Siddhartha begins his life under the teachings of his father and fellow Brahmins. He soon "feels the seeds of discontent within him." Everything about their lifestyle is about filling the mind. They spend hours studying the ways of their religion and how to attain peace, but none of them ever do. "The Brahmins and their holy books knew everything-the creation of the world, the origin of speech, food, inhalation, exhalation, the arrangement of the senses, the acts of the gods." Siddhartha finally asks himself "What was it worth to know all these important things if they did not know the one important thing, the only important thing?" Hesse also incorporates a chant into the story, "Om is the bow, the arrow is the soul, Brahman is the arrow's goal At which o

Siddhartha begins his life anew once again. He is intrigued by a mistress that he sees in the forest and asks to be taught in the arts of love. She refuses at first, stating that men "come to me in fine clothes, in fine shoes; there is a scent in their hair and money in their purses." Siddhartha sets off to attain these things in order to be with Kamala. This marks the beginning of his change over from the realm of the mind to that of the body. It is significant to add that, had it not been for Siddhartha's ability to read and write, learned from his previous lifestyle, he would not have been able to succeed in this new world. This helps demonstrate the initial connection between the two worlds.

Two other realizations that Siddhartha experience are also significant to the idea of the synthesis. The first is that "there is no such thing as time." This shows the coming together of the two previous worlds that Siddhartha experienced. If "present only exists for it, not the shadow of the past, nor the shadow of the future" then the two parts of Siddhartha's life were really one part, hence synthesis. The other realization that Siddhartha has is demonstrated with a stone. He says that "This stone is a stone; it is also animal, God and Buddha. I do not respect and love it because it was one thing and will become something else, but because it has already long been everything and always is everything." He is saying that everything is related and dependent on one another. This is his acceptance of his earlier life and shows the rea

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