Old Age

“What is that, Channa?” asked Siddhartha. “That really cannot be a man! Why is he all bent? What is he trembling for? Why is his hair white and not black like mine? What is wrong with his eyes? Where are his teeth? Is this how some people are born? Tell me what does this mean?” Channa told the prince that it was an old man and he was not born like that, “When young he was like us and now, due to his old age he has become this way.”