Siddhartha is about a young boy who is suppose to live a life of becoming a Brahmin just like his father but deep down he knows there is more to life then becoming a Brahmin. He practices the rituals or religion that should all bring him happiness and inner peace and yet he still feels none of that and still is missing that feeling of happiness. Then one day a group called Samanas passing through their town begging for food, they believe that enlightenment comes from asceticism, the rejection of the body and physical desire and siddhartha believes that they might have the answers he is looking for.
Siddhartha quickly picks up the ways of the Samanas because of the discipline and patience and practiced with the Brahmins, he has learned to free himself of the traditional ownerships of life, his desire for property, clothing, sexuality and everything that he felt like he needed to live. Yet even though he slowly resembles his young self and praises the ways of the Samanas he is still dissatisfied with life and still feels like there is more to it, he sees the oldest Samanas has still not reached enlightenment and that worries him, feeling this his friend Govinda hear about a holy man Gotama that has reached enlightenment and convinces siddhartha to seek him out and to leave the Samanas.
Siddhartha at first feels like this man could teach him the true way of finding the path of enlightenment , they are instructed in the eightfold path consisting of the four main points of buddhism. Yet siddhartha grows weary after realizing Gotama contradicts himself after saying they need to find unity in the world but to overcome the physical world, siddhartha comes to terms with not being able to find the answers in this group either and leaves Govinda behind to follow this path he has set himself on. He comes across a women named Kamela who entices him in to the world of love but will not teach him until he learns the world of a merchant and then he soon learns under a merchant named Kamaswami. As they years pass he becomes the opposite of everything he has practiced, he enjoys gambling drinking and buying whatever he can get his hands on; he spins realizes that he hates this but is so far deep into this life that he just frowns himself with more wine and more gambling to drown the sadness away.
Full of hatred for himself siddhartha wanders until he comes across a river that he considers drowning himself in but decides to fall asleep on the bank, he befriends the ferryman and asks him to teach him the ways of the river. After years of listening to the river and learning from the ferryman and giving passages song the river, it finally hits siddhartha, that the river flows into rain and rain goes back into the river just like how all forms are connected by life and death, happiness and sadness, good and evil are all parts of the path of enlightenment and the journey of life and they are needed to reach enlightenment.
Siddhartha quickly picks up the ways of the Samanas because of the discipline and patience and practiced with the Brahmins, he has learned to free himself of the traditional ownerships of life, his desire for property, clothing, sexuality and everything that he felt like he needed to live. Yet even though he slowly resembles his young self and praises the ways of the Samanas he is still dissatisfied with life and still feels like there is more to it, he sees the oldest Samanas has still not reached enlightenment and that worries him, feeling this his friend Govinda hear about a holy man Gotama that has reached enlightenment and convinces siddhartha to seek him out and to leave the Samanas.
Siddhartha at first feels like this man could teach him the true way of finding the path of enlightenment , they are instructed in the eightfold path consisting of the four main points of buddhism. Yet siddhartha grows weary after realizing Gotama contradicts himself after saying they need to find unity in the world but to overcome the physical world, siddhartha comes to terms with not being able to find the answers in this group either and leaves Govinda behind to follow this path he has set himself on. He comes across a women named Kamela who entices him in to the world of love but will not teach him until he learns the world of a merchant and then he soon learns under a merchant named Kamaswami. As they years pass he becomes the opposite of everything he has practiced, he enjoys gambling drinking and buying whatever he can get his hands on; he spins realizes that he hates this but is so far deep into this life that he just frowns himself with more wine and more gambling to drown the sadness away.
Full of hatred for himself siddhartha wanders until he comes across a river that he considers drowning himself in but decides to fall asleep on the bank, he befriends the ferryman and asks him to teach him the ways of the river. After years of listening to the river and learning from the ferryman and giving passages song the river, it finally hits siddhartha, that the river flows into rain and rain goes back into the river just like how all forms are connected by life and death, happiness and sadness, good and evil are all parts of the path of enlightenment and the journey of life and they are needed to reach enlightenment.
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