“You have done so by your own\n seeking in your own way, through thought, through meditation, through\n knowledge, through enlightenment. You have learned nothing through teachings,\n and so I think, O Illustrious One, that nobody finds salvation through teachings.\n To nobody, O Illustrious One, can you communicate in words and teachings,\n what happened to you in the hour of your enlightenment. The teachings of the\n enlightened Buddha embrace much, they teach much—how to live righteously, how\n to avoid evil. But there is one thing that this clear, worthy instruction\n does not contain; it does not contain the secret of what the Illustrious One\n himself experienced—he alone among hundreds of thousands.” \n
The story of a young Brahmin?s search for ultimate reality after meeting with the Buddha. Siddhartha is handsome, clever and well-loved, yet increasingly dissatisfied with the life that is expected of him. Setting out on a spiritual journey to discover a higher state of being, hisquest leads him through the temptations of luxury and wealth, the pleasures of sensual love and the sinister threat of death-dealing snakes, until, eventually, he comes to a river. There, a ferryman guides him towards his destiny and to the ultimate meaning of existence. Inspired by Hermann Hesse?s profound regard for Indian transcendental philosophy, Siddhartha is one of the most influential spiritual works of the twentieth century.
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