Siddhartha's Quest For Enlightenment Summary

Siddhartha’s Quest For Enlightenment
Rational
The journey of Prince Siddhartha Gautama of the Sakhyan Empire, which covered most of Northern India and also parts of neighboring countries such as Nepal, is brought forward through this report. This quest like most conventional quests or journeys is about the path to a place unknown to mankind. Only this journey was to discover the path to freedom. Physically man’s freedom is limited to this world. After death when his life ends so does his freedom. Siddhartha’s quest was to find eternal freedom, freedom from all forms of pain and misery that man has to encounter regardless of his wealth or position in society. His quest was to follow an unknown path -spiritual freedom.
Method
During the
The philosophy of Buddhism as taught by Siddhartha Gautama shows how a man should live his life free from guilt, anger, revenge and aspects of life as such. These little aspects are the cause of today’s destruction of man – spiritually and physically. Buddhism teaches us to live a sin free life, which is what the world needs
He later called this path “the middle way” as it avoids the extremes of self-indulgence and self-mortification. It is said in inscriptions that he sat down underneath a tree –later called “Bodhi tree” making a firm resolution that he would rise from his seat only when he had achieved his goal. He entered into deep and deeper stages of meditation. Reaching the climax in the knowledge of suffering, its cause, its ending and the path leading to its ending what he later taught as the “four noble truths”, in Sanskrit known as “Sowan, Sakurdagami, Anaghami and Arahat” for which the literal English translation would