Need Help Understanding Siddharta
Maybe this book was just not an attention getter for me, but I passively read Siddharta and did not find the fullfilment that I usually do reading other books.
To me, everything was described clearly, but I did not find a satisfying ending.
What realizations were made by Siddharta in the end? Or was it something that Govinda realized?
To me, it just doesn't seem like the last chapter.
Can anyone help me understand the last of Siddharta so I can possibly make a connection to the rest of the book?
*edit: Does anyone see any types of symbolism in the book? I really want to pull meaning out of this book, but I can't find any symbolism!
--tabby123
Siddharta and few insights
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tabby123
Maybe this book was just not an attention getter for me, but I passively read Siddharta and did not find the fullfilment that I usually do reading other books.
To me, everything was described clearly, but I did not find a satisfying ending.
What realizations were made by Siddharta in the end? Or was it something that Govinda realized?
To me, it just doesn't seem like the last chapter.
Can anyone help me understand the last of Siddharta so I can possibly make a connection to the rest of the book?
*edit: Does anyone see any types of symbolism in the book? I really want to pull meaning out of this book, but I can't find any symbolism!
--tabby123
Obviously, the best thing you could do is to read it all over again and grasp all the insights of the novel. It is indeed a beautiful novel and I realized that Siddharta's personal search for freedom of soul and body and the finding of his innermost part, which is Atman , may concern all of us more or less. What you should really look up in the novel while you read it is repetition. Siddharta is not a linear novel , where events go on with time and they never come back. In this novel everything seem to repeat, characters, places, etc. The river is the most powerful image of Siddharta's life and this is where he'll finally find Enlightenment( The Middleway between the ascetic life he led and samsara, which is the luxury life, and the Earthly pleasures -the state in which we're most of us). The River flows , as our lives do, but the bed of the River remains the same, and this represents our body. As Siddharta looks in the River, he is able to reach Enlightenment through having a human emotion and remembering all the people that helped him and led him to his final goal.This final part of the novel it's a real mix if I can say so between Buddhism and Christianity dogmas. Siddharta is basically a very good novel for the West to better understand the East.
You'll definitely want to read it again.