@RusA #9858840 BTW... I'm also not a fans of other semit religions (islam and Jew), even that Buddha, after i read that Sindharta Gautama left his wife, and kids for that stupid "enlighment
It's quite strange to me, too, since in Christianity, a married man is not allowed to become a monk (the closest thing we have to the Hindu ascetics). He can became an "oblate", which means he joins a religious order and takes certain vows, but still maintains his social obligations with his family and community. These days, men who abandon their families in order to live a better life, more usually do it, not because they're looking for God, but because they're looking for better woman. In Hinduism, older men who have established careers and raised families will abandon both to become ascetics, but usually not until their kids are grown and can take care of their mother. Siddhartha Gautama was unusually young to be doing that, though.
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@RusA #9858840
BTW... I'm also not a fans of other semit religions (islam and Jew), even that Buddha, after i read that Sindharta Gautama left his wife, and kids for that stupid "enlighment
It's quite strange to me, too, since in Christianity, a married man is not allowed to become a monk (the closest thing we have to the Hindu ascetics). He can became an "oblate", which means he joins a religious order and takes certain vows, but still maintains his social obligations with his family and community. These days, men who abandon their families in order to live a better life, more usually do it, not because they're looking for God, but because they're looking for better woman.