PATH TO ENLIGHTENMENT

What is the story of these 108 snails?
One day Lord Buddha was meditating under a tree and was so engrossed that he did not notice the passage of time. The sun was just overhead, and the earth was warming up. Since Buddha had a shaved head, the rays of the sun were falling directly on his head. At this point a snail was passing through that place. The snail noticed that Lord Buddha had meditated in this heat. Even though he was sitting under a tree, the sun was still shining on his head as the sun was just above his head. The snail thought that with so much sun falling on his head, his mind would be disturbed and soon the Buddha's meditation would be broken. And without thinking for the second time, the snail fell straight on Buddha's head. The touch of her wet body where the snail was sitting cooled the smooth and soft skin of Buddha's head. Seeing the first snail, the other snails also fell on the head of the meditating Buddha and created a cool covering over the whole head of the Buddha. The cool, damp bodies of a total of 108 snails help to maintain the Buddha's meditation for an extra few hours. Then the snails dried up and died.
When Buddha got up in the evening to meditate, snails fell from his head to the ground, and he realized that he had a lining of 108 snails on his head. These snails gave their lives to make the Buddha's path to enlightenment smooth and unobstructed. Since the snails gave their lives for the Buddha, they are honored as martyrs and snails are painted like 108 rings on the Buddha statue to remind them of their sacrifice.

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