Summary
In this section we find out who Siddartha is, where he lives and his life with the Brahmin. Soon we realize that he does not find fulfilment in his way of life and he goes live with the Samanas, people with no possessions that meditate and fast to achieve clearness in the mind. His friend Govinda follows him and after being Samanas for a while, Siddartha convinces Govinda that he is not satisfied and that he seeks knowledge. The Buddha gives his teachings and Govinda signs an oath to learn with the Buddha. Siddartha however is more skeptical and he says that what the Buddha nows he learned through a momment of enlightment, and that no matter what the Buddha experienced, he can't teach to others because one can only learn it through experience. He departs with Govinda and seeks his own moment of enlightenment.
I connected this story to any person with seek for self growth as to me; what Siddartha is going through seems perfectly normal. Siddartha is more analytical than others and here is where he finds himself achieving what he seeks. Govinda is very intelligent but he takes an impulsive launch into taking an oath for the Buddha. The story also reminded me of a friend I used to have, because of a different interest we never talked to each other again. (What happens with Govinda).
Section 2 Chapters 5-8
Summary
Siddartha seeks knowledge and comes to a river where he becomes friends with the ferryman. Siddartha tells the ferryman he has no money but the ferryman tells him it'll come back and that it was one thing he had learned from the river. He gets to a village where people avoid him. He meets a woman named Kamala and she invited him to have intercourse by stepping on his foot. He then learns she is a famous prostitute and he asks her to be his teacher in sexual healing. He first must get money and find proper clothes and when he does she hooks him up with a famous merchant and he proves a point that only knowing how to fast and meditate he could achieve what she thought was impossible with those abilities. When the merchant knows that Siddartha can read and write he offers him a job and shelter. Siddhartha visits Kamala daily and she instructs him in the physical act of love. Kamala tells him she wants a child. As the years go by and Siddhartha accrues more and more wealth, his Samana-like qualities begin to fade.They become replaced by more Material Girl-like qualities. He grows increasingly greedy, troubled by everyday problems, and unhappy. He feels trapped by pleasure, pain, and a sense of self-hatred. He falls drunk to sleep and has a dream in which he realizes that he is not happy with this new life and that all of his pleasures have worn off. He rage-quits on his curent life and abandons all possessions. We also find out that Kamala is pregnant with his child.Siddhartha heads for the forest, determined never to go back to his life of wealth.Siddhartha approaches the same river where he met the ferryman years before. He dreams about dropping and submerging himself into the water. He sees the water as mirroring the emptiness within him. About to slip into the water, the word "Om" emanates from his soul.Siddhartha realizes that destroying his body will not end his suffering, and he sits down. Thoroughly exhausted, he falls asleep. When he wakes up he notices someone behind him. He sees Govinda and tells him what has happened. Govinda leaves to get back to being a monk. He realizes that life as a Samana fueled his intellectual growth and arrogance, allowing him to thrive rather than to perish.
I conected the story to the song "Changed my mind" by e-dubble. In this song the author raps about how he woke up dead and he changed his mind and he wants to live. For Siddartha, he is tired and he is looking for knowledge, for a new life. In this Chapter Siddartha goes through many different positions; being a Brahmin, then a Samana with no possesions, a wealthy merchant and married man back to not knowing what he is. He goes through all of this just to know that he is still not happy with his life and that he has to take action, Siddartha has to find the knowledge that he is seeking, its not what the Samana teach, not what the Brahmin teach, not the art of love professed by Kamala, not what the Buddha preaches, its something else. He looks to change his life, its just he doesn't know how.
Uncensored Version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QBneZS1tS4
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