... mission was accomplished was over by being in the presence of someone equal to the Buddha. Vasudeva is a very caring and helpful character, who always puts others" needs before his own. For example, he carries Siddhartha across the symbolic river which plays a big symbolic part in the novel, twice. The first time when Siddhartha's destination was Samsara and the next time away Samsara ... the river, learning first hand the secrets of the river. The kind Vasudeva always speaks accurately of what is on Siddhartha's mind and what Siddhartha sees as reality. When Siddhartha begins to feel th...

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... example if a follower of Buddhism followed the teachings and strived to reach the perfect state they might miss on what the perfect state really is all together. Through his novel Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse explores the philosophy of Buddhism in the title characters search for identity. 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 ... the river but she is bitten buy a snake and dies but she dies happy because she has looked apon the ...

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