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 he King found the Prince a beautiful
wife with whom the Prince subsequently had a son. All the guards
at the palace, and especially the Prince's driver, were under
strict instruction by the King that wherever his son went, he
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However, the story goes, one day Siddhartha left the palace unbeknown to the guards and saw the real life experiences of others' suffering - the sickness, aging and death, from which his cossetted royal life had protected him. Overcome with this puzzle of life, he set out from the palace to find the answers to the questions of why one suffers, why one gets sick, why one eventually dies. In his search, he tried all kinds of practices of his time, including ascetic austerity, even fasting for six years, and yet he still found no answer. |
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