Siddhartha would encounter many different stages in his life, creating both successes and

failures. Throughout life, Siddhartha came across many experiences that changed his life

and at the same time helped him to conquer his goal of reaching his Nirvana. From

adolescence to old age, he encountered many different people, each educating him in a

different manner and bringing him one step closer to succeeding in his quest.

As a child, the life that Siddhartha was living was not the ideal way in which he wished

he could live. Siddhartha had asked permission from his father to let him go and join the

Samanas but his father refused. "I will stand and wait" (Hesse 11) was how Siddhartha

reacted to the response from his father and he would indeed do that until his father had

finally given him consent to leave. This is where Siddhartha comes across his first

experience in such a way that, all his life he

(Hesse14). He was able to do this through a long, untravelled path. He would choose

become empty of thirst, desires, dreams, pleasure and sorrow and to let thy self die"

he would find his inner peace. As Vasudeva explained to him, the river symbolized rebirth

traveled along the path of self-denial through pain, through voluntary suffering and

conquering of pain, through hunger, thirst and fatigue" (Hesse 15). He gave up all of the

across the life of greed. His life as a businessman was flourishing but he was not yet

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