ANALYSIS OF GRATITUDE TO PARENTS IN SONA-NANTA JATAKA

Abstract

Abstract

         Sona-Nanta Jataka is another Jataka that aims to instill the virtue of gratitude in those who are children especially in today's aging society which there are quite some parents and grandparents that has been abandoned by children. Therefore, instilling gratitude for the children is very important and necessary. The 2 purposes of this article are; to analyze the contents of Sona-Nanta’s gratitude, and to analyze the gratitude of Sonadabos (Sona Ascetic) and Nantadabos (Nanta Ascetic) in a social way.

          The study found that the contents of gratitude in Sona-Nanta Jataka consists of 4 things: 1) the gratitude of monks, i.e. the contents of the Jataka that is the beginning of this Jataka, 2) help arranging the suitable places for parents, i.e. building an accommodation and keep it clean always, 3) help preparing water for parent’s consumption, such as preparing drinking water, tooth brush, washing water in the morning. And boil warm water to bathe in the evening, and 4) help providing fruit for consumption, i.e. providing delicious fruit to consume enough each day. As for the gratitude’s analysis of Sonadabos and Nantadabos in the social aspect, it was found that they show gratitude in the society are 3 things: 1) the monks raise their parents, i.e. the Lord Buddha allows the monks to take care of their mothers, 2) remaking the merits of parents according to the 6 directions, namely Sonadabos and Nantadabos rewarded the patronage of parents in 5 ways, and 3) Apichatabutr (a son who turns out to be better than his parents), namely as Sonadabos and Nandadabos, has Apinya 5 (higher knowledge).