Resumo de Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse

Siddhartha provides an enriching and elevating spiritual experience. While reading the fable and the holy journey of Siddhartha, as a reader one starts relating to him. The questions and doubts raised by Siddhartha makes one realize that they are the queries & uncertainties each one of us come across during the voyage of life which is bedecked & ornamented with several ups and downs. Its an involving story in which Siddhartha is a seeker through the vagaries of life like any ordinary human being, with the only difference being that some people realize this quest in the early days of life while others contemplate it and ponder over it during the last days of existence. Siddhartha?s life is analogous to that of any father who intends to realize and fulfill the social responsibilities of raising the children in an appropriate manner like any other father but desires to understand the real objective of this continuation on this earth, the actual and true concept of life and the life after death. Hermann Hesse has used the same name i.e of Gautam Buddha which was Siddhartha. "Siddhartha" means "he who has attained his goals" or "he who is victorious." The Buddha's name, before his renunciation, was Prince Siddhartha, and later Gautama Buddha. But through Siddhartha he has narrated a different life story, different life graph such that one is shown to have attained the truth and other is still seeking it with different realizations. The most interesting part of the book is the interaction between Buddha and Siddhartha in which Siddhartha tells Buddha that though he has found salvation from death but it has come to him in the course of his own search, on his own path, through thoughts, through meditation, through realizations, through enlightenment. It has not come to him by means of teachings and nobody will obtain salvation by means of teachings. He cannot convey it to anyone through teachings what has happened to him in the hour of enlightenment. The teachings do not and cannot contain the mystery of what the exalted one has experienced for himself. Thus realizing it declares to continue his journey and depart form all the teachings and draw his own graph of life. Hesse has made Siddhartha walk away from the Buddha, not to point out a flaw in his teachings, but to clearly exemplify the flawlessness of the Dharma, while drawing attention to the necessary self-contradictory nature of attempting to teach the Dharma. The Dharma is perfect knowledge, which can lead to perfect wisdom, but not through the teachings of anyone else, including. Asimov has also used this technique to great effect in his portrait of Foundation and Empire's villain ?The Mule?. Little is known or revealed about the mutant until the last chapter, when all the hints coalesce into one of the great villainous perorations in literature; surpassing that of many arch-villains in thrillers and detective novels. The Mule, like Siddhartha, is sketched in great detail by all that is left out when key points are made. At the end I feel that hesse?s has made an effort to communicate the message that knowledge can be shared but not the wisdom. It?s not communicable and it can be attained through the personal experiences that go beyond this world and requires you to communicate with something that exists but cannot be seen!

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