"Siddhartha" audiobook excerpt

This is not a contemplation of mine, but, perhaps even more worthy of  contemplating than those I am blessed to share with you. It is an  excerpt from chapter 2 from the book “Siddhartha” by Herman Hesse, whose  full librivox.org audiobook can be found both on my channel's YouTube  playlist named “Recommendations to Contemplate on”  (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIC9j_VacKf2fJr1aaS2SHuionsv6Pm4W)  and here: https://librivox.org/siddhartha-by-hermann-hesse/  I will surely, by now, not reveal a spoiler for you, if I let you know  beforehand that the Gautama Buddha mentioned in the excerpt is  Siddhartha himself, in the future. Also noteworthy is that the friend he  talks with, named Govinda, is consistently addressed as “Siddhartha's  shadow” by the narrator. And please: this is a metaphor! Here goes, for your own contemplation.I had to speed up the reading a  bit to make it fit my 15 minutes limit.