While Kamala was one of Siddhartha’s road of trials and his biggest temptation, she is not his Meeting with the Goddess. That title belongs to Siddhartha’s son. Traditionally, the role of the goddess is played by a woman, but sometimes that is not the case. Some may argue that Kamala is the love of Siddhartha’s life, but he never truly loved her with all of his heart. He found her beautiful, yes, and he thought she was clever and extraordinary, but like they said to each other in Kamala’s garden: “I am like you; you cannot love either, otherwise how could you practice love as an art?” They loved the thought of each other. They loved each other’s bodies, however they never loved each other’s hearts and souls. They did not love so deeply that it hurt, like the way Siddhartha feels for his son. Siddhartha asked himself this when talking to Vasudeva about his son: “Had he ever lost his heart to anybody so completely, had he ever loved anybody so much, so blindly, so painfully, so hopelessly and yet so happily? (121)”. He never felt those emotions about anyone before, let alone Kamala.
Rather than being Siddhartha 's goddess, Kamala is his Temptation. She was beautiful, intelligent and he was infatuated with her from the moment he saw …show more content…
He talks with Govinda, and reaches for a stone to demonstrate that life encompasses everything and nothing is just its physical self. He lifts the stone to his friends and says, “I see value and meaning in each of its fine markings and cavities, in yellow, in gray, the the hardness...each one is different and worships Om in its own way ; each one is Brahman (145)”. He now understands that life and time are not linear, that even though the stone is just a stone, it is also everything and anything. This allows Siddhartha to live freely and take one step at a time, no longer fearing the unknown such as
Rather than being Siddhartha 's goddess, Kamala is his Temptation. She was beautiful, intelligent and he was infatuated with her from the moment he saw …show more content…
He talks with Govinda, and reaches for a stone to demonstrate that life encompasses everything and nothing is just its physical self. He lifts the stone to his friends and says, “I see value and meaning in each of its fine markings and cavities, in yellow, in gray, the the hardness...each one is different and worships Om in its own way ; each one is Brahman (145)”. He now understands that life and time are not linear, that even though the stone is just a stone, it is also everything and anything. This allows Siddhartha to live freely and take one step at a time, no longer fearing the unknown such as