Then the time came when a dream warned him. He had spend the hours of the evening with Kamala, in her beautiful pleasure-garden. They had been sitting under the trees, talking, and Kamala had said thoughtful words, words behind which a sadness and tiredness lay hidden. She had asked him to tell her about Gotama, and could not hear enough of him, how clear his eyes, how still and beautiful his mouth, how kind his smile, how peaceful his walk had been. For a long time, he had to tell her about the exalted Buddha, and Kamala had sighed and had said: "One day, perhaps soon, I'll also follow that Buddha. I'll give him my pleasure-garden for a gift and take my refuge in his teachings." But after this, she had aroused him, and had tied him to her in the act of making love with painful fervour, biting and in tears, as if, once more, she wanted to squeeze the last sweet drop out of this vain, fleeting pleasure. Never before, it had become so strangely clear to Siddhartha, how closely lust was akin to death. Then he had lain by her side, and Kamala's face had been close to him, and under her eyes and next to the corners of her mouth he had, as clearly as never before, read a fearful inscription, an inscription of small lines, of slight grooves, an inscription reminiscent of autumn and old age, just as Siddhartha himself, who was only in his forties, had already noticed, here and there, gray hairs among his black ones. Tiredness was written on Kamala's beautiful face, tiredness from walking a long path, which has no happy destination, tiredness and the beginning of withering, and concealed, still unsaid, perhaps not even conscious anxiety: fear of old age, fear of the autumn, fear of having to die. With a sigh, he had bid his farewell to her, the soul full of reluctance, and full of concealed anxiety. 这时，一个梦提醒了他。那天晚间，他在卡玛拉那儿，在她那美丽的大花园里。他们俩坐在树下交谈，卡玛拉说了些引人深思的话，话背后隐含着某种悲伤和倦乏。她请求他讲述戈塔马，而且老是听不够，戈塔马的眼睛如何纯洁，他的嘴如何文静优美，他的笑容如何亲切，他的步态如何平稳。他不得不把这个活佛的事儿向她讲了好久，然后卡玛拉叹了口气，说道：“将来，或许要不了多久，我也会去追随这位活佛。我要把我的大花园送给他，信奉他的学说。”可是接着，她又挑逗他，在爱情游戏中怀着痛苦的热情箍紧他，咬他，淌着泪，仿佛要从这空虚而短暂的情欲中再一次挤出最后一滴甜蜜来。席特哈尔塔忽然明白了，淫欲和死亡是多么接受。然后，他躺在她身边，卡玛拉的脸紧挨着他，从她的眼睛下面和嘴角旁边，他清晰地读到了一种令人不安的文字，一种由细线和浅纹构成的文字，让人联想到秋天与老年，就像席特哈尔塔自己，年方四十，黑发间却已经出现了花白的头发。在卡玛拉俊俏的脸上记得写着疲倦，疲倦和业已开始的憔悴，以及有意掩饰的、还没有说出的、也许还没有意识到的不安：害怕衰老，害怕秋天，害怕不可避免的死亡。他叹息着向她告别，心里充满了不快，充满了隐秘的不安。 Then, Siddhartha had spent the night in his house with dancing girls and wine, had acted as if he was superior to them towards the fellow-members of his caste, though this was no longer true, had drunk much wine and gone to bed a long time after midnight, being tired and yet excited, close to weeping and despair, and had for a long time sought to sleep in vain, his heart full of misery which he thought he could not bear any longer, full of a disgust which he felt penetrating his entire body like the lukewarm, repulsive taste of the wine, the just too sweet, dull music, the just too soft smile of the dancing girls, the just too sweet scent of their hair and breasts. But more than by anything else, he was disgusted by himself, by his perfumed hair, by the smell of wine from his mouth, by the flabby tiredness and listlessness of his skin. Like when someone, who has eaten and drunk far too much, vomits it back up again with agonising pain and is nevertheless glad about the relief, thus this sleepless man wished to free himself of these pleasures, these habits and all of this pointless life and himself, in an immense burst of disgust. Not until the light of the morning and the beginning of the first activities in the street before his city-house, he had slightly fallen asleep, had found for a few moments a half unconsciousness, a hint of sleep. In those moments, he had a dream: 然后，席特哈尔塔回到自己家里和舞女们饮酒消磨长夜，对与他同等地位的人摆出轻蔑的样子，其实他已经没什么可自负的了。他喝了好多酒，午夜之后很晚才摸上床，虽然疲倦却很激动，真想大哭，几乎绝望，想睡而又久不成寐，心里充满了一种他以为无法再忍受的愁苦，充满了一种他感到浑身难受的恶主，就像酒的那种温吞吞的讨厌味道，就像过分甜腻而单调的音乐，就像舞女们那过分柔媚的笑容，就像她们的秀发和乳房那过分甜腻的芳香。但是，最让他恶心的是他自己，是他的香气扑鼻的头发，是他嘴里的酒味，是他的皮肤的疲沓与不适。就好像一个人吃得太多或者喝得太多，难受得呕吐出来，然后由于一身轻松而感到高兴那样，这个失眠者也希望能在一阵呕吐之后摆脱这些享乐，摆脱这些习惯，摆脱这种毫无意义的生活，摆脱自己。直到天光大亮，他的住所门前大街上开始了喧闹忙碌时，他才迷迷糊糊地睡着了，陷入一种半麻木的状态，一种睡意蒙笼。就在这片刻之中他做了一个梦。 Kamala owned a small, rare singing bird in a golden cage. Of this bird, he dreamt. He dreamt: this bird had become mute, who at other times always used to sing in the morning, and since this arose his attention, he stepped in front of the cage and looked inside; there the small bird was dead and lay stiff on the ground. He took it out, weighed it for a moment in his hand, and then threw it away, out in the street, and in the same moment, he felt terribly shocked, and his heart hurt, as if he had thrown away from himself all value and everything good by throwing out this dead bird. 卡玛拉养了一只奇异的小鸟，关在一个金鸟笼里。他梦见了这只小鸟。他梦见这只鸟儿变哑巴了，而平时早上它总是鸣啭不已。他发现了这点，就走到鸟笼前往里瞅，小鸟已经死了，直挺挺地躺在笼子底。他取出死鸟，在手里掂了掂，就把它扔了，扔到街上。他感到很害怕，心里很难受，就好像他把一切价值和一切美好都跟这只死鸟一起扔掉了。