Siddhartas Path to Enlightement
Siddharta's Path to Enlightement Siddhartha revealed a lot to me that I did not know about Indian/Hindu culture and the caste system and how Buddhism tries to get away from the "norm." It revealed things such as how class structure and the religious climate. The religious climate has an impact on the choices people might even make in their life. Ironically, the Buddha is also known as Siddhartha and our Siddhartha's life sort of mirrors. In India there are five castes in which you were born into according to Buddhist tradition. There were the Brahmins, which was the priest class. The Kshatriyas was the second class from the top it was the warrior class. The third group the Valsya were the commoners. The Sudras are the farmers and the Pariahs are slaves and outsiders people rarely came in contact with. Through the caste system is how you would reach enlightenment or Nirvana in Hinduism. It is something that takes many life times. This creates a cycle of life that Siddhartha wanted to brake away from; this mirrors the feelings of the Buddha. At the time that Siddhartha met the Buddha, the Buddha had already broken off the wheel of life. Under
Through all of these ups and downs Siddhartha learned that you are not just enlightened by knowing all of these good things it is also the bad that change you. Also, it is an experience that can not be achieved by learning teachings, this is why the Buddha and Siddhartha broke off on there own journey from the Samanas. This is a reason why he could not achieve this wisdom at a young age. But, it took him a lifetime of experience as it would have taken others lifetimes. At the end of the book you have something to measure Siddhartha by and that is his friend Govinda. Govinda is exactly where Siddhartha would be had he not broke off and not been a follower. Govinda is smart but not enlightened. Siddhartha's entire goal is to break away from the all of these worldly ideas and concepts. His original fault though is automatically seeking enlightenment through plain knowledge and intelligence. He is sort of trying to rush on his enlightenment because he has experienced a lot of what is thought to give you wisdom. He even looks at the Semanas and rightfully doubts their tactics of gaining enlightenment. So after meeting Buddha, who himself was a Semana
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