The senses are an important gateway to receiving information about the world around us. However, in Indian culture, various forms of seeing such as gazing, glances, darshan were not only used to receive information but were often used to communicate with each other without speaking. Hence, sight has had a significant position in all major Indian religions. In Buddhism, the order of the senses is as follows: sight, hearing, smells, taste and touch. (McHugh, The Senses). For Buddhists, sight is the sense that allows us to experience objects at maximum distance. For example, you may see a river that you cannot hear, taste, smell, or touch. Therefore, according to Buddhism, sight is the most significant sense among all the other senses (McHugh, The Senses). Here in this excerpt from “The Life of Buddha,” the suffering and pain resulting from the sight of a dead body plays a significant role in making Prince Siddhartha (Gautama Buddha) realize the suffering and misery that exists in the world. It makes his mind dejected and forces him to contemplate the higher purpose of life so as to escape this samsara – cycle of rebirth and new death. According to Buddhists, the four visions: old man, sick man, dead corpse and the ascetic were specific observations that made Prince Siddhartha understand the suffering that existed in this world and separated him from all worldly pleasures to become "The Enlightened One". Because of the predictions that accompanied the birth of Prince Siddhartha – that he would become a world leader or great holy man – his father, King Shudhdhona, tried to protect his son from the world's most distressing features for 29 years. But dissatisfaction grew in Prince Siddhartha and so he asked the king... half of the paper... and this poem could be to make the reader empathize with the suffering he sees in the world and try to find a way to get around it by reducing it. This passage teaches us that life contains suffering and the suffering is due to earthly objects since the people who cared for the deceased were fond of him and this made them suffer. The only way out of this suffering and samsara is nirvana and this can be achieved by following the Buddha's eightfold path: right view, right intention; right speech, right action, right livelihood; right effort, right awareness, right concentration (McHugh). All in all, the very sight of death and the dead person, made Gautama Buddha understand that "Life contains suffering" and that it was only through the sense of sight that he was able to extract four noble truths from Four Viewpoints in Buddhism . So meaning plays an important role in Indian religion.