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The three forms of suffering that Siddhartha encountered were
A
aging, greed, and health.
B
sickness, knowledge, and aging.
C
aging, sickness, and death.
D
death, persecution, and sickness.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -sickness, knowledge, and aging.

Detailed explanation-2: -Three obvious kinds of suffering correspond to the first three sights the Buddha saw on his first journey outside his palace: old age, sickness and death.

Detailed explanation-3: -Siddhartha hopes the Samanas’ asceticism will help him break free of the cycle of time that was so binding in his father’s world, but asceticism succeeds only in revealing the second of Buddha’s Four Noble Truths: The cause of suffering is the craving for something that can never be satisfied.

Detailed explanation-4: -The suffering of suffering. This is the one we’re all familiar with: the pain of birth, old age, sickness, and death, as the Buddha described it. The suffering of change. When you do get what you want, you can’t hold onto it. All-pervasive suffering. 04-Jun-2017

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