“These sights so moved him that he at once went out into the world to seek enlightenment.” What were the sights that moved ‘him’?

Prince Siddhartha felt very upset to see so much grief and sorrow in the world. The sights of a sick man, an aged man, a funeral procession and a monk begging for alms so moved him that he decided to renounce the world to seek enlightenment.

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