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"That same night, Yashodhara had a dream that Siddhartha had left her. She awoke and told him of the dream. Then she said, "Lord, wherever you go, please take me with you." And knowing that he was going to a place beyond suffering and death, he agreed, and told her, "Where I go, you may go too"

It was a night not too long after the birth of his son, Rahula, that the bodhisattva chose to quit the palace forever and enter the path of homelessness. He decided to have a last look at Rahula before leaving. He found him asleep next to Yashodhara, with her hand resting lightly on his head. He knew that if he picked the baby up, he would wake his wife and leaving would become difficult. He turned on the spot, vowing to see his son again after he had attained enlightenment.
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But though she sent her maids and serving women to pay homage to the Buddha, Princess Yashodhara remained in her apartments, thinking to herself, "If the Blessed One values me, he will come to see me." So when the meal was finished, the Tathagata gave his bowl to his father to carry, and they went to Yashodhara's apartments.

The Buddha entered and sat down on the seat prepared for him. Yashodhara came at once to greet him. Grasping his ankles, she placed his feet on her head.

Then King Shuddhodana told the Buddha about Yashodhara's loyalty to him. "When she hear you wore saffron-colored robes, she too began to wear them. When she heard that you took only one meal a day, this became her custom too. When she heard you no longer slept on a bed but on the ground, she also slept on a mat on the floor. When she heard that you had given up wearing flowers and perfume, she too gave that up. And when her relatives sent messages for her to return home, since they would gladly care for her, she merely ignored them. This is how loyal and good my daughter was," said the king.

Rahula, the Buddha's son, was now seven years old. One day soon after the Buddha's arrival in Kapilavastu, Rahula went to talk with him and ask for his inheritance, as his mother had instructed him. The Blessed One did not embrace the boy ant more than he had any of his other relatives, yet Rahula told him, :It feels good even to stand in your shadow" And when the Buddha left the place to return to the Nigrodha Park, the little boy followed him, continuing to ask for his inheritance. Thus the Buddha finally had Shariputra enter Rahula into homelessness, thus making him a novice monk.
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The Tathagata's former wife, Yashodhara, also eventually entered the order, and she too was able to attain arhatship. She was particularly gifted in supernormal powers and became foremost among the bhikshunis in that manifestation of awakened mind.

From Chapter 1 of Entering the Stream