When Gautama Siddhartha left
His regal palace amid luxuriant gardens
For some remote place and outland,
He set thus a precedent of leaving home
For no reasonable purpose, they say.
They also question unceasingly:
"Did he think it was impossible
To find all what he found there
Among his numerous servants,
In his ruling house's problems,
In his wife's beautiful body and eyes
In his newborn baby's innocent smile?
"Did he think he had to go elsewhere,
Somewhere so far away to find out
The incontestable fact that our being
Was nothing else but sheer suffering?
"Didn't he never hear of the idea
That further one went the less one got
To know of the worldly occurrences?
What would I say to them if not that
Only he who drinks water can know
Whether it is cold enough or warm.
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