During the epoch of Buddha, there lived an old begger woman, who lived diferent days with same exisence. She use to watch the fortunate beings making offering to Buddha. She went out begging. However, just like an old adage that beggers have no choice, she greeted dusk with one mere coin as usual. she took it to buy oil.
Whereupon, shopkeeper told her that she could not possibly buy anything with that sum. But when she convinced that she wanted to make offering to Buddha, he took pity on her and favored her the oil. She took it to the monastry and lit a lamp. She placed it before Budda and made this wish: "I have nothing to offer but this tiny lamp. But through this offering, in future may I be blessed with the lamp of wisdom. May I free all beings from their darkness. May I purify all their obscurations, and lead them to enlightenment".
At that instant night, all the lamps were out of oil and went off. But the begger woman's lamp was found burning still at dawn, when Buddha's disciple Maudgalyana came to collect the lamps. When he saw that one with a new wick, full of oil and still alight, he thought, "There's no reason why this lamp should still be burning in the daytime," So, he tried to blow it out. But it kept on burning. He tried to snuff it out with his fingers and smoother it with his robe, but it still remained unwaveringly alight.
The Buddha had been watching all along, and said, "Maudgalyana, do you want to put out that lamp? You cannot. Let alone put it off. If you were to pour the water from all the oceans over this lamp, it still wouldn't go out. The water in all the rivers and lakes of the world could not extinguish it. Why not? Because this lamp was offered with devotion, and with purity of heart and mind. And that motivation has made it of tremendous benefit." When Buddha said this, the begger woman approached him, and he made a prophecy that in future she would become a perfect Buddha, called "Light of the lamp."
The miracles of devotion are not beyond limit if paid genuinely with pure heart. May god bless the wandering soul of every sentient beings and let spirituality brewed and sins be in the hub of dissolution. May our souls be enlightened and rise from the realm of mire samsara to the realm of heaven.
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Excerpt: THE TIBETAN BOOK of LIVING and DYING~Sogyal Rinpoche(Page «93―94»)
Cheers! Pelden#Olox#Dorji.
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