Siddhartha left his father because the lessons that he has absorbed from his father and other great teachers did not satisfy his hunger or desire to know one place in life and how to react peace and happiness from within. Siddhartha decided to go on a quest to find true meaning of life and find happiness.
3. If Siddhartha never lived with Kamala and the people in the city would he have reached Enlightenment faster?
No , Siddhartha quest for enlightenment is acquired by experience , every person Siddhartha meet and every encounter he came across allowed to piece the together the puzzle of inner satisfaction.
4. What is the significance of the river?
The river was symbolic to the one living and learning through experience that one encounters as apposed through lesson taught by someone else. Personally the river gives one statement "Go with the flow".
8. Who is Vasudeva?
He is a ferryman that Siddhartha meet when he first began his journey. Vasudeva already has experienced what Siddhartha is beginning to see. Vasudeva serves as Siddhartha's spiritual guide throughout his journey.
10. Why does Siddhartha decide not to follow Buddha?
at the end of the story he runs into his old friend Govinda and he see that Govinda is getting old and has not reached the "complete oneness within" Siddhartha realizes that he the experience has been true teacher throughout life and has allowed him to reach "oneness at some point of his life" . Siddhartha has come to realization that Buddhism or any other teaching for that matter cannot teach one to be happy and be complete , experience on the other hand.
" I'm not kidding. I'm telling you what I've found. Knowledge can be conveyed, but not wisdom. It can be found, it can be lived, it is possible to be carried by it, miracles can be performed with it, but it cannot be expressed in words and taught."
Siddhartha states that the real important lessons in life are not learned from something or someone else. Wisdom as he calls it is learned through experience throughout life. I agree with this statement and if e everyone learned from others experience maybe life would not be as complex as it is now.
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