WORLD RELIGIONS

Detailed explanation-1: -Prince Siddhartha’s father wanted his son to be a great and powerful ruler. The king was worried about the Brahmins’ predictions. If the prince saw the world’s suffering, he might ignore his royal duties to seek a spiritual path.

Detailed explanation-2: -His father, fearing he would become the latter if he were exposed to the suffering of the world, protected him from seeing or experiencing anything unpleasant or upsetting for the first 29 years of his life.

Detailed explanation-3: -Siddhartha’s father loved him, but he let him go, let him find his own way, walk his own path. Siddhartha only now understands the depth of parental love, and he surely regrets the sorrow his father must have felt in never knowing what became of his son.

Detailed explanation-4: -His father was king Śuddhodana, leader of the Shakya clan in what was the growing state of Kosala, and his mother was queen Maya. According to Buddhist legends, the baby exhibited the marks of a great man. A prophecy indicated that, if the child stayed at home, he was destined to become a world ruler.