Resumo de Sidharta - Herman Hesse

Sidharta, the young son of a brahman, awakened everybody's admiration,
specially from his friend Govinda, because he practiced faithfully the
rites and sacrifices necessary to become a brahman. Nevertheless
he wasn't happy. One day dissapointed of the uselessness of the
control of his thoughts and sacrifices, he opted to join the ascetics
and live in the desert, becoming a samana. Govinda joined him and
they lived many years practicing absolute withdrawal from the
world. He learned to kill his desires, to control pain and
hunger. Little by little he annuled his senses to the point that
he didn't feel anything, in the process he realized he didn't achieve
anything, because he still couldn't kill the ego, because it always
came back to him. So he decided to leave with Govinda in search
for a higher wisdom, in the figure of Buda. When he found him he
realized he was a perfect man, but any lessons he could provide weren't
what he should learn, that essence he would have to seek for
himself. That's how he became his own master, and with this new
choice he abandoned the life he had known until then, but this time he
found himself alone, because his friend chose to follow Buda.
Sidartha carries on his own way in search of sensations, admiring all
that surrounds him, discovering a world he had not known until that
point. That's how he meets the courtesan Kamala, who tells him
that in order to reach her he must dress elegantly. He dedicates
himself to learn about commerce and becomes a rich merchant and Kamala
teaches him the arts of love. One day he realizes that his youth
desires remain behind, he feels dissapointed because with this life he
didn't find a greater wisdom either, and without knowing it he has
become in what he always despised and he feels trapped in an eternal
sansara. One day, tired of it all, he feels the voice of
his soul is dead and he decides to kill his body, but he hears the
magic Om in the river, and he rediscovers with the help of a humble
sailor the significance of the universe's unity. Later on he
reencounters Govinda, his old friend, who in spite of being an elder,
is still an eternal searcher who hasn't found anything. Govinda
asks him for advice, because Sidharta's fame has spread out, and he's
thougt of as a saint or a mistic. Sidharta tells his friend that
only when he stops searching he will find, only when he accepts simply
the path and destiny he will feel the liberating love and unity that
allow to feel joined to any kind of persons and the whole infinite
universe

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