We all must have read about the boy who was born at Kapilavastu currently located in the Lumbini zone of Nepal. He was born as the son of king Suddhona and queen Mayadevi. He was named as Siddhartha and later he left his royal life and became the peace messenger for the world, who is also known as the light of Asia. He is the one who taught the world the meaning and path of peace, and still we can see people are following his path of peace. Buddha and peace are synonymous with each other. When a talk about peace starts then it always ends with Buddha's philosophy and vice-versa.
Some years ago most of us must have participated in the actions where we were trying to make believe the world that Buddha was born in Nepal. Different steps were followed, some of us carried banners, Facebook status were written to support it, Facebook pages were also created where we shared different proofs which showed that Buddha was born in Nepal. We did as much as we can from our personal side and our government too supported it. We can still find that the currency of 100 has written on it "Buddha was born in Nepal." We did as as much as we can through our words. Neither then nor now we are concerned with why was Buddha born?
We are just interested to feel proud of his birth place not for his birth purpose. I think Buddha never taught us to be proud for the accident that he was born here. If we are really proud of him then it must have been shown through our actions, we could have started to prove his birth purpose. But who seems to be interested for that? He taught to maintain peace at any cost but we specially the people of Nepal are ready to fight at any cause either it really matters or not. We can fight that's our identity these days. And we still expect that world will keep believing "Buddha was born in Nepal."
Fights and protests in every country is common. But the problem with us is we are ready to fight, either it is with purpose or it is purposeless. We don't only protest, we are ready to be inhuman too. We just need any issue to start a fight or protest. Watch is moving, years are increasing, seasons are passing even our lifestyle have changed but since thirty we are still there. We are fighting within us. The topics are changed but the motto is same. Sometimes it starts with the motto "Backward and forward", later it starts with the motto "Pahadi and Madhesi", at times with the motto "Hindu and Muslim" and so on. Let's give a bit of our life to analyze the newspapers since 15 years. There is not even a single week where we won't find the news, some sort of Nepali killed Nepali. And we are expecting that world will keep believing "Buddha was born in Nepal?"
It's getting more harder to even have a look at daily newspapers of Nepal. 2 killed, 3 shot, 5 kidnapped, 100 hospitalized and the rest bombed. Headlines always covering some fight or dead bodies and Madan Puraskar is distributed covers just a corner of some inner pages. Since the morning to evening, the Facebook, twitter everywhere I just find tear gas exploded, Nepal police and general citizen fighting somewhere. A child was killed, a female was shot, the old man could not escape and some polices too killed. And how can I expect that the world keeps believing that "Buddha was born in Nepal?"
There are two ways to prove something, one is you prove with your words and your logical reasons that supports it and the second one is you try it through your actions. Both are effective in their own ways. With our words we can prove our statements faster than the later one whereas when we start it with actions it is pretty much sure that it will take time but it is always long lasting. That's why it is said that "Action speaks more louder than words." Can we start realizing as soon as possible that what our action speaks.
The world won't understand that either you are a part of government or not. Even they won't ask you that either you participated in the protest or not. They won't be even interested to know that either you carried the flag or the gun. If it continues the same way, then lets start to prepare our answers from today. Because none of our actions support that "Buddha was born in Nepal." In the near future the world will have a single question for all of us "Was Buddha really born in Nepal?"
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