Examples Of Receptacles In Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha

Bottleneck of Dreams Siddhartha Receptacle Motif Paper Bigger is better. But only when material limitations are kept in mind. When the scope of the receptacle extends to the world of abstractions— the land of infinite containers of the mind and heart— there are no tangible limits. Two friends, thinkers, wanderers, searchers from Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse feels the worldly limits on their goal of enlightenment— they do not understand how to reach Nirvana, to allow the container of themselves to be filled with a unity of everything, to achieve an infinite capacity of love for all things. When Siddhartha accomplishes his goal, he realizes that which limits the effective capacity of his unlimited mind is not the constraints of the physical world, but rather his own restricted mindset. As a youth, Siddhartha best epitomizes an empty, closed receptacle, incapable of …show more content…
It is the infinite receptacle at this point. It contains all. Neither time nor space exist. It is all and always.
The river can act as Siddhartha’s teacher because of this amazing, indefinite capacity, unlike the insufficient knowledge of the Brahmins. It is capable of holding “them all, the whole, the unity … [and] Om— perfection” (136). It is this, an impenetrable and inescapable container of everything and one, a black hole of ideas the makes the river the ultimate container. Although water and physical objects can flow freely through, everything that the river has ever encountered has become a part of it, encapsulated in its limitless spiritual repository.
Never will it suffice to restrict one’s attitude when the all forms are transitory and the world is always changing. In a hypothetically infinite medium such as the mind, the only bottleneck to dreams and aspirations lies in one’s thinking. The ideal receptacle is one without a thought, without Self, without conscious narrow-mindedness: it exists in a state of pure