Enlightenment

533-528 BC The Bodhisattva (=future Buddha), who once lived in luxury, becomes a penniless and homeless wanderer. He leads a life of self-mortification and spiritual study, becomes first a disciple of several then famous Brahman teachers, and later attracts his own disciples. After a long and exhausting period of searching and self-mortification, he finally becomes disillusioned with the Indian caste system, Hindu asceticism, and the religious doctrines of his time. He gives up the ascetic life and loses all of his disciples as a result. Nevertheless, he continues his search for truth through the practice of meditation

On April/May 528 BC - Enlightenment, While meditating under a Bodhi tree in Bodh-Gaya, south of Gaya in the state of Bihar, India, the Bodhisattva experiences the Great Enlightenment, which reveals to him the way of salvation from suffering. Buddha shows great attraction towards Enlightenment and people belong to buddhism also attract towards Enlightenment. He spends seven weeks meditating in the vicinity of the site of the Bodhi tree where his Enlightenment flourish and his Enlightenment attains the status of a fully realised Buddha at the age of 35