I have found a very amusing dialogue of Buddha and another person called Beranja. It is about the challenge against the claim of Buddha's supremacy of highest reverence. Briefly, the dialogue was like this;
Beranja asked Buddha why he didn't rise up from seat seeing elders, old aged and revered persons since he was still far younger than them. Buddha's first reply was that he did not see anyone in this world or other worlds who would be in a position to be able to bear his respect. if he saluted them, or rose up from his seat to show respect to them, then their heads would split in pieces!
Though the above reply seems utterly ridiculous, the second reply which Buddha gave after a while is a little sensible. Say, a hen laid ten or twelve eggs. Now a chicken breaks out of the eggshell, and then other chickens break out too following the first one. Now what would you consider the first one? Eldest or youngest? Obviously the first one is the eldest. So is the Buddha. He is the one who first broke out the shell of ignorance and showed the way to others too. That's why he is the eldest one, the greatest one in this world and all other worlds.
I am not in a position to believe that there are other worlds. The claim may be true or untrue, I don't care. Buddha also showed the way of meditation, the process to achieve the ability to see and realize in this very life that there are other worlds, there are past lives, there are heaven and hell, and all other supernatural powers. Nonetheless, I don't want to tread that way, untill I am sure about what I am doing:)
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