Gautam Buddha

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Gautam Buddha is the founder of Buddhism. He taught the lesson of truth and non-violence.

Gautam Buddha’s real name was Siddhartha Gautam. He was the son of King Shuddodhan. He was born in Kapil Vastu, Lumbini, Nepal. His mother died after 7th day of his berth.

He was full of compassion. There is one story famous about him. When his step brother hurt one bird with his arrow , Gautam got disappointed and he served bird. He never rule his subjects but he used to live with the pain of his subjects and used to help anyhow. He has been given every kind of luxury but Siddhartha was never interested in these fake things.

Siddhartha learnt knowledge from Vishwamitra and he learnt Vedas , Upanishads and also learn art of fighting. He got married with yashodhara and he had son Rahul. Siddhartha father provided him all kind of luxury so that he got lost in those fake things but one day Siddhartha went for walk he saw an old man , this made him very sad. Next time he saw an bier and some people were weeping behind that bier. After watching problems in world he got fed up with luxury. One day he saw a saint and he seems to be satisfied and he was singing song for God and after watching this Siddhartha feels joy. So he left his wife and his son and went out for becoming a saint.

 



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