So you say, O friend, and yet you know that Siddhartha is not an ox-driver, and a samana is not a drunkard. It is true that the drinker finds a stupor, it is true that he finds a short escape and takes a rest, but he returns from the delusion and, finding everything the same, has not become wiser, has not gained knowledge, has not risen higher by steps
Once, when the two youths had been living with the Samanas for about three years and had shared their exercises, she received a message, a rumor, a legend in various ways and in a roundabout way: someone had appeared, called Gotama, the Blessed One, the Buddha, who had overcome the suffering of the world within himself and brought the wheel of rebirths to a standstill. As a teacher, surrounded by disciples, he walks through the country, ownerless, homeless, womanless, in the yellow cloak of an ascetic, but with a serene forehead, a blessed one, and Brahmins and princes bowed down to him and became his disciples