Years later when Govinda comes in search of the fabled Buddha of the river, he again fails to recognize his friend. However, when he kisses Siddhartha on the forehead he gets a vision of a stream of infinite faces that fills him with love and admiration for this Buddha.

hing good that is inside it, he decides to leave the world of Samsara for good.

Siddhartha goes back to the river that he once crossed, and falls into a deep sleep, which reawakens him into the real world. Govinda, now a monk, guarded Siddhartha from snakes while he slept. However, he does not recognize his old friend. Siddhartha then becomes a ferryman’s apprentice, but at the same time listens to the secrets of the river. He becomes a pupil of the ferryman known as Vasudeva, who lives by this river. Together the two old men grow very wise. One day, eleven years later, Kamala crosses the river with the son that she had by Siddhartha, in search of the dying Gotama. Kamala is bitten by a snake and dies in front of the ferrymen, but she dies in peace because she was, in fact, looking into the face of Siddhartha-who was a Buddha. The son is left in Siddhartha’s care but is spoiled and unhappy and runs away. The heartbroken father goes after him, but can’t catch him, and he learns finally what love truly is. He returns to the river, whose voice seems to sing the word of perfection, “Om”. It teaches him that there is only the present, and that the past and future are but shadows. He learns that all that has been and that will be are contained in what is, and that it is pointless to worry a

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