Awakening in "Sidhartha"

We meet Siddhartha when he is dissatisfied with Brahmans( the highest cast in Hindu) because despite their knowledge, the Brahmins are seekers still, performing the same exercises again and again in order to reach Nirvana, which for Hindu is the peace of oneness with Atman the Divine within. However, Siddhartha does not know anyone from them who ever find Nirvana. As Siddhartha says: “One must find the source within one’s Self; one must possess it. Everything else was seeking- a detour error” (pg 5)

The young Brahmin finds that if Atman is within then he has to focus on the world within as well. He makes decision to leave the Brahmin

The last period of his life starts by the river where he hears the holy word Om-Perfection. He again becomes conscious of all that he has forgotten, all that is divine. He finally understands the river’s expression as a symbol of stream of life.It teaches Siddhartha the unity and simultaneity of life – its permanence as well as its flow through all things. Also from the river he learns that sorrow and joy , good and evil are inseparable part of the life. That realization brings him awakening because finally he understands the idea of world consisted in Om. Siddhartha throws forever his searching for ego after learning that the Self “robbed him of happiness and filled him with fear” (pg 80). Selflessness becomes very valuable for him. This discovering is possible only due to his different experiences. It is consistent with the Theravada Buddhism theory about the Self in which we are complication of different experiences , Five Aggregates such as matter, bare consciousness, sensation, perception and reaction. Siddhartha came through all these four to be able to judge himself. He says that his soul has been sick for so long due to his inability to love. Through his experience with his son, who leaves him choosing his own path ,Siddhartha learns how love can be blind and painful. After that he becomes united with other human being and achieves Nirvana. Representing love as a highest value in our life and as the most important way in attaining liberation reflects the Buddha message. Hindu view is in contrast to this idea in twofold way: love is seeing as devotion to Brahman/Atman and knowledge (not love) is the way to liberation. Siddhartha says to his friend Govinda that while knowledge is communicable, wisdom is not. No one can tell you where to find wisdom: it simply comes when you ready to receive it. It comes from a life of concrete experience and not from an abstract awareness.

The fact that appearance of Buddha imprints in his memory is kind of prove of his unintentional proce

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