Queen Mahamaya dreams an elephant enters her womb, and delivers her baby, Siddhartha Gautama, painlessly. He proclaims his exaltation!
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Astrologers predict that Gautama would become a major king or great monk.
I do meditate well, I go into levitation! I am unbeatable in martial arts. Maybe in the future I can convince him to let me to take the chariot
Son, I want you to become a great king! You will take no part in religious duties.
King Suddhona
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a monk demonstrating the serenity of renunciation of life
During Gautama's journey along the countryside, he sees four banished influences. Regardless of his father's attempt to hide all old, sick people, or anything that might provoke his spiritual gifts, the devas of Hindu mythology, the gods took part in his life.
an old man on the verge of death
a man with a disfiguring disease
a funeral for a corpse
My luxurious life will only lead in destruction and unhappiness...
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I am sick of this life of comfort and of carnal pleasures! I am thirty years old! I will abandon my wife and infant goodby!
I am going to cut off my hair!
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Siddhartha Gautama
Gautama cuts of his beautiful long hair and seeks for enlightenment.
The god of evil desire tries to tempt Gautama to interrupt his concentration but other gods rejoiced as Gautama was at critical state.
After seven years of no enlightenment, I will let this end in death or success. I will eat a meal rice and I will sit under a fig tree and try to get enlightenment or die of starvation
Morning comes and he achieves enlightenment! He becomes known as the Buddha, or awakened one and becomes worshipped along with the tree.
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I just ate pork as one of the offerings, I think it was spoiled... ahhh *dies*
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