Bodh Gaya is the most holy place for Buddhists. Situated by the bank of river Neranjana in the Indian state of Bihar, King Ashoka was the first to build a temple here.
Buddha was born in 563 BC in what is now Nepal on the following auspicious Baisakhi purnima. As Siddhartha, he renounced his family at the age of 29 in 534 BC and travelled and meditated in search of truth.
After practicing self-mortification for six years at Urubela (Bodh Gaya) in Gaya, he gave up that practice because it did not give him Vimukthi. Then he discovered Noble Eight-fold path without help from anyone and practiced it. Then he attained Buddhatva or enlightenment.
Enlightenment is a state of being completely free from lust (raga), hatred (dosa) and delusion (moha).
At this place, the Buddha was abandoned by the five men who had been his companions in earlier austerities. All they saw was an ordinary man; they mocked his well-nourished appearance.
He then told them the path which is neither easy (a rich prince) nor hard (living in austere conditions practicing self-denial). The five ascetics became the Buddha’s first disciples in Deer Park, Sarnath, near Kashi.
Over time, the place became known as Bodh Gaya, the day of enlightenment as Buddha Purnima, and the tree as the Bodhi Tree.
A pilgrimage is a journey where a person goes in search of new or expanded meaning about self, others, nature, or a higher good, through experience. It can lead to a personal transformation, after which the pilgrim is evolved to a higher state of consciousness.
The pilgrimage is of huge importance in almost every religion. The pilgrimage sites are considered as high energy centres and a human body is energy itself, which gets recharged when it gets in close vicinity of a high energy centre.
The Mahabodhi Temple complex sounds with a mantra – ‘Buddham Saranam Gacchami’. This mantra is used in our VR experience.
The VR experience is simple and clean and the experience is created as if you are visiting Bodh Gaya in reality.
Bodh Gaya – The Land of Buddha’s Enlightenment is a VR experience which takes you to Bodh Gaya. The main temple complex houses the famous Mahabodhi temple and a descendant of the original Bodhi tree under which Gautama Buddha attained Enlightenment.
Let’s experience Bodh Gaya right away!
Just like Siddhartha evolved himself into Buddha, would you not like to evolve yourself to the highest possibility?
