After his first attempt was not successful in finding answers, he tried a new second idea which was for him to become an ascetic. Joined by five other monks, Gautama began a long six years of practicing severe asceticism in which he searched for any means that were unpleasant or caused him harm to fully understand his question of the miseries of life. Despite this six-year process of some of the most severely recorded asceticism in history which included sitting in awkward and painful positions for hours and starvation that led him to being so thin that he could feel his backbone when he touched his stomach, Gautama did not find the answers and enlightenment that he was searching for and had to find another way in which he could truly understand the reasons for suffering and misery in the human
After his first attempt was not successful in finding answers, he tried a new second idea which was for him to become an ascetic. Joined by five other monks, Gautama began a long six years of practicing severe asceticism in which he searched for any means that were unpleasant or caused him harm to fully understand his question of the miseries of life. Despite this six-year process of some of the most severely recorded asceticism in history which included sitting in awkward and painful positions for hours and starvation that led him to being so thin that he could feel his backbone when he touched his stomach, Gautama did not find the answers and enlightenment that he was searching for and had to find another way in which he could truly understand the reasons for suffering and misery in the human