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Siddhartha and the Illusion of Time


Furthermore, Siddhartha did not realize the answer he was seeking with fervent desire laid in time itself. Further augmenting this sense of ignorance towards time, Siddhartha practiced OM daily without knowing and comprehending its complexity and significance.
             Furthermore, at the peak of reaching enlightenment Siddhartha begins to comprehend the simultaneity of time. Time is simultaneous since past, present, and future are one. As Siddhartha began to comprehend the unity of time he states, "And everything together, all the voices, all the goals, all the yearning, all the suffering, all the desire, everything good and evil, everything all together was the world. Everything all together was the flow of events, was the music of life." (Hesse 106) As illustrated by this excerpt Siddhartha depicts all the voices and emotions emitted by the river and every individual as the world, flow of events, and melody of life.Further comprehending Siddhartha's perspective of the world, one must have in mind that time flows like a river. This metaphor is significant in the sense that Siddhartha's guide and spiritual teacher was the river and its harmonious sayings. Hence, as Siddhartha listened to the river's flow he heard several voices enlaced together with feelings of suffering and joy, which represent the past, present, and future in unity. As a result, all these voices and emotions enabled Siddhartha to hear OM, perfection and consequently attain enlightenment. Moreover, Siddhartha understands the key to enlightenment is time and unity. Unity is the key which joins poor and rich, evil and good, past and future, and finally Siddhartha's question to the world 's answer. Moreover, Siddhartha discovers this simultaneity of time, "Without this fear of time, Siddhartha is soon able to destroy the illusion of multiplicity." As this excerpt depicts, Siddhartha realized that contradicting the mundane believe that the past is gone and that the future is currently non-existent the river indicated that everything that already occurred and will occur presently exists.


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