Siddhartha Vocabulary

Front 1

How, indeed, could he not know love, he who has recognized all humanity's vanity and __________________, yet loves humanity so much that he has devoted a long life solely to help and teach people?

Back 1

transitoriness

Front 2

I should prefer it if you would give me some old clothes and keep me here as your assistant, or rather your _________, for I must learn how to handle the boat.

Back 2

apprentice

Front 3

I hoarded money, I ________ money, I acquired a taste for rich food. I learned to stimulate my sense.

Back 3

squandered

Front 4

Kamaswami ___________ him for not returning immediately, for wasting time and money.

Back 4

reproached

Front 5

If you find _____________, come back, and we shall again offer sacrifices to the gods together.

Back 5

disillusionment

Front 6

Or are we perhaps going in circles -- we who thought to escape from the ______?

Back 6

cycle

Front 7

The water changed to ______ and rose, became rain and came down again, became spring, brook and river, changed anew, flowed anew.

Back 7

vapor

Front 8

Who would not willingly give advice to a poor, ignorant Samana who comes from the _________ in the forest.

Back 8

jackals

Front 9

He had a happy knack and surpassed the merchant in calmness and ___________, and in the art of listening and making a good impression on strange people.

Back 9

equanimity

Front 10

Meditation is a temporary ___________against the pain and folly of life.

Back 10

palliative

Front 11

Govinda knew that he would not become an ordinary Brahmin, a lazy sacrificial official, an avaricious dealer in magic sayings, a conceited worthless ________, a wicked sly priest, or just a good stupid sheep amongst a large herd.

Back 11

orator

Front 12

Without quite knowing what was happening, Siddhartha was led away quickly by the servant, conducted by a _____________route to a garden house, presented with a gown, let into the thicket and expressly instructed to leave the grove unseen, as quickly as possible.

Back 12

circuitous

Front 13

In the evening, however, when the heat _______ and everyone in the camp was alert and gathered together, they heard the Buddha preach.

Back 13

abated

Front 14

And remembering Kamala's words, he was never ___________ to the merchant, but compelled him to treat him as an equal and even more than his equal.

Back 14

servile

Front 15

Amongst the thousands there have been a few, four or five, to whom the river was not an ___________.

Back 15

obstacle

Front 16

It seemed to him that they had been arrogant and ____________ words.

Back 16

precocious

Front 17

You show the world as a complete, unbroken chain, an _________ chain, linked together by cause and effect.

Back 17

eternal

Front 18

Their vanities, desires, and _____________ no longer seemed absurd to him; they had become understandable, lovable, and even worthy of respect.

Back 18

trivialities

Front 19

There is, so I believe, in the _______ of everything, something that we cannot call learning.

Back 19

essence

Front 20

I am no longer what I was, I am no longer an __________, no longer a priest, no longer a brahmin.

Back 20

ascetic

Front 21

Every finger of his hand spoke of peace, spoke of completeness, sought nothing, imitated nothing, reflected a continuous quiet, and unfading light, an ___________ peace.

Back 21

invulnerable

Front 22

They themselves intended to _________ from food that day.

Back 22

abstain

Front 23

What I have so far learned from the Samanas, I could have learned more quickly and easily in every inn in a prostitute's _________, amongst the carriers and dice players.

Back 23

quarter

Front 24

The river seemed like a god to him and for many years he did not know that every wind, every cloud, every bird, every beetle is equally divine and knows and can teach just as well as the _______ river.

Back 24

Esteemed

Front 25

He was overwhlemed by a feeling of icy _____, but he was more firmly himself than ever.

Back 25

despair