The Ascetic Lifeįor the next six years, Siddhartha lived an ascetic life, studying and meditating using the words of various religious teachers as his guide.
Siddhartha was overcome by these sights, and the next day, at age 29, he left his kingdom, his wife and his son to follow a more spiritual path, determined to find a way to relieve the universal suffering that he now understood to be one of the defining traits of humanity.
