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Updated: May 31, 2025
Then the Prince gave his attendant, who was named Channa, all the money and jewels that he possessed and told him to return to the Palace and tell the King that he, the Prince, had gone forth in search of enlightenment and would some day become a Buddha.
As he looked at their sleeping forms he felt disgust and ordered Channa, his charioteer, to saddle Kaṇṭhaka, a gigantic white horse, eighteen cubits long from head to tail. Meanwhile he went to his wife's room and took a last but silent look as she lay sleeping with her child. Then he started on horseback attended by Channa and a host of heavenly beings who opened the city gates.
You too will lose your powers and for what? a few brief years of joy a longer darkness then the old weary round the old sad effort to climb the long stairway from the bottom rung that once you proudly spurned. It was not this that Channa taught us in the sweet peace of our youth it was not this for which our souls thirsted, and to which our faces were set."
"Channa is dead, and to the dead all is peace. Even he said that Life's one good gift was Love." "True, but not selfish love. `The feet of the soul must be washed in the blood of the heart. Love to all humanity to the poor the sad the suffering. Love, even to the Fate that gives us sorrow and misfortune. Love to the eternal and immutable.
Siddhartha pointed him out to his coachman, Channa, but Channa answered that there were lots of poor people in this world and that one more or less did not matter. The young prince was very sad but he did not say anything and went back to live with his wife and his father and his mother and tried to be happy. A little while later he left the palace a second time.
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