A religious person strives to achieve spiritual enlightenment. To do this, he constantly works on himself, freeing his mind from sinful thoughts and doing noble deeds. The main goal in enlightenment is to know the truth and the state of peace.
Buddha's Path to Spiritual Enlightenment
The main spiritual mentor among the Buddhists is Gautama Siddhartha - a man who exchanged a carefree life in a luxurious palace for beggarly wanderings in search of truth.
The thirty-year-old monk chose the pseudonym Buddha, which means enlightened and awakened. He sought to achieve a state of enlightenment of consciousness, because he could not come to terms with the difficulties and trials that fall to the lot of a simple person. Buddha could not accept the fact that every person in his life encounters diseases, grows old over time, and most importantly, he has to die.
After he left a secure and comfortable life, Buddha deliberately practiced ascetic practices for a long time, exhausting himself with hunger and cold. However, he could not achieve humility and peace of mind. When Gautama nearly died of exhaustion (the locals saved him miraculously), he realized the first truth. It lies in the fact that you should not rush to extremes: in everything you must adhere to the principle of the golden mean.
The name Siddhartha, which his parents gave him, means "attaining the goal." Indeed, Gautama once decided that he would not budge until he reached enlightenment.
He settled down under a huge tree, and after a few days of calm contemplation of the surrounding nature, a state of enlightenment came to him. Before his eyes, the creation and structure of the Universe proceeded, the secrets and laws of human existence were revealed. After the Buddha became a wise man, he began to preach a new religion, and he had many followers.
