In Indian/Buddhist culture the Brahman is the highest class in the Indian social hierarchy. Siddhartha’s father is a very well known Brahman throughout the area and Siddhartha is training to become a Brahman himself. Siddhartha is said by many to have a strong inner spirit and many people look up to him including his best friend Govinda which plays a large part

in Siddhartha’s life and “spiritual adventure”. One day after long hours of meditation Siddhartha decides he cannot find himself by staying at home studying with his father. Siddhartha asks his father if he can join the aesthetic Samanas who practice self denial and believe that in order to gain harmony with everything and everyone they must live a life of pain and suffering. At first, Siddhartha’s father refuses to let him leave the but after Siddhartha refuses to move from his spot for two days his father finally relents because he knows that this is Siddhartha’s destiny.

Throughout his quest Siddhartha learned from many people about many things and each time he found a flaw in them and each time he left, and in doing so he shed a part of himself and finally at the river he shed his body and was able to live in his soul and be one with himself and everything around him emerging a transfigured man, a Buddha.

Finally, Siddhartha’s quest is over when he realizes that all that is the present and the past and future are but shadows. Siddhartha realizes that he needs not to worry about the cycles of life but to think of the here and now. When Siddhartha emerges from the woods of death he has no need for his body and is able to live in everything and be complete. Siddhartha’s

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