Reading Notes Part A- First Encounter

 The Life of Buddha by Andre Ferdinand Herold (1922).

First Encounter

This story depicts the events of the Prince, Siddhartha's first experience with the gods and old age. Upon knowing what beauty the world may hold his father sent him off in a chariot. All the young and beautiful people were the only ones allowed to fill the streets. The gods became jealous and sent down an old man in his path. Upon seeing this old man the prince had many questions. he asked his driver if this would be his fate one day too. The driver was confused by the gods and responded with, "That which mars beauty, which ruins vigor, which causes sorrow and kills pleasure, that which weakens the memory and destroys the senses is old age. It has seized this man and broken him. He, too, was once a child, nursing at his mother's breast; he, too, once crawled upon the floor; he grew, he was young, he had strength and beauty; then he reached the twilight of his years, and now you see him, the ruin that is old age."Knowing his fate would be similar he ordered the driver to return home. He returned home but no where could he find peace. He just wandered his halls murmuring, "Old age, oh, old age!" and in his heart there was no longer any joy.



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