From Siddhartha's Journey To Enlightenment

Siddhartha was grown into the Brahmin tradition as a child. Causing him to begin being curious about the nature of where he came from. “Siddhartha had one goal-to become empty, to become of thirst, desire, dreams, pleasure and sorrow…” this goal carried on throughout the book for him to achieve his journey onto enlightenment (page 14). He never saw Gotama as a teacher, believing that true enlightenment cannot be taught. Gotama, the religious leader, also as the Buddha, he is known to already have reached Nirvana. During his mission to reach enlightenment, Siddhartha had many different paths of wisdom taken to meet his goal. In the chapter “The Brahmins”, Siddhartha is still managing to seek the meaning of life as he moves his journey on to his enlightenment, he begins to “meditate to the syllable of Om”(page 3). He understands the meaning of “Om” reciting the verse, “Om is the bow, the arrow is the soul, Brahman is the arrow’s goal. At which one aims unflinchingly,” but does not quite merge into it. Later he decides that he has not reached enlightenment causing him to take a path moving him far from home (page 8). At the end of the chapter, he leaves his father deciding to go along with the Samanas, to begin the journey in different spiritual goals to reach the one

An aspect that also foreshadowed the events was, when Siddhartha decided to leave his father to follow the Samans, foreshadows Siddhartha’s loss of his son in the future. He believed he will reach enlightenment, and he did. Through the obstacles of leaving his father, Kamala’s death by a snake, as well as his son leaving him all allowed him to come to the point of learning. Enlightenment is all perceived and viewed in different ways. If Siddhartha had not taken all those paths and learned from those mistakes, he would not have reached Nirvana or been able to guide those who needed