Batayan

Batayan - Hridaypur is now online.

The birth of prince Siddhartha over 2545 years ago to King Suddhodhana, the ruler of Kapilawastu in Northern India was a significant event in the history of mankind, in spite of the fact that the father brought up the young prince with luxurious pampering and amidst surroundings away from all cares and affections of world, three ominous sights, one after the other- old age, disease and death-convinced the prince of the futility of worldly pleasure.

At the age of 21 years, he resolved to seek for the true knowledge which could end misery. He then left the royal palace leaving his wife, only child and the family and set himself to a long tireleass quest for salvation, not merely for himself but for the entire mankind along with a beggars bowl in his hand. Siddhartha wandered about as an ascetic seeking guidance from the then religious leaders. But nothing could satisfy him. At Uruwela near Gaya, he practiced the most frigid austerities, but the Truth still eluded him . He realized that self-mortification was not the means to Enlightenment.