I got the message, but it felt shallow. The main character seemed already sure of what to do to reach his enlightenment from the get-go. Born to a good family, everyone loves and adores him, everything he needs just seems to fall in his lap. He never really deals with anything that really tests him, nothing to make me think he knows what suffering is. The only hardships he ever really had were self-imposed and it just makes his enlightenment feel cheap.
Also doesn't help that there's a thirty year gap in his life.