he video The Life of the Buddha is informative. One of the most important information provided is when Siddhartha decided to leave everything (family and throne) behind in order to find answers to his questions. The emperor Tilaurakot, Siddhartha’s father, aware Maya’s vision and what his son represented to the religious world, tried to pursue his son into the military lifestyle because he wanted his son to be his successor. During Siddhartha’s childhood, the emperor depicted a perfect world where suffering, aging, sickness, and begging were hidden. We will never know if Siddhartha would have been able to obtain nirvana sooner if he would have grown up is a poor family or how the king would have reacted knowing there was someone more powerful
