Buddha Purnima!

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Today is the auspicious day of Buddha Purnima! Buddha Purnima is celebrated every year in the month of April/May on a full moon day to mark the birth anniversary of Gautam Buddha. Gautam Buddha (Siddharth Gautam) was a great monk born to King Suddhodana and his wife Maya. Before Buddha entered this world, many sages predicted that he would grow up to become a great monk or a great ruler. In the fear that Buddha would become a monk and leave home, King Suddhodana never allowed his son to go outside the palace until he was 29 years old! As soon as he was allowed to leave the palace, Gautam Buddha saw four things- a dead body, a sick person, an old man and a sage. By seeing the sage, he got inspired to find the main cause of sadness in human life. Sometime after this, he left the palace to achieve enlightenment. He meditated under a Bodhi tree for 49 weeks when he finally got enlightenment at 35 years of age. He left this world 45 years after, at the age of 80. 

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