I Don't understand, I am not one of those Saints...!!!

Why did Lord Buddha & Lord Mahavira leave their respective kingdom? Can’t they get what they wanted to achieve in life while becoming kings of their respective kingdoms of ‘Lumbini’ & 'Vaishali'.

Buddha and Mahavira both belonged to royal family in their time. They had everything in life. All luxuries, comforts and best of food served on table from the many servants. They could wish and could found the same for them. The life which they had is dream for many of us. Leaving that type of life and taking ‘sanyas’, leaving beautiful wife and children by Buddha, getting hurt for the pain of unknown is the question for many. 

They were not born as Lord Buddha and Lord Mahavira but as Prince Siddhartha & Prince Vardhmana. If they would have stayed they could be next kings after their respective fathers. The place was good, the kingdom was good enough to fulfill their desires but despite that they did not stay with such temptation. The reason for leaving their respective kingdom come from their urge for learning and knowing the emotions and feelings of people who lived in normal circumstances w/o having comforts and luxuries in life. It was not running from kingdom rather avoiding comforts and luxuries to become “self-less” from “being self”. They had not discarded them but accepted the life in normal mode- "LIVE NORMAL". They had left other things to live and experienced the life of a human being in normal circumstances. It helped them to understand and listen their inner voice. The inner voice which always tells us a difference between right-or-wrong could not be felt if it becomes the slave of comforts and luxuries. It is like avoiding weaknesses which were emerging by living in such mode otherwise the inner voice either stops speaking or we stop hearing on the pretext of ‘chalta hai’ attitude then It becomes a choice of greedy mind for fulfilling the lust where we feel that it is necessary to do that.

 If you read the mind of guilty, he would give hundreds of examples for doing the crime. It may include of justification, necessity and lure from doing so but can we support that?

Remember living away from comforts and luxuries was not necessary to for sacrifice but to know self and soul of others.

We all have choices like this in our life where we all have to choose between the one. Unfortunately the way which seems easy, comfortable and free from obstruction becomes the chosen path for walk and the path which seems harsh, stony and with thorns is avoided by all of us. That is leading one to easy toner of life. If Lord Buddha and Lord Mahavira had chosen the easy path, they would have remember as the some kings of small kingdom situated in  some distant place but as they chose the harsh way to walk they become what we know them as today.

Every life asks real questions from every one (Remember no one is left/ ignored by our creator)  only a few try to answer by understanding themselves. Avoiding answering them make them some king :) of some place for some time and answering them make us undisputed king :))  of all places in all time. 

Hear the inner voice.........That will make the difference to us.