How Does Siddhartha Show Suffering As A Catalyst?

Siddhartha comes to realize that he has discovered who he really is, he is Siddhartha. He knows himself more than any other teaching or religion. As he comes to self-realization, he comprehends he has been letting himself slip away, he has been running away from himself.

        Siddhartha reaches a town and is moved by the beauty of the courtesan Kamala as she enters her grove in a sedan.  This starts Siddhartha stage of the flesh.  He asks her to be his teacher in the arts of love, but Kamala laughs and says that she receives only those young men who approach her in fine clothes and shoes, with scent in their hair and money in their purses. When she learns that Siddhartha can read and write, she conducts him to the businessman Kamaswami, who will help him to acquire the tokens necessary for entrance into her garden of pleasure.  Kamala gives him a kiss in exchange for a good poem, and the amount of knowledge in that kiss amazes Siddhartha.

When Siddhartha releases his grip on the tree, he says, in effect, that he believes there is nothing good or beautiful left in him. His time among the "child-like people" has rendered his attempts at reaching enlightenment meaningless and Nirvana is inaccessible to him for this lifetime, and, according to Hindu beliefs, he must endure millions more lifetimes as animals before he will have another life as a human. Of course, this is not a difficult decision for Siddhartha to make despite this, since he believes himself to be

Siddhartha grew to be an intelligent boy, fluently speaking 64 different languages and excelling at mathematics as well as archery. He lived a sheltered life in the king’s palace, marrying his cousin, Yashodhara at 16 years old. It wasn’t until his late twenties that Siddhartha was finally allowed to venture from the palace. He witnessed sick people, old people, poor people and even a corpse. These slowly chiselled away in his mind, leaving him with a significant compassion for the suffering people. This made him develop a strong desire to free every being from their endless distress. At age 29, the very day off his son, Rāhula, was born, Siddhartha ventured off to lead an ascetic life, with his hair cut off with rich clothes replaced with religious robes, to find out a way to relieve universal

In the beginning of Siddhartha, Siddhartha was focusing too much on having his atman reach enlightenment. He followed the Samanas, who were a group of people who thought that getting rid of desire would lead to enlightenment. Therefore, Samanas rejected most desires in their life. He had no balance of following the rules for enlightenement and enjoying life. He focused so much on his Atman that his life became filled with suffering.

To begin this young man started off in a rich state of living, he had everything he could ever need, thanks to his wealth family in the year 560 B.C.E. Finally one day Siddhartha left the palace and saw life for how it really was. Siddhartha went through what they call the “four passing sights” the first stage was Decrepit old man, Siddhartha did not know that old age existed. The second was a diseased person, Siddhartha didn’t know that sickness exists. The third was death he also did not know death existed. Finally last but not least Ascetic, Siddhartha didn’t know that people would live an austere life- from due to religion.

In the departure phase of his journey, Siddhartha completely shuns both internal and external desires and lives a more than humble life. During Siddhartha’s conversation with his father about leaving home, Siddhartha’s father, “returned again after an hour and again after two hours, looked through the window and saw Siddhartha standing there in the moonlight, in the starlight, in the dark” (11). Hermann Hesse’s use of dark and light imagery, emphasizes Siddhartha’s stubbornness for his desire to go with the Samanas, whose religious ideals are severe self discipline and restraint of all indulgence; he is adamant about leaving home, as his father checked on him countlessly and Siddhartha stood there unwavering despite the many hours and change of daylight so he could earn his father’s blessing to live the lifestyle of an ascetic. Furthermore, Siddhartha travels to the Samanas with Govinda to destroy Self and the multitudinous amount of desire by quelling each desire and all together Self even though he knows it is a difficult goal to achieve, “Although Siddhartha fled from Self a thousand times, dwelt in nothing, dwelt in animal and stone, the return was inevitable” (16). The effect of Siddhartha’s multiple attempted destructions of Self as a consequence of living as a Samana are failure in his attempt to discover Nirvana. Moreover, Siddhartha travels with Govinda to the Buddha after leaving the

The longer Siddhartha lived in this manner the more he became like the people around him. Hesse points out that Siddhartha had become miserable due to a senseless cycle of acquiring wealth. Hesse states that, “His heart was so full of misery; he felt he could no longer endure it” (Hesse 66). Siddhartha’s suffering came from his attachment to material objects because he believed that it would bring him happiness, but true happiness can only be attained by denying yourself from these worldly

When Siddhartha leaves the town and returns to the river, he feels miserable and shame. He ponders the paths he has taken in search of enlightenment. Hopelessly, Siddhartha contemplates suicide. When he is deliberating, “the Om touched Siddhartha’s ears, he slumbering spirit suddenly awoke and it recognized the folly of his action”(79). This inner voice of Om awakes Siddhartha and finally saves him.

Each step of Siddhartha’s journey is a necessary element to finding the Good Life, when considered in the greater context of his life. For example, the period when Siddhartha lives as one of the “Child People,” succumbing to material possessions and falling into a life of sensual and worldly pleasures, is a learning moment (Hesse 73). It was essential for Siddhartha to experience this way of life, to transform and discover the Middle Way, to live in moderation, balancing overindulgence and suffering. Through the multitude of unexpected situations Siddhartha is faced with, Hesse depicts that transformation is the outcome of a combination of events, asserting that there is no direct route to the Good

Siddhartha learns that his conquest for enlightenment can only be achieved in a way that requires him to leave himself from his persistent mind of trying to find it to a calm mindset of it already happening and continues to find himself . He learn to be patient as he waits a long time to find his inner peace which takes his entire life to find. He finds himself in very difficult positions where he decides whether or not his quest is worth him leaving his family. Siddhartha

It seemed to him as if the river had something special to tell him, something which he did not know, something which still awaited him... The new Siddhartha a deep love for for this flowing water…” (Hesse 100). From this one can infer that if Siddhartha were to kill himself, he would not have a second chance to follow the path to find nirvana. He continued because of the sacred word

In the book Siddhartha, by Hermann Hesse we are given the life of a young Brahmin named Siddhartha and his journey to enlightenment. Through trial and error, we discover that enlightenment does not need to be reached through the act of self denial but through love, patience, and listening. All these qualities are things that in today’s modern society, most of our lifestyles lack. Siddhartha’s valuable life lessons are some that we can learn from and apply to ourselves.

“At the age of 29, Siddhartha came to realize that he could not be happy living as he had been. He had discovered suffering, and wanted more than anything to discover how one might overcome suffering.” (Boeree, George) He set forth to the forest, giving away his rich clothes, horse, and shaving his head. He started doing private practices with a group of five ascetics. Together they practiced for 6 years and the ascetics were so astonished they soon become followers of Siddhartha. Siddhartha still wasn’t satisfied in the answers he was finding and soon began to give up food and water, almost reaching death. Realizing these extreme behaviors weren’t going to get him answers, he decided he needed a middle way between life’s luxuries and self-mortification. Siddhartha sat himself under a fig and said he would sit there until he could find the answers to human suffering. He begins with meditating and concentration to clear his mind. Although “The Evil One” Mara tried to stop Siddhartha from achieving his goal, it was no use. “He began to see the universe as one and the great awakening had happened.” (Smith) Siddhartha had reach enlightenment and became Buddha.

The government wants this society to live under their rules and regulation no matter how dehumanized rules are they. The government had made this state as a dehumanized state for citizens, they had made this society a hell for the citizen where they are paying and suffering from the punishment for the wrong deed that they did not do. Treating ill people by a technician, use a ravenous method to kill people for reading books; these citizens think that whatever that is happening is a perfect picture of a utopian society which is a propaganda in their mind about their society. Thus, the government had assigned a special kind of technician which have the skill to treat ill people with a special kind of machinery. These technicians can only be helpful in dystopian society because in the