Siddartha
Siddartha was a respect young man what had great knowledge of his religion and everything it consisted of. Siddartha was unhappy and wanted to seek more knowledge. Siddartha, bored and joyless in his heart was sure that the old brahims, his father and all his teachers had passed on all the knowledge they had. His mind was not full, and he was not at peace. No one could express meaningful ways for him to attain knowledge. He says, " Where were the priests and wise men who were not only successful in knowledge, but also experiencing it." After joining the Samanas and taking in their beliefs, his one goal was to rid himself from desire, thirst, dreams, pleasure and sorrow. He learned many ways to lose himself in many forms. He volunteered suffering and pain and conquered it, yet he hated returning to his self. He feels he could have learned the art of dying, rotting, and being reborn in a quicker way. He compares himself to a drinker, who drinks to forget about problems. He [the drinker] finds rest and solace, but like the Samanas returns to reality and everything is as it was. In search of Gotama, the Buddha Siddartha leaves the Samanas with enough intellect to hypnotize the old Samana. A very difficult task to follo
Siddartha loved the river; he knew its enchanted ness could teach him. He stayed with the ferryman and learned maintenceof the rice field and the boat. Siddartha suffered from Kamala's death, he felt in return he gained a son. Siddartha treated his son with consideration but the boy was continually sulky and unfriendly. Siddartha felt he was rich and happy, but his richness was not to the boy's standards. He felt a love for his son that he never experienced. He proved Kamala wrong. His son ran away, and his foolish desire drove him to find his son. To him the runaway boy was a wound that was not meant to hurt him but to heal him. Once more he sat in the forest depressed without a goal. Siddartha learned pleasure and business during his interactions with Kamala and Kawaswami. He felt no stress in losing money; he felt money provided small pleasures and honor that wasn't guaranteed. Kamala also addressed something that would be proved wrong later. " Perhaps people like us can't love, Ordinary people can and that is their secret." Siddartha felt that he wasted many years without belonging to the world. Property, possessions and riches trapped him into what he thought was a game. It now became a burden. He turned to Kamala for passion again and again. At the same time he was full of misery. He was always content with little pleasures, yet never really satisfied. Business and lovemaking were irrelevant. It only made him weak. He had another dream about Kamala's lively songbird. The b
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Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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