Five Dreams of Buddha

💐Five Dreams💐

It was the pre-dawn time of the night before the Vesaka full moon night.

The Bodhisatta Siddhattha Gotama lay down under the banyan tree to rest after meditating alone for the entire night. He dozed off. While asleep he had five agreeable dreams that bore testimony to his fruitful future.

  💐First Dream💐

He saw that his body lay on the ground and progressively grew in size until it covered Nepal and India.

The Himalayas in the north had become his pillow. His left hand was on the shore of the Bay of Bengal and the waves of the ocean were washing his hands. In the south his legs were at the shore of the Indian Ocean and the waves were washing his legs.

🌷 This was the first representation of Nepal and India's geographical boundaries which indicated that this great man would become a Buddha and his teachings would be accepted by the entire population of Jambudipa (roughly today's India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal).

His teaching would spread in the north to the countries beyond the Himalayas and in the east, west and south via the ocean route to all of mankind. 

Mount Everest, the highest peak of the Himalayas in Nepal came to be called Matha Kunwar, which originally meant the place where the Bodhisatta Prince Siddhattha had rested his head.

Geography of India The region of India and Nepal resembles a rose apple (jamun). Therefore, since time immemorial, this region was known as 'Jambudipa'.