When he visited the city for the fourth time, in a garden the prince saw a happy man wearing an orange colored robe. Then he asked Channa.
“Who is this man wearing an orange colored dress? His hair is all shaved off. Why does he look so happy? How does he live and what does he do for a living?”
“That is a monk,”Said Channa.
“He lives in a temple goes from house to house for his food and goes from place to place telling people how to be happy and how to be good.”
The prince was very happy now. He thought:
“I must become one like that,”
And then he walked through the garden very happily.
He walked until he was tired. Then he sat down under a tree to rest. As he was sitting under a cool shady tree, news came that his wife had given birth to a fine baby boy. As soon as he heard the news he said,
“Rahula has been born to me, an obstacle has been born to me,”and his son’s name become “Rahula”.
As he was returning to the palace from the garden he passed the room of one of the Princesses called Kisagotami. She was looking out of the window and saw the prince coming. She was so taken in by the young handsome prince that she said loudly:
“O, How happy, and how cool must be the mother, and the father, and the wife of such a handsome young prince!”
As he passed this woman, he heard this and thought to himself that everybody would be happier if they knew what real and selfish happiness were.
