Prince Siddhartha Gautama was deeply pained by the sufferings he saw around him and left the house to seek the reality of life. Having wandered for seven years, he finally sat under a Peepal tree to meditate till he received enlightenment. Wisdom of the law that governs the cycle of birth and death dawned on him and ‘The Buddha' began to share it with the world to relieve the mortals of their sufferings.