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I'm someone who is always skeptical when people say 'oh you must read *insert famous title here*' it's a brilliant story, a book everyone should read at least once.
siddhartha accepts his activities and experiences as continuous with his life as part of a timeless whole. He says the things he has learnt to do are “a temporary palliative against the pain and folly of life’.
It give an excellent look into humbleness and spirituallity. For those having, seeking or simply interested in, a spiritual and meditative outlook on life, this book is an essential read. Nice accompaniment / inspiration to a more serious study of the... Read More
As an adolescent, siddhartha joins an ascetic sect, the samanas. He realizes that not one samana will attain nirvana and neither will they. When he meets again his old friend govinda who has become a faithful disciple of the buddha.
Cons
This version is riddled with spelling mistakes, mistranslation, missing words and verbs in the wrong tenses. Moreover, the formatting is terrible - sentences often finish halfway across the kindle screen.
if time is not real, then the gap that seems to exist between the world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil is also an illusion.
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The product in itself came fast and as described
Although i don’t relate too much to buddhism i found the explanations at the back of the book really helpful to connect with th... Read More
Govinda becomes a follower but siddhartha after a conversation with the buddha wanders on his way looking for experiences rathe... Read More
In one of these parties was kamala who had become a buddhist had lived with the buddhists to whom she had presented her home
Packaging/appearance
Govinda was immediately won over and joined the sangha the buddha’s followers
Competitiveness
The content is what its worth buying for and its aboslutely an amazing one
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He needed to know whether there was another way than to press towards the self towards atman another way that was worth seeking
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Though he had learnt that the atman was to be found within the self suddenly his goal is to become empty of all desires and let the self die
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I perhaps agree that the self with a little “s” should die but not the self with a capital s
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He does such things as take a heron into his soul become a heron and die a heron’s death
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He goes into the corpse of a dead jackal becomes a skeleton and dust
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He realizes that not one samana will attain nirvana and neither will they
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