WORLD RELIGIONS

Detailed explanation-1: -When he was 29 years old, legend dictates, he was jolted out of his idleness by the “Four Signs”: he saw in succession an old man, a sick person, a corpse being carried to cremation, and a monk in meditation beneath a tree. He began to think about old age, disease, and death and decided to follow the way of the monk.

Detailed explanation-2: -Analysis: Samsara. Siddhartha has learned that asceticism is a dead end in his search for enlightenment, and he now learns that the same holds true for sensory indulgence-neither path, alone, leads to enlightenment, and the mastery of either asceticism or sensuality inevitably results in enslavement.