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Second part, Chapter five, dedicated
to Wilhelm Gundert, my cousin in Japan.

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Chapter five Kamala sad Arthur learned something
new on every step of his path,

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for the world was transformed and his
heart was enchanted. He saw the

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sun rising over the mountains with their
forests, and setting over the distant beach

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with its palm trees. At night. He saw the stars in the sky

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in their fixed positions, and the
crescent of the moon floating like a boat

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in the blue. He saw trees, stars, animals, clouds, rainbows,

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rocks, herbs, flowers, stream
and river, the glistening dew in

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the bushes in the morning, distant
high mountains which were blue and pale.

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Birds sang, and bees wind silverishly
blue through the rice field. All of

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this, a thousandfold and colorful had
always been there, always. The sun

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and the moon had shone always,
the rivers had roared, and the bees

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had buzzed. But in former times, all of this had been nothing more

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to Siddhartha than a fleeting, deceptive
veil before his eyes, looked upon in

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distrust, destined to be penetrated and
destroyed by thought, since it was not

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the essential existence, Since this essence
lay beyond, on the other side of

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the visible. But now his liberated
eyes stayed on this side. He saw

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and became aware of the visible,
sought to be at home in this world,

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did not seek for the true essence, did not aim at a world

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beyond. Beautiful was this world,
looking at it thus without searching, thus

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simply, thus childlike. Beautiful were
the moon and the stars. Beautiful was

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the stream and the banks, the
forest and the rocks, the goat and

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the gold beetle, the flower and
the butterfly. Beautiful and lovely. It

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was thus to walk through the world
thus childlike, thus awoken, thus open

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to what is near, thus without
distrust. Differently, the sun burnt the

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head, differently, the shade of
the forest cooled him down. Differently,

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the stream and the cistern, the
pumpkin and the banana tasted short. Were

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the days short, the nights.
Every hour sped away like a sail on

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the sea. And under the sail
was a ship of treasures, full of

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joy. Said Arthur. Saw a
group of apes moving through the high canopy

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of the forest, high in the
branches, and heard their savage, greedy

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song. Sid Arthur saw a male
sheep following a female one and mating with

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her. In a lake of reeds, he saw the pike hungrily hunting for

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its dinner, propelling themselves away from
it in fear. Wriggling and sparkling.

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The young fish jumped in droves out
of the water. The scent of strength

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and passion came forcefully out of the
hasty eddies of the water, which the

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pike stirred up, impetuously hunting.
All of this had always existed, and

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he had not seen it. He
had not been with it. Now he

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was with it. He was part
of it. Light and shadow ran through

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his eyes, stars and moon ran
through his heart. On the way,

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SidD Arthur also remembered everything he had
experienced in the garden Jetavana, the teaching

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he had heard there, the divine
Buddha, the farewell to Govinda, the

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conversation with the Exalted One. Again
he remembered his own words. He had

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spoken to the Exalted One, every
word, and with astonishment he became aware

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of the fact that there he had
said things which he had not really known

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yet at this time. What he
had said to Gautama, his the Buddha's

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treasure and secret, was not the
teaching, but the unexpressible and not teachable,

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which he had experienced in the hour
of its enlightenment. It was nothing

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but this very thing what he now
began to experience. Now he had to

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experience his self. It is true
that he had already known for a long

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time that his self was Utman in
its essence, bearing the same eternal characteristics

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as Brahman. But never had he
really found this self, because he had

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wanted to capture it in the net
of thought, with the body definitely not

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being the self and not the spectacle
of the senses. So it also was

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not the thought, not the rational
mind, not the learned wisdom, not

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the learned ability to draw conclusions and
to develop previous thoughts into new ones.

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No, this world of thought was
also still on this side, and nothing

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could be achieved by the random self
of the senses if the random self of

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the thoughts and learned knowledge was fattened. On the other hand, both the

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thoughts as well as the senses were
pretty things. The ultimate meaning was hidden

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behind both of them. Both had
to be listened to, both had to

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be played with. Both, neither
had to be scorned nor overestimated from both.

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The secret voices of the innermost truth
had to be attentively perceived. He

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wanted to strive for nothing except for
what the voice commanded him to strive for,

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dwell on nothing except where the voice
would advise him to do so.

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Why had Gautama at that time,
in the hour of all hours, sat

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down under the bow tree where the
enlightenment hit him? He had heard a

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voice, a voice in his own
heart, which had commanded him to seek

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rest under this tree. And he
had neither preferred self castigation, offerings,

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ablutions, nor prayer, neither food
nor drink, neither sleep nor dream.

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He had obeyed the voice to obey
like this, not to an external command,

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only to the voice to be ready
like this. This was good,

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This was necessary. Nothing else was
necessary. In the night, when he

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slept in the straw heart of a
ferryman by the river, Siddhartha had a

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dream. Govinda was standing in front
of him, dressed in the yellow robe

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of an ascetic sad was how Govinda
looked like? Sadly, he asked,

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why have you forsaken me? At
this, he embraced Govinda, wrapped his

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arms around him, and as he
was pulling him close to his chest,

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and kissed him. It was not
Govinda anymore, but a woman, and

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a full breast popped out of the
woman's dress, at which Siddhartha lay and

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drank sweetly and strongly tasted the milk
from this breast. It tasted of woman

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and man, of sun, and
forest, of animal and flower, of

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every fruit, of every joyful desire. It intoxicated him and rendered him unconscious.

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When Siddartha woke up, the pale
river shimmered through the door of the

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hut, and in the forest a
dark call of an owl resounded deeply and

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pleasantly. When the day began,
Siddartha asked his host, the Fairyman,

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to get him across the river.
The ferryman got him across the river on

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his bamboo raft. The wide water
shimmered reddishly in the light of the morning.

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This is a beautiful river, he
said to his companion. Yes,

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said the ferryman, a very beautiful
river. I love it more than anything.

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Often I have listened to it.
Often I have looked into its eyes,

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and always I have learned from it. Much can be learned from a

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river. I thank you, my
benefactor, spoke said Arthur, disembarking on

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the other side of the river.
I have no gift I could give you

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for your hospitality, my dear,
and also no payment for your work.

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I am a man without a home, a son of a Brahman and a

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Samana. I did see it,
spoke the ferryman, and I haven't expected

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any payment from you, and no
gifts, which would be the custom for

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guests to bear. You will give
me the gift another time, do you

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think so, asked sid Arthur,
amusedly. Surely this two I have learned

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from the river. Everything is coming
back you too, Samana will come back

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now. Farewell. Let your friendship
be my reward. Commemorate me when you'll

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make your offerings to the gods.
Smiling, they parted. Smiling. Sid

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Arthur was happy about the friendship and
the kindness of the fairyman. He is

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like Govinda, he thought, with
a smile. All I meet on my

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path are like Govinda. All are
thankful, though they are the ones who

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would have a right to receive thanks. All are submissive, All would like

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to be friends, like to obey, think little, like children are all

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people. At about noon, he
came through a village. In front of

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the mud cottages, children were rolling
about in the street were playing with pumpkin

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seeds and seashells, screamed and wrestled, but they all timidly fled from the

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unknown Samana. In the end of
the village, the path led through a

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stream, and by the side of
the stream, a young woman was kneeling

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and washing clothes. When SidD Arthur
greeted her, she lifted her head and

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looked up to him with a smile, so that he saw the white in

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her eyes glistening. He called out
a blessing to her, as is the

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custom among travelers, and asked how
far he still had to go to reach

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the large city. Then she got
up and came to him beautifully. Her

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wet mouth was shimmering in her young
face. She exchanged humorous banter with him,

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asked whether he had eaten already,
and whether it was true that the

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Samanas slept alone in the forest at
night and were not allowed to have any

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women with them. While talking,
she put her left foot on his right

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one and made a movement as a
woman does. Who would want to initiate

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that kind of sexual pleasure with a
man, which the text books call climbing

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a tree? Said Arthur felt his
blood heating up, and since in this

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moment he had to think of his
dream again, he bent slightly down to

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the woman and kissed with his lips
the brown nipple of her breast. Looking

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up, he saw her face smiling, full of lust, and her eyes

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with contracted pupils, begging with desire. Siddartha also felt desire and felt the

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source of his sexuality moving. But
since he had never touched a woman before,

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he hesitated for a moment while his
hands were already prepared to reach out

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for her. And in this moment
he heard, shuddering with awe, the

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voice of his innermost self, and
this voice said no. Then all charms

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disappeared from the young woman's smiling face. He no longer saw anything else but

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the damp glance of a female animal
in heat. Politely, he petted her

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cheek, turned away from her,
and disappeared from the disappointed woman with light

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steps into the bamboo wood. On
this day, he reached the large city

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before the evening and was happy,
for he felt the need to be among

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people. For a long time he
had lived in the forest and the straw

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hut of the fairy man, in
which he had slept that night had been

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the first roof for a long time
he had had over his head before the

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city. In a beautifully fenced grove, the traveler came across a small group

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of servants, both male and female, carrying baskets in their midst Carried by

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four servants in an ornamental sedan chair, sat a woman, the mistress,

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on red pillows under a colorful canopy. Siddartha stopped at the entrance to the

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pleasure garden and watched the parade,
saw the servants, the maids, the

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baskets, saw the sedan chair,
and saw the lady in it, under

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black hair which made to tower high
on her head. He saw a very

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fair, very delicate, very smart
face, a rightly red mouth like a

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freshly cracked fig, eyebrows which were
well tended and painted in a high arch,

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smart and watchful dark eyes, a
clear, tall neck rising from a

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green and golden garment, resting fair
hands, long and thin, with wide

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golden bracelets over the wrists. Sid
Arthur saw how beautiful she was, and

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his heart rejoiced. He bowed deeply
when the sedan chair came closer, and

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straightening up again, he looked at
the fair charming face read for a moment

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in the smart eyes with the high
arcs above, breathed in a slight fragrance

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he did not know. With a
smile, the beautiful woman nodded for a

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moment and disappeared into the grove,
and then the servant as well. Thus

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I am entering this city, said
Arthur thought, with a charming omen.

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He instantly felt drawn into the grove, and he thought about it. And

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only now he became aware of how
the servants and maids had looked at him

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at the entrance, how despicable,
how distrustful, how rejecting. I am

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still a Samana, he thought,
I am still an ascetic and beggar.

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I must not remain like this.
I will not be able to enter the

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grove like this, and he laughed. The next person who came along this

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path, he asked about the grove
and for the name of the woman,

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and was told that this was the
grove of Cumala, the famous Courtizan,

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and that aside from the grove,
she owned a house in the city.

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Then he entered the city. Now
he had a goal. Pursuing his goal,

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he allowed the city to suck him
in, drifted through the flow of

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the streets, stood still on the
squares, rested on the stairs of stone

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by the river. When the evening
came, he made friends with a barber's

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assistant whom he had seen working in
the shade of an arch in a building,

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whom he had found again praying in
a temple of Vishnu, whom he

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had told about stories of Vishnu and
the Lakshmi. Among the boats by the

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river. He slept this night and
early in the morning, before the first

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customers came into his shop, he
had the barber's assistant shave his beard and

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cut his hair, comb his hair
and anoint it with fine oil. Then

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he went to take his bath in
the river. When late in the afternoon,

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beautiful Kamala approached her grove in her
sedan chair, Siddatha was standing at

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the entrance, made a bow and
received the quartzan's greeting. But that servant,

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who walked at the very end of
her train, he motioned to him

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and asked him to inform his mistress
that a young Brahman would wish to talk

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to her. After a while,
the servant returned, asked him who had

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been waiting to follow him, conducted
him who was following him without a word

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into a pavilion where Kamala was lying
on a couch and left him alone with

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her. Weren't you already standing out
there yesterday greeting me, asked Kamala.

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It's true that I've already seen and
greeted you yesterday. And didn't you yesterday

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wear a beard and long hair and
dust in your hair? You have observed,

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well, you have seen everything.
You have seen Siddhatha, the son

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of a Brahman who has left his
home to become a samana, and who

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has been a samana for three years. But now I have left that path

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and came into this city. And
the first one I met, even before

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I had entered the city, was
you to say this, I have come

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to you. Oh Kamala, you
are the first woman whom Siddhartha is not

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addressing with his eyes turned to the
ground. Never again, I want to

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turn my eyes to the ground when
I am coming across a beautiful woman.

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Kamala smiled and played with her fan
of peacock's feathers and asked, and only

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to tell me this. Siddhartha has
come to me to tell you this and

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to thank you for being so beautiful, and if it doesn't displease you,

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Kamala, I would like to ask
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for I know nothing yet of that
art which you have mastered in the highest

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degree. At this, Kamala laughed
aloud. Never before this has happened to

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me, my friend, that a
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wanted to learn from me. Never
before this has happened to me, that

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a samana came to me with long
hair and an old torn loincloth. Many

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young men come to me, and
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But they come in beautiful clothes,
They come in fine shoes, they

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have perfume in their hair and money
in their pouches. This is oh Samana.

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How the young men are like who
come to me, quoth Saddhartha.

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Already I am starting to learn from
you. Even yesterday I was already learning.

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I have already taken off my beard, have combed the hair, have

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oil in my hair. There is
little which is still missing in me,

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Oh excellent one, fine clothes,
fine shoes, money in my pouch.

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You shall know. Sir Datha has
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and he has reached them. How
shouldn't I reach that goal which I

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have set for myself yesterday, to
be your friend and to learn the joys

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of love from you. You'll see
that I'll learn quickly, Kamala. I

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have already learned harder things than what
you're supposed to teach me. And now

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let's get to it. You aren't
satisfied with Sir Dartha as he is with

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oil in his hair, but without
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Laughing, Kamala exclaimed, no,
my dear, he doesn't satisfy me yet.

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Clothes are what he must have,
pretty clothes and shoes, pretty shoes,

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and lots of money in his pouch
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know it now? Samana from the
forest, do you mark my words?

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Yes? I have marked your words, said Arthur exclaimed. How should I

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not mark words which are coming from
such a mouth. Your mouth is like

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a freshly cracked fig. Kamala,
My mouth is red and fresh as well.

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It will be a suitable match for
yours, you'll see. But tell

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me, beautiful Kamala, aren't you
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forest? Who has come to learn
how to make love? Whatever should I

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be afraid of a samana, a
stupid samana from the forest, who is

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coming from the jackals and doesn't even
know yet what women are. Oh,

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he's strong, the Samana, and
he isn't afraid of anything. He could

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force you, beautiful girl, He
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No, Samana, I am not
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or Brahman ever fear someone might come
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his religious devotion and his depth of
thought? No, for they are his

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very own, and he would only
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to give, and to whomever he
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it is precisely like this. It
is also with Kamala and with the pleasures

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of love. Beautiful and red is
Kamala's mouth. But just try to kiss

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it against Kamala's will, and you
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from it, which knows how to
give so many sweet things. You are

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learning easily, said Arthur. Thus
you should also learn this laugh can be

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obtained by begging, buying, receiving
it as a gift, finding it in

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the street, but it cannot be
stolen. In this you have come up

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with the wrong path. No,
it would be a pity if a pretty

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young man like you would want to
tackle it in such a wrong manner.

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Siddartha bowed with a smile. It
would be a pity. Kamala, You

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are so right, it would be
such a great pity. No, I

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shall not lose a single drop of
sweetness from your mouth, nor you from

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mine. So it is settled.
Siddartha will return once he has what he

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still lacks clothes, shoes, money. But speak lovely, Kamala. Couldn't

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you still give me one small advice? An advice? Why? Who wouldn't

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like to give an advice to a
poor, ignorant Samana who is coming from

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the jackals of the forest. Dear
Kamala, thus advise me where I should

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go, that i'll find these three
things most quickly. Friend, many would

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like to know this. You must
do what you've learned and ask for money,

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clothes, and shoes in return.
There is no other way for a

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poor man to obtain money. What
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can think, I can wait,
I can fast, nothing else, nothing,

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but yes, I can also write
poetry. Would you like to give

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me a kiss for a poem?
I would like to If I like your

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poem, what would be its title? Said Arthur spoke, after we had

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thought about it for a moment.
These verses into her shady grove stepped the

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pretty Kamala. At the grove's entrance
stood the brown Samana. Deeply, seeing

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the lotus's blossom, bowed that man, and smiling Kamala thanked. More lovely,

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thought the young man than offerings for
gods. More lovely is offering to

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pretty Kamala. Kamala loudly clapped her
hands so that the golden bracelets clanged.

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Beautiful are your verses, oh brown
Samana, I'm losing nothing when I am

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giving you a kiss for them?
She beckoned him with her eyes. He

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tilted his head so that his face
touched hers, and placed his mouth on

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that mouth, which was like a
freshly cracked fig For a long time,

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Kamala kissed him, and with a
deep astonishment, Sir Dartha felt how she

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taught him why she was, how
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him, and how after this first
one there was to be a long a

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well ordered, well tested sequence of
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He was still to receive, Breathing
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was, and was in this moment
astonished like a child about a corner copia

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of knowledge and things worth learning,
which revealed itself before his eyes. Very

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beautiful are your verses, exclaimed Kamala. If I was rich, I would

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give you pieces of gold for them. But it will be difficult for you

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to earn thus much money with verses
as you need, for you need a

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lot of money if you want to
be Kamala's friend the way you're able to

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kiss, Kamala stammered, said Arthur. Yes, this I am able to

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do. Therefore, I do not
lack clothes, shoes, bracelets and all

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beautiful things. But what will become
of you? Aren't you able to do

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anything else but thinking, fasting,
making poetry. I also know the sacrificial

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songs, said said Arthur, but
I do not want to sing them anymore.

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I also know magic spells, but
I do not want to speak them

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anymore. I have read the scriptures, stop, Kamala interrupted him. You're

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able to read and write, certainly
I can do this. Many people can

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do this. Most people can't.
I also can't do it. It is

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very good that you're able to read
and write. Very good. You will

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also still find use for the magic
spells. In this moment, a maid

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came running in and whispered the message
into her mistress's ear. There's a visitor

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for me, exclaimed Kamala. Hurry
and get yourself away, said Arthur.

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Nobody may see you in here.
Remember this tomorrow I'll see you again.

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But to the maid, she gave
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upper garments. Without fully understanding what
was happening to him, sid Arthur found

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himself being dragged away by the maid, brought into a garden house, avoiding

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the direct path, being given upper
garments as a gift, led into the

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bushes, and urgently admonished to get
himself out of the grove as soon as

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possible without being seen. Contently,
he did as he had been told.

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Being accustomed to the forest, he
managed to get out of the grove and

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over the hedge without making a sound. Contently, he returned to the city,

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carrying the rolled up garments under his
arm. At the inn where travelers

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stay, he positioned himself by the
door without words. He asked for food

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without a word. He accepted a
piece of rice cake. Perhaps as soon

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as tomorrow, he thought, I
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Suddenly pride flared up in him.
He was a Samana no more. It

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was no longer becoming to him to
beg He gave the rice cake to a

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dog and remained without food. Simple
is the life which people lead in this

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world here, thought said Arthur.
It presents no difficulties. Everything was difficult,

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toilsome and ultimately hopeless when I was
still a Samana. Now everything is

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easy, easy, like that lessons
in kissing which Kamala is giving me.

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I need clothes and money, nothing
else. This is a small near goal.

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They won't make a person lose any
sleep. He had already discovered Kamala's

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house in the city long before there
he turned up the following day. Things

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are working out well, she called
out to him. They are expecting you

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at Kamaswami's. He is the richest
merchant of the city. If he'll like

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you, he'll accept you into his
service. Be smart, brown, Samana.

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I had others tell him about you. Be polite towards him. He

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is very powerful, but don't be
too modest. I do not want you

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to become his servant. You shall
become his equal, or else I won't

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be satisfied with you. Kamaswami is
starting to get old and lazy. If

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like you, he'll entrust you with
a lot, said Arthur. Thanked her

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and laughed, And when she found
out that he had not eaten anything yesterday

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and to day, she sent for
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You've been lucky, she said,
when they parted. I'm opening one

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door after another for you. How
come do you have a spell, said

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Arthur, said, yesterday I told
you I knew how to think, to

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wait, and to fast, and
you thought this was of no use.

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But it is useful for many things. Kamala. You'll see. You'll see

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that the stupid Samanas are learning and
able to do many pretty things in the

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forest which the likes of you aren't
capable of. The day before yesterday,

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I was still a shaggy beggar.
As soon as yesterday I have kissed Kamala,

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and soon I'll be a merchant and
have money and all those things you

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insist upon. Well, yes,
she admitted, but where would you be

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without me. What would you be
if Kamala wasn't helping you, Dear Kamala,

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said sid Arthur, and straightened up
to his full height. When I

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came to you in your grove,
I did the first step. It was

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my resolution to learn love from this
most beautiful woman. From that moment on,

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when I made this resolution, I
also knew that I would carry it

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out. I knew that you would
help me at your first glance at the

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entrance to the grove, I already
knew it. But what if I hadn't

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been willing you were willing? Look, Kamala, when you throw a rock

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into the water, it will speed
on the fast discourse to the bottom of

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the water. This is how it
is when Sir d'Arthur has a goal,

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a resolution. Sir Dartha does nothing. He waits, he thinks, he

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fasts, but he passes through the
things of the world like a rock through

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water, without doing anything, without
stirring. He is drawn. He lets

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himself fall. His goal attracts him
because he doesn't like anything enter his soul

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which might oppose the goal. This
is what Sir Dartha has learned among the

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Samanas. This is what falls call
magic. And of which they think it

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would be affected by means of the
demons. Nothing is affected by demons.

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There are no demons. Everyone can
perform magic. Everyone can reach his goals

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if he is able to think,
if he is able to wait, if

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he is able to fast. Kamala
listened to him. She loved his voice,

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she loved the look of his eyes. Perhaps it is so, she

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said, quietly, as you say, friend. But perhaps it is also

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like this, that Siddhartha is a
handsome man, that his glance pleases the

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women, and that therefore good fortune
is coming towards him. With one kiss,

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Siddhartha bid his farewell. I wish
that it should be this way,

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my teacher, that my glance shall
please you, that always good fortune shall

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come to me out of your direction. End of Chapter five