The answer was that death is not the end, and should he embrace that precept, he would be known as "The closest man to god". Seeing pain and death as reflected in the Ganges gives the boy Shaka enough despair, if not a crisis of faith.īuddha replies that life comes with stages and that as there is suffering there is also pain, Shaka asks then, what is the purpose of life if, in the end death takes it all. Shaka went daily to meditate and pray, Buddha finally answers him and notes that for someone whose life has just begun, he had been unusually sensitive to sufferings and mortality of human life. Even as a child in India, Shaka was precocious and communed with Buddha himself, a scene recounted in the flashbacks moments before Shaka's death in the Twin Sala's Garden. As a Bodhisattva, and endowed with the most powerful cosmos of all the saints, Shaka well deserves his reputation as the man closest to God. Shaka alone of all saints occupies the rarefied spot between God and man, but living between two worlds has its blessings as well as curses. He is supposed to be Buddha's reincarnation. He is referred to many times on the story as the "the man who is almost a god" due to his immense power and is also considered the only Gold Saint that has full control over the Araya Shiki ( 8th sense). As the guardian of the Temple of Virgo along the path of Sanctuary, Shaka has played a pivotal role chiefly in the battle between Athena and the Pope in the Sanctuary arc, and also in the Hades arc. Shaka is one of the twelve Gold Saints and the reincarnation of Buddha. 2.9 Saint Seiya (1986), chapter III: HadesĪlthough Gemini Saga and Leo Aiolia were the first Gold Saints introduced by Masami Kurumada in his manga, Virgo Shaka was the first one he showed fully revealing his status as Gold Saint and wearing his Gold Cloth, in the chapter 18, contained in vol.2.8 Legend of Crimson Youth and Warriors of the Final Holy Battle.2.7 Saint Seiya (1986), chapter II: Poseidon. 2.3 Saint Seiya (1986), chapter I: the Sanctuary.
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