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Carbon Copies  And then Buddha saw a sannyasin in red robes, and
he asked, “What kind of man is this, and why is he wearing red
robes?”  The charioteer said, “This man has renounced the world
and he has become a seeker of truth. He wants to know who he is
and he wants to know whether his life is eternal or just a
temporal phenomenon. Will he survive the death of the body or
not? If he is not going to survive after death, then all is
meaningless. Then he has no soul, then he is just matter.”
Buddha told the charioteer, “Return the chariot home. I am not
going to inaugurate; somebody else can do it because I am in a
great spiritual turmoil. The old man, the dead man, the
sannyasin.”  That very night he escaped from the palace. He was
bored with all that luxury, he was bored with all that beauty,
and for the first time he saw what is going to happen next: old
age, sickness, death. Then before death comes, truth has to be
found.  Gautam Buddha was