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Siddartha (Represents age 1-50)
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Brahmin
Siddhartha grew up as a Brahmin. He was wealthy and rich and above all else in his society. As he grew up he learned from his teachers. They taught him about religion. At first being knowledgeable about it all was enough, but then he began to hunger for more. No matter how much everyone looked up to him and was attracted to him, it just wasn’t enough. -
Sammana
Siddhartha was struck by the idea to go join the sammanas. They are the people of the forest. He joined them because he wanted to search for enlightenment and something to fill the empty void inside of him. He had to fight his father for it but eventually he was able to go. His best friend Govinda came with him, he was always his shadow. As a sammana he learned to fast, and extreme mind control. He learned to live wit out all things and just live in the wild. -
Gotama
Eventually word of a buddah reaches Siddhartha and Govinda. This news sparks interest in both of them, who are tiring of the sammana life. This is because Siddartha feels that emptiness inside of him still. When they go to hear his teachings (Eight fold Path). Govinda decides to pledge allegiance, but Siddartha thought he needed to find wisdom on his own. -
Realizations
After leaving his best friend, he has a moment where he does realize that all his longing is because he has been dependent on teachers. He has to learn things and come to realizations on his own to truly be at peace. Simply following someone else will not do. After this he comes to a river, and makes friends with the ferryman there. -
Kamala
Coming to a town Siddhartha views a beautiful woman. She is obviously rich and surrounded by many servants. He wants the woman to teach him about love, and approaches her about it. She meets with him, but tells him she wants pretty things, and Siddhartha to be dressed nicer before she will consider him. -
Life or a Game?
Because of Kamala wanting him to become a richer man she sets him up with a wealthy merchant in the town. As he begins working with him, he really starts to notice how the people of the world are. They are very dependent on little things, and tend to worry about the world of possessions. Siddhartha lives in this world, but views it as a game. He only is doing it because he wants to be with Kamala. -
Jaws of Life
As Siddhartha lives in this world he becomes trapped in it. The possessions of the world become important to him. Because money is so important to him now it makes him miserable. Slowly his life becomes grey and not happy at all. His goal to find enlightenment becomes forgotten. -
Finding Self Again
Siddhartha realizes that his life is horrible. He has lost his purpose and wants it back. Immediately he leaves the town and his old life. After he leaves Kamala finds out she is with a child, and Siddhartha is unaware. At the edge of the same river he thinks about killing himself. He is only stopped by the word “om” escaping his lips. He then feels revival, and goes to sleep only to wake up and feel like a new person. He wakes up to see his friend Govinda again who watched over him in his sleep -
Ferryman and the River
At the edge of the river Siddhartha finds the Ferryman again. With that he asks if he could apprentice him in his job. He then lives with the Ferryman, Vasudeva, and learns all about his job. As Siddhartha lives with Vasudeva he learns all about what makes this man so peaceful, how he is such a holly man. He learns all this from the river. It is one with many voices. He learns that there is not past or future but just a present with the river. It is always at the beginning and the end, and neve -
A Son
With the Buddha about to die Kamala decides she wants to go see him in her life time. She can’t leave her son so she goes to take him with her. She is bitten by a snake along the way and runs into Siddhartha and Vasudeva who try to help her. With that Siddartha finds he has a son and then Kamala dies. Now he has his son, and cares about him a ton. -
Runaway
His son is used to a life of luxury and the life he lives with Siddhartha is not what he likes. He is miserable living on such little. He always fights and is defiant. Still Siddhartha tries to keep him there. Eventually he runs away, and Siddhartha wants to go after him. Vasudeva talks him out of it because he shows him how it is wrong. Siddhartha wants to protect him from the world but Vasudeva shows him that he has to let his son make his own mistakes and grow up on his own. Something he hims -
Govinda
Vasudeva, dies a peaceful death, and in Siddhartha’s eyes he dies knowing everything. After he died his friend Govinda came to see him after a long time apart. There he asks what his secret to peaceful living was. How did Siddhartha become a man of religion? Siddhartha tries to explain it, but basically says people’s actions are better than words, and wisdom can’t be expressed in words. That is because words only express one side of things and there are two truths to it all.
