An Analysis Of Siddhartha's Beliefs In World Literature

Siddhartha’s Beliefs World literature is filled with all kinds of stories about heroes and villains. Some of those stories that I liked in World Literature were Another Evening at the Club, Night, and Siddhartha. Siddhartha is about a man named Siddhartha whose sole mission in life was to become enlightened. Siddhartha achieved enlightenment by learning three things. Siddhartha learned that time does not exist, wisdom cannot be taught, and suffering goes with love but leads to enlightenment. These ideas are relevant to anyone’s life because they can help one find enlightenment. In the book Siddhartha, Siddhartha learned that time does not exist. “That it is,” said Siddhartha. “And when I learned it, I looked at my life, and it was also
a river, and the boy Siddhartha was only separated from the man Siddhartha and from the old man Siddhartha by a shadow, not by something real. Also, Siddhartha’s previous births were no past, and his death and his return to Brahma was no future. Nothing was, nothing will be; everything has existence is present.” This quote can relate to the saying ‘to live in the moment.’ If you give up worrying about the past and future and take a moment to realize what is going on in the present, you enjoy and appreciate all of the excitement of right now. Siddhartha lived in the present and therefore became enlightened. Hopefully, if we live in the present and realize that time does not exist then we can become happier. In addition, Siddhartha learned that knowledge can be taught, but wisdom cannot. “I’m telling what I’ve found,” said Siddhartha. “Knowledge can be conveyed, but not wisdom. It can be found, it can be lived, it is possible to be carried by it, miracles can be performed with it, but it cannot be expressed in words and taught.” This means that you cannot learn wisdom in a class room or from a teacher; you have to go out and experience it. Knowledge and rules teach us what we can do, but its wisdom that decides whether or not we should. Siddhartha teaches us that we should go out and experience the world. Finally in Siddhartha, Siddhartha learned that suffering goes with love but leads to enlightenment. “His wound blossomed, his suffering was shining, his self had flown into the oneness. In this hour, Siddhartha stopped fighting his fate, stopped suffering. On his face flourished the cheerfulness of a knowledge…” This shows that some of life’s happiest moments come from extreme suffering. Sometimes in the mist of tragedy, one finds great love, great courage, or great compassion. Suffering is just a part of life that eventually ends in joy. Siddhartha believed that time does not exist, wisdom cannot by taught, and suffering goes with love but leads to enlightenment. These ideas are relevant to anyone’s life because they can help one find contentment. Siddhartha had to learn these things throughout his life. However, we know this information, so why not go and achieve enlightenment now? That is because you need wisdom, and wisdom evolves over a lifetime of experience. When you are young you are taught to memorize facts, as you grow to adulthood you realize that things aren’t always black and white or true or false but require critical thinking and judgment, and that is where wisdom is born. Enlighten might take a long time, so right now I am just going to focus on making it through World Literature.