siddartha

There is no Good and Evil.The Good is as 'bad' as the Evil and the Evil is as 'good' as the Good.Everything is worthy of love and should be accepted.In other words,if u meet a psycho,forgive him and embrace him...for there is Buddha in him and also Jesus Christ.Read this book if you can digest this idea.<br><br>After reading this book,I wondered what Siddartha would have done had he(after his 'realization') somehow travelled back in time and found himself in front of kamala's grove once again,dressed in nothing but a loin cloth.Would his journey,from that point, be any different?Would he give in to lust?Would he gamble once again?Would he lose himself in Samsara once again?'Sin', after all, is no different from 'Holiness'.<br><br>I read this book after reading HH's "The Glass bead game" and "The journey to the East".Needless to say,I was disappointed.But then again,the greatness of Hesse does not lie in the messages his works try to convey...it lies in their ability to kindle thought,in their ability to remind us that there are nobler pursuits.Ofcourse The Exalted One would say that The Noble is as 'good' as The Trivial.