The Simple Truths
Do you ever feel like a plastic bag drifting through the wind, wanting to start again? Well, it seems like Siddhartha felt this way on more than one occasion. Throughout Siddhartha, written by Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha believes he is near inner enlightenment, but always discovers a new hardship that makes the previous statement evaporate into thin air. He has to feel the evils of riches grip his heart, must discover the loving affects a parent has towards their child, and the teachings of a ferryman to finally reach his final goal of inner enlightenment, all the while discovering that the answer one seeks can be found in the simplest of places. After several years with a group named the Samanas, Siddhartha discovers a lovely …show more content…
Years passed without a worry in the world until one fateful day Kamala arrived at the hut where Siddhartha and Vasudeva lived. With her, she had a child that belonged to Siddhartha. Unfortunately, Kamala was bitten by a snake and died, leaving the boy with his father whom he had never met. Siddhartha tried to teach his son how to meditate but his son was as stubborn as a bull. Siddhartha tried so desperately that he soon forgot about himself and all he cared for was his child. As stated," But now, since his son was there, he, Siddhartha, had become completely like one of the people, through sorrow, through loving. He was madly in love, a fool because of love. Now he also experienced belatedly, for once in his life, the strongest and strangest passion; he suffered tremendously through it and yet was uplifted, in some way renewed and richer"(Hesse p.99). However, his son soon felt he was being tortured because he was with two old men he had never met, he acted badly, and instead of being taught discipline for his actions he was just shown more love. This angered the bow and he left. Of course Siddhartha followed him because of blind love until Siddhartha realized the bow had gone back to the home of Kamala. Siddhartha soon realized that, once again, he was being greedy but he had to experience this because it reminded him that he was a …show more content…
Time and time again Vasudeva convinced him not to go because it would just destroy him again. One day Vasudeva decided to teach Siddhartha his final lesson. Vasudeva asked Siddhartha to listen to the river more intently than he had ever done before. So, Siddhartha sat there, listening, watching, and saw all the people that he knew. This was all stuff he had already seen before but Vasudeva urged him to listen better. Soon afterwards, Siddhartha must have been on something because he soon began to trip out. As stated," The picture of his father, his own picture, and the picture of his son all flowed into each other. Kamala's picture also appeared and flowed on, and the picture of Govinda and others emerged and passed on. They all became part of the river. It was the goal of all of them, yearning, desiring, suffering; and the river's voice was full of longing, full of smarting woe, full of insatiable desire. The river flowed on towards its goal. Siddhartha saw the river hasten, made up of himself and his relatives and all the people he had ever seen. All the waves and water hastened, suffering, towards goals, many goals, to the waterfall, to the sea, to the current, to the ocean, and all goals were reached and each one was succeeded by another…" ( Hesse p. 110). It goes on to say how much other trippy stuff he was able to see but Siddhartha had finally reacher inner enlightenment. With that in mind, Vasudeva
Do you ever feel like a plastic bag drifting through the wind, wanting to start again? Well, it seems like Siddhartha felt this way on more than one occasion. Throughout Siddhartha, written by Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha believes he is near inner enlightenment, but always discovers a new hardship that makes the previous statement evaporate into thin air. He has to feel the evils of riches grip his heart, must discover the loving affects a parent has towards their child, and the teachings of a ferryman to finally reach his final goal of inner enlightenment, all the while discovering that the answer one seeks can be found in the simplest of places. After several years with a group named the Samanas, Siddhartha discovers a lovely …show more content…
Years passed without a worry in the world until one fateful day Kamala arrived at the hut where Siddhartha and Vasudeva lived. With her, she had a child that belonged to Siddhartha. Unfortunately, Kamala was bitten by a snake and died, leaving the boy with his father whom he had never met. Siddhartha tried to teach his son how to meditate but his son was as stubborn as a bull. Siddhartha tried so desperately that he soon forgot about himself and all he cared for was his child. As stated," But now, since his son was there, he, Siddhartha, had become completely like one of the people, through sorrow, through loving. He was madly in love, a fool because of love. Now he also experienced belatedly, for once in his life, the strongest and strangest passion; he suffered tremendously through it and yet was uplifted, in some way renewed and richer"(Hesse p.99). However, his son soon felt he was being tortured because he was with two old men he had never met, he acted badly, and instead of being taught discipline for his actions he was just shown more love. This angered the bow and he left. Of course Siddhartha followed him because of blind love until Siddhartha realized the bow had gone back to the home of Kamala. Siddhartha soon realized that, once again, he was being greedy but he had to experience this because it reminded him that he was a …show more content…
Time and time again Vasudeva convinced him not to go because it would just destroy him again. One day Vasudeva decided to teach Siddhartha his final lesson. Vasudeva asked Siddhartha to listen to the river more intently than he had ever done before. So, Siddhartha sat there, listening, watching, and saw all the people that he knew. This was all stuff he had already seen before but Vasudeva urged him to listen better. Soon afterwards, Siddhartha must have been on something because he soon began to trip out. As stated," The picture of his father, his own picture, and the picture of his son all flowed into each other. Kamala's picture also appeared and flowed on, and the picture of Govinda and others emerged and passed on. They all became part of the river. It was the goal of all of them, yearning, desiring, suffering; and the river's voice was full of longing, full of smarting woe, full of insatiable desire. The river flowed on towards its goal. Siddhartha saw the river hasten, made up of himself and his relatives and all the people he had ever seen. All the waves and water hastened, suffering, towards goals, many goals, to the waterfall, to the sea, to the current, to the ocean, and all goals were reached and each one was succeeded by another…" ( Hesse p. 110). It goes on to say how much other trippy stuff he was able to see but Siddhartha had finally reacher inner enlightenment. With that in mind, Vasudeva