Ven.Revatha Thero
Buddha did not attach any importance to religious rituals. The reason is he felt that it was more important to ensure that the five sense organs were pure to begin with. Buddha sought to find out why the mind gets disturbed. He could not bear to see anyone suffering. He was deeply grieved at the sight of persons afflicted with old age. He was intrigued at the sight of a dead body.
None of these natural happenings gave him peace of mind. He undertook many spiritual exercises to find out what transcended these natural phenomenon. Failing to find the answers by these exercises he approached many great elders but none could give him satisfactory answers. Ultimately he reached Gaya and sat under a banyan tree to meditate on the problems that worried him.
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