WORLD RELIGIONS

Detailed explanation-1: -After defeating the forces of the demon Mara, Siddhartha reached enlightenment (1982.233) and became a Buddha (“enlightened one”) at the age of thirty-five. The Buddha continued to sit after his enlightenment, meditating beneath the tree and then standing beside it for a number of weeks.

Detailed explanation-2: -He spent the rest of his life travelling and teaching people. Was this answer helpful?

Detailed explanation-3: -Meditation is the practice of sitting still and quieting one’s mind, with the hope of finding spiritual truths about life and death. Siddhartha sat under the bodhi tree at Bodh Gaya and meditated all night. Triumphing over Mara, the evil demon of desire, Siddhartha reached nirvana, or enlightenment.