India, May 8 -- By Sadhguru - Founder, Isha Foundation

A person who grows on the spiritual path cannot ignore Gautama because his presence has become so dominant. In his own lifetime, he had forty thousand monks who went out to spread the spiritual process. In his own silent way, he changed the world forever. He has been one of the greatest spiritual waves on the planet.

Buddha Poornima has always been significant in the yogic culture and was always a very auspicious day in any spiritual aspirant's life, but today, in commemoration of Gautama Buddha we named it after him. On that full moon evening over 2,500 years ago, a man blossomed into a being.

Though people generally associate the word Buddha with Gautama, he is not the only Buddh...