The idea to alter the vow came from Fiesch Mayor Herbert Volken, but the concern was not driven by worldly or secular impulses.
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However, such service will either concern social and worldly life, which I cannot do, and also in stormy times it is not possible to perform such service soundly.
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The film's loveliest sections are those that concern the life of Siddhartha, the Indian prince who renounced worldly pleasures and religious extremism to find the Middle Way of Buddhist truth.