the Four this legend, as he approached his thirtieth birthday, Gautama found him in the grips of a very painful struggle between his attachment to his "home with everything his family meant to him, and his attraction to the "home less" religious life, with its spiritual quest. This crisis was said to have been by Four Sights. It seems that one day while on a chariot ride, l passed beyond the area around his home that was secured by father from anything upsetting. It is said that for first time a decrepit old man When he asked his charioteer about this person's sad condition, the chario teer answered that the ills of old age are the fate of all people. Returning to the palace, Gautama fell into melancholy and could no longer find any en in the pleasures of his princely life