To stop the prince from thinking about unhappiness or leaving home, King Suddhodana built a pleasure palace for Siddhattha and Yasodhara. Dancers and singers were asked to entertain them, and only healthy and young people were allowed into the palace and the palace garden. So Siddhattha did not know that everybody gets sick, grows old and will die. But in spite of the King's efforts, the prince was not happy. He wanted to know how people lived outside the palace walls.