WORLD RELIGIONS

Detailed explanation-1: -Wishing his driver farewell, Siddhartha began his life as an ascetic. Siddhartha met other ascetics who shared his spiritual goals. Like him, they aimed to understand the nature of the world and believed that they could reach enlightenment through meditation.

Detailed explanation-2: -A few days after the first sermon, the Buddha set forth the doctrine of no-self (anatman), at which point the five ascetics became arhats, those who have achieved liberation from rebirth and will enter nirvana upon death. They became the first members of the sangha, the community of monks.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Buddha’s ascetic life The Buddha said that he would do so in order to attempt to achieve supreme knowledge. He sat under a bodhi tree and he slowly starved and grew exhausted. This period of self-denial meant he deprived himself of food, shelter and clothes.