Siddhartha's Journey In Sidhartha

In “Siddhartha”, by Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha undergoes a tough journey of mental and physical preparation to seek knowledge where he experienced many obstacles that enhanced his wisdom up to the point where he reached enlightenment. The author portrays many obstacles that the protagonist overcomes throughout time only by the crucial preparation to reach the purest state of happiness. Siddhartha, the young falcon, realized that he was not born with knowledge; that he had to experience it in order to become wise.
In ancient India the young Braham left with his best friend and follower Govinda to follow the Samanas in order to find inner peace. Leaving his house after the refusal of his father, the knowledge-seeking Siddhartha had to accomplish an important task in his life for his dissatisfaction, to learn as much as he can from his journey. The restless Siddhartha knew that he could no longer learn from the sages in his community and that it was time to move on. He joined …show more content…
He was raised in the upper caste and his father raised him to be someone highly respected and possibly a prince among the Brahmans. However, the young Siddhartha cared nothing about high status or learning from his people because he already has and he knew it was time to move on. His early lessons of meditation began in the Bayan Tree which symbolizes the ambition to reach inner peace, where Siddhartha meditated but did not feel comforted. Instead he saw the necessity to travel with the Samanas. With them he learned to resist self defeating the including starving and enduring in harsh weather conditions. Not only was he just learning new abilities but the student who after three years stood by the wise men realized that he needed to move on after mastering self-denial and practicing the Feats of Strength whose values also made him overcome his