悉达多讲的什么 名著精读:《悉达多》-卡玛拉(6)

名著精读:《悉达多》-卡玛拉(6)  

"Yes
this I am able to do
therefore I do not lack clothes
shoes
bracelets
and all beautiful things. But what will bee of you? Aren't you able to do anything else but thinking
fasting
making poetry?"
"I also know the sacrificial songs
" said Siddhartha
"but I do not want to sing them any more. I also know magic spells
but I do not want to speak them any more. I have read the scriptures--"
"Stop
" Kamala interrupted him. "You're able to read? And write?"
"Certainly
I can do this. Many people can do this."
"Most people can't. I also can't do it. It is very good that you're able to read and write
very good. You will also still find use for the magic spells."
In this moment
a maid came running in and whispered a message into her mistress's ear.
"There's a visitor for me
" exclaimed Kamala. "Hurry and get yourself away
Siddhartha
nobody may see you in here
remember this! Tomorrow
I'll see you again."
But to the maid she gave the order to give the pious Brahman white upper garments. Without fully understanding what was happening to him
Siddhartha found himself being dragged away by the maid
brought into a garden-house avoiding the direct path
being given upper garments as a gift
led into the bushes
and urgently admonished to get himself out of the grove as soon as possible without being seen.
Contently
he did as he had been told. Being accustomed to the forest
he managed to get out of the grove and over the hedge without making a sound. Contently
he returned to the city
carrying the rolled up garments under his arm. At the inn
where travellers stay
he positioned himself by the door
without words he asked for food
without a word he accepted a piece of rice-cake. Perhaps as soon as tomorrow
he thought
I will ask no one for food any more.
Suddenly
pride flared up in him. He was no Samana any more
it was no longer being to him to beg. He gave the rice-cake to a dog and remained without food.
"Simple is the life which people lead in this world here
" thought Siddhartha. "It presents no difficulties. Everything was difficult
toilsome
and ultimately hopeless
when I was still a Samana. Now
everything is easy
easy like that lessons in kissing
which Kamala is giving me. I need clothes and money
nothing else; this a small
near goals
they won't make a person lose any sleep."
He had already discovered Kamala's house in the city long before
there he turned up the following day.