RAJEE Ba

Paintings by RAJEE Ba at Yogada in the Himalayas – Rishikesh (India ) : Birth of Budha

According to the legends about BUDHA's birth, the newborn began to walk seven steps forward and at each step, a lotus flower appeared on the ground.

The story goes .........…. About ten months after her dream of a white elephant and the sign that she would give birth to a great leader, Queen Maya was expecting her child. One day she went to the king and said, "My dear, I have to go back to my parents. My baby is almost due." Since it was the custom in India for a wife to have her baby in her father's house, the king agreed, saying, "Very well, I will make the necessary arrangements for you to go." The king then sent soldiers ahead to clear the road and prepared others to guard the queen as she was carried in a decorated palanquin. The queen left Kapilavatthu in a long procession of soldiers and retainers, headed for the capital of her father's kingdom. (Relief depicting Queen Maya found in Borobudur Temple - Central Java, Indonesia) the 2nd is the Sculpture of Budha's mother dreaming.

On the way to the Koliya country, the great procession passed a garden called Lumbini Park. This garden was near the kingdom called Nepal, at the foot of the Himalayan mountains. The beautiful park with its sala trees and scented flowers and busy birds and bees attracted the queen. Since the park was a good resting place, the queen ordered the bearers to stop for a while. As she rested underneath one of the sala trees, her birth began and a baby boy was born. It was an auspicious day. The birth took place on a full moon (which is now celebrated as Vesak, the festival of the triple event of Buddha's birth, enlightenment, and death), in the year 623 B.C.

After the birth of her baby son, Queen Maha Maya immediately returned to Kapilavatthu. When the king learned of this he was very happy, and as news of the birth of the long-awaited heir spread around the kingdom there was rejoicing all over the country.
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