There was evidently coming over him that revulsion that would make him look upon death as the goal of his desires, as happiness.

Hitherto each individual desire, aroused by suffering or privation, such as hunger, fatigue, thirst, had been satisfied by some bodily function giving pleasure.

But now no physical craving or suffering received relief, and the effort to relieve them only caused fresh suffering.

And so all desires were merged in one--the desire to be rid of all his sufferings and their source, the body.