Hello friends,
I hope you all are well. Today I am going to tell you about Vesak festival. So guys, Vesak is one of the most important days celebrated by buddhists. Tomorrow is the great day of vesak. Every Buddhist in our country prepares for vesak poya since a week or two. They make vesak lanterns, create thorans, practice to perform vesak devotional songs, do various charitable works, and organize dansals. So the buddhist people are preparing to do many such things for the vesak festival.
It is after a few years that the vesak festival is going to be celebrated tomorrow in such a grand manner. Due to the Corona epidemic in previous years and the Easter attack before that, we were not able to celebrate vesak freely. But this year, those problems have been avoided and vesak festival can be celebrated like in the previous years.
Importance of Vesak festival
There are several reasons why vesak is important to buddhists around the world. Among them, the main and most important reason is that Lord Buddha's Sambudu Themagula vesak happened on pun poho day. That is the birth of Prince Siddha, Buddhahood and Lord Buddha's death. On that day Prince Sidhu was born in Lumbini Sal Garden. Also, Lord Buddha's passing away took place in the Upavarthana Sal garden of the children of King Kusinarama Malla.
So the Buddhist people are engaged in various religious ceremonies on the day of vesak in remembrance of this sambudu themagula.
The death of Ananda Maha Rahat, who was the supreme attendant of the Lord Buddha, also took place on the day of the vesak full moon. In addition, Lord Buddha visited our country for the third time on vesak day. It was during this third visit of the Lord Buddha that lord Sumana Saman invited the Lord Buddha to leave a note on the top of the great Sri Padaya Samanala mountain.
Remembering these important events in the life of our Master, the Buddhist people of the world are ready to celebrate Vesak tomorrow in a grand manner.