My name is Pragya. I am 66 years old. I have seen Siddhartha as he learns things from the Brahmins. He is very smart and everyone seems to like him. His friend Govinda is like his shadow. He follows him everywhere. One day I happened to be passing in the forest and I saw Siddhartha and Govinda learning from the Samanas. They both look as if they are on the verge of dying, but their expressions are blank because they are meditating. There has been a rumor going around town about someone called Gotama, the Buddha. I went to go hear him talk and I saw Siddhartha and Govinda there. By the end of Gotama's teachings I saw Govinda step up and say that he would follow Gotama and become a monk. Siddhartha did not step up. Govinda tells me that he has gone to find Self.