure evolved to allow for the extraction of the baby while keeping both the mother and child alive Yet, it is said that Julius Caesar himself was born via cesarean section at a time when the procedure was only performed on deceased women; despite this, his mother survived for several years after his birth. For this reason, history questions whether it was truly possible for him to have been born via cesarean, given that all women of that era died from the procedure, but we cannot deny that Julius Caesar was a Divine figure, and therefore, his miraculous birth must have been one that resulted in a successful cesarean, one of the rare instances at the time where both mother and child survived. That said, it cannot be denied that cesarean sections have always been, and still are, extremely dangerous and unnatural, which is why natural childbirth should always be preferred when possible. Many women died during cesarean sections, and perhaps it was for this reason that Buddha’s mother tragically passed away. In ancient India, during Buddha’s time, it was almost inconceivable for people to imagine that a woman could give birth via cesarean section instead of through the traditional natural process. Today, we possess a wealth of knowledge about modern technologies, knowledge that would have been completely beyond their understanding, as they had no means of seeing or experiencing it firsthand.
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Buddha's mother clearly witnessed and experienced firsthand those events that allowed Buddha to be born. According to her vision, she was meant to give birth at home, but while traveling with her husband, she couldn’t reach their residence in time and ended up giving birth in the forest of Lumbinī, likely without receiving the proper care from those around her. In fact, Buddha’s mother passed away just a week after giving birth, which highlights how much his birth was hindered, to the point that Darkness tried multiple times to take her life while she carried the child, aiming to end both their lives. The death of Buddha’s mother was undoubtedly an action of Darkness, as the father held total control over his son’s life; nevertheless, Buddha was nurtured by other women, especially his mother’s sister. We can also imagine that Siddhartha's mother may have quickly reincarnated into another body, reborn as close as possible to Siddhartha, and to the future Master of the world, in hopes of experiencing his greatest teachings, thanks to the simultaneous nature of their existence.
Others recognized this very destiny. In particular, during the ceremony celebrating Siddhartha’s birth, as everyone rejoiced, his father, King Suddhodana, who ruled one of the northern Indian states, sought to learn his heir's future far in advance. For this reason, he called upon Asita, the wise old sage admired by all, to reveal the child’s fate. The sage, fully capable of doing so, used astrology to tell the king that Siddhartha would become extraordinarily powerful, so much so that his future could either lead him to be a universal Monarch or an ascetic who would pursue the path of Awakening and ultimately attain it, becoming a Buddha (a term meaning "Awakened"). The old sage wept as he foresaw the extraordinary and remarkable future of the newborn, both intriguing and alarming those present. The king, concerned or disturbed, asked why the sage was crying, and the man responded that his tears were caused by the joy of discovering such an incredible being, someone as unique and exceptional as Siddhartha was destined to become; yet, he also wept out of sadness, knowing his advanced age would prevent him from hearing or benefiting from the Buddha’s teachings in this lifetime. Asita was so acutely aware of the vast global transformation Siddhartha would bring once he attained Awakening that he mourned the thought of not being present for it. The sage was so certain that Siddhartha’s teachings would be the greatest in the world that he made his nephew, Nālaka, swear to follow the Buddha as soon as he began teaching and to learn and practice all of his teachings at any cost. The nephew kept his promise, and was incredibly fortunate to be able to experience the live teachings of the greatest Master the world would ever know. There is no doubt that even Asita, once deceased, reincarnated urgently, without hesitation, to be born as close as possible to Buddha so that he could benefit from his teachings firsthand and witness the life of such a unique Master. During the ceremony celebrating the newborn Siddhartha, everyone learned of the future foretold by the wise sage. Perhaps they underestimated it, or perhaps not, but one thing was certain: the king did not dismiss the prophecy and could not accept that his only son would one day abandon the plans he had for him in order to follow his own path to Awakening. The king wanted his son to live exactly as he had envisioned, and he could not accept that Siddhartha might change that plan. His son’s destiny was of no consequence to the king, Siddhartha was meant to live as the king desired. For this reason, without his son's knowledge, the king meticulously orchestrated every aspect of his kingdom to prevent the Awakening of Buddha in every possible way. Every single event, every small gesture, and every word spoken by anyone within the kingdom was carefully designed to thwart Buddha’s spiritual Awakening.
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