Spiritual Growth In Siddhartha Guatama

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As children grows up, they have dreams of becoming the next big basketball player, someone rich, or even the next president. Are children still having dreams like Siddhartha Guatama that is willing to help others spiritually, or even motivate to draw closer to their divine creator? With a young child with big dreams such as Siddhartha, the world would have less crimes and more reason to seek guidance and direction in the right way. The dreams and visions that Siddhartha had reasons for the Hindu faith to draw closer to his four sights on how to live freely, causing those that followed him seek more religious on how to live and lastly reflect on their spiritual growth in their Hinduism belief.

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