Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse is a tale of a young Brahmin (Siddhartha) and his travels to find the deepest meaning of life; enlightenment. By doing so Siddhartha finds himself in multiple situations; he first begins searching for Samana. He eventually starts from that path, however, upon realizing that his physical body is disturbing his road of enlightenment. He had taught himself to realise his consciousness from his physical body. Himself and his childhood friend, Govinda would fast for weeks; realising themselves from all the hardships that disrupted the seeking of internal enlightenment. Word was realising that a high knowledgeable teacher was giving pupils the path to a knowledgeable and suffer less life. The two had met the teacher of …show more content…
Siddhartha had tried to take care of his boy but every chance he got the boy disrespected his father and resigned ever being born with such a horrible father. Siddhartha tried very hard to please his son only to be shut down and used. Vasudeva had told Siddhartha that he must let his son go, his son was made of different beliefs and religion as to him. Siddhartha didn’t want his son to be on his own but he knew that letting his son go would be beneficial to both himself and his son; freeing both from such great grief and resent. One morning, Siddhartha’s son runs away. Siddhartha and Vasudeva mount a search and rescue mission. Siddhartha goes to Kamals old grove knowing that his son would return to his home, there he felt an immense emptiness and decided to meditate under a tree next to the grove of Kamala. Hours later Vander finds Siddhartha, the two return to the ferryman's hut not speaking a word of the incident. The two go to the river's edge to listen to the river for he had missed something all these year; and today was the day he may be aware enough to understand. For the first time he heard all of the voices of the river not as many voices, but all as one single continuum of all life. All at once Siddhartha feels his soul emerge into unity and he achieves enlightenment. With Siddhartha reaching full enlightenment Vaseduvre leaves Siddhartha as a ferryman to that river so that he can teach others the language of the river and pass his enlightenment on to others. Siddhartha becomes widely popular; known as a knowledgeable person, many come to him to seek his enlightenment. Siddhartha's long lost friend, Govinda stumbles upon him and the two talk about their journeys toward enlightenment. He then kisses his childhood friend on the forehead and the two never see eachother