Often he spoke to himself from a Chandogya-Upanishad the words: “Truly, the name of the Brahman is satyam ⁠—verily, he who knows such a thing, will enter the heavenly world every day.” Often, it seemed near, the heavenly world, but never had he reached it completely, never had he quenched the ultimate thirst. And among all the wise and wisest men, he knew and whose instructions had he received, among all of them there was no one, who had reached it completely, the heavenly world, who had quenched it completely, the eternal thirst.

“Govinda,” Siddhartha spoke to his friend, “Govinda, my dear, come with me under the banyan tree, let’s practise meditation.”

They went to the banyan tree, they sat down, Siddhartha right here, Govinda twenty paces away. While putting himself down, ready to speak the Om , Siddhartha repeated murmuring the verse: