Question

Why did Siddhartha renounce the world?

Answer 1

1. When Siddartha came across an old man abandoned by his relatives, a sick man crying with pain, a dead man surrounded by a weeping relatives he was deeply moved.
2. He also saw an ascetic who had renounced the world and found no signs of sorrows.
3. These ‘Four Great Sights’ prompted him to renounce the world.
4. At the age of 30, he went into the forest in search of truth. He sat under a peepal tree for several days until he attained enlightenment.
5. The place where he attained enlightenment ‘Mahabodhi Temple’ still exists in Bodh Gaya (Bihar).