Book II. Dukanipāta: No. 237. Sāketa-Jātaka

"Why are hearts cold," etc.--This story the Master told during a stay near Sāketa, about a brahmin named Sāketa. Both the circumstances that suggested the story and the story itself have already been given in the First Book 3. _____________________________ p. 163 [235]...And when the Tathāgata had gone to the monastery, the Brother asked, "How, Sir, did the love begin? "and repeated the first stanza:-- Why are hearts cold to one--O Buddha, tell!-- And love another so exceeding well?" _____________________________ The Master explained the nature of love by the second stanza: "Those love they who in other lives were dear, As sure as grows the lotus in the mere." After this discourse was ended, the Master identified the Birth:--"These two people were the brahmin and his wife in the story; and I was their son." 162:3 No. 68.