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Two Thousand Five Hundred years ago Prince Siddhartha Gautama was born to King Suddhodan and Queen Mayadevi in Lumbini garden. As soon as he was born he instantly walked seven steps and raised his right hand, pointed a finger to the sky and declared that he is the great leader of the whole Universe. The King was told by a sage that if the Prince stays in the place as a householder, he would be the great emperor of the world, but that if he leaves the palace, he will become someone who is spiritual and capable of helping many beings. King Suddhodana arranged for all luxuries of that time to be surrounding the prince, so that he would not have any interest. However, despite these distractions, one day Siddartha Gautama desired to go out from the Place and asked Chandak the charioteer to take him out from the palace. On the way, he saw an old man, a sick man, a corpse and a monk. Since that incident, the Prince was very upset and one night he decided to leave the palace and seek the solution to his mental unrest as to why beings have to undergo suffering. One night he left the place with only charioteer Chandak into the forest, in order to find the answer to this spiritual quest for the benefit of all beings. He practiced ascetic meditation very hard in the forest without eating single grain for several years but he couldn’t get any realization. He understood that it would not lead him to enlightenment, so he gave up the practice of asceticism, he bathed in the river Niranjana and accepted rice pudding from a girl called Sujata, who found him unconscious from undereating. After eating the food, he meditated under the bodhi tree. Mara the devil came to attack the Siddartha Gautama to destroy his meditation but Mara couldn’t do any harm to the Prince. Siddartha finally achieved enlightenment. From Devaloka Gods and Goddesses, everyone worshipped the Buddha. Flowers rained from the sky, King of the Gods Indra raised parasol and the umbrella to the Buddha, God Shiva played the Damaru (hand drum), god Vishnu blew the conch horn, Nagaraja the flags, Agni Devi the God of fire lit the incense, the God of the wind raised the flags, Yamaraja the god of death move the beads on the rosary (Japa mala), Kubera the god of wealth made rain of jewels, Sarswati the goddess of the wisdom played the Vina, Bramha the god of creator sweept the way for Buddha and they took procession to Lumbini.