Prince
Siddhartha finished his studies very soon. He had the best teachers to learn
from; the best friends to play with; the best house to live in; the best
clothes to wear and the best food to eat. His father had built him three places
one for each season – one for winter, one for summer and one for the rainy
season. He had also built for him extensive parks and hunting grounds with ponds
with water-lilies, swans and beautiful fish in them.
Asita
and Kondanna who came to the palace had warned the king, “When your son sees a
sick man, an old body, a dead body or a monk, he will want to leave your palace
and become a monk himself.”
The king would worry that his
son would see them and leave the palace. There he gave him many young servants
and did not allow any sick man or old man to go into the palace. The king did
not even let anybody talk about sickness, old age, death and monks. But prince
Siddhartha was very thought-full and was asking people many questions. He really
wanted to know the meaning of life.
One
day the king asked some wise people, “What shall I do to make my son happy? He
seems to be thinking always.” They said “Now your son is sixteen years old. Shall
we get a beautiful girl for him to marry?”
The
king agreed and sent for all the beautiful girls in the country to come to the
palace. When all of them came, the king asked the prince to choose one to be
his wife.
Among them there was a
most charming and kind girl by the name of Yasodara. When prince Siddhartha
gave her a present more valuable than what he had given to other maidens. The king
saw that the prince had chosen his love. The king happily accepted Yasodara and
allowed his son to marry her.
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