Essay About Siddhartha

Learning through Experience
Filled with eye-opening and complex ideas, Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse highlights the life of a man striving to achieve peace and enlightenment. Starting out as a boy, Siddhartha started as a Brahman, to a Samana, to a merchant, and finally to a ferryman. Many life lessons can be uncovered from the life of Siddhartha. Blazoned through the journey of Siddhartha, SIddhartha learns the life lessons of being grateful, learning from oneself and past mistakes, and learning how to listen.
Clearly revealed through his life, Siddhartha learns how to be grateful for what he had. Most of his life, he was evidently searching for nirvana and enlightenment. However, he was never truly satisfied with his life as a Brahman, Samana, or a merchant. When he was a Brahman, Siddhartha’s “soul was not content, [his] soul was not calm, [and his] heart was not satisfied. When Siddhartha was a Samana, he knew that he could not reach enlightenment through the teachings of the Samanas. All the teachings were vapid, and SIddhartha had already learned everything. After his life of a Samana, he became a merchant and was lost in the materialistic world. The lifestyle of the childlike people left him jaded. It was not until he met Vasudeva and learned from the river that he
Nearing the end of his life and arriving at an old age, Siddhartha was able to learn three life lessons. Siddhartha learned to be grateful for what he had through his life and mainly through his son. He learned from himself and his mistakes from his life as a Samana and as a merchant. Finally, he learned how to listen and was able to hear the sacred Om. What all three of the lessons have in common was experience. Siddhartha had to go out into the world and experience multiple aspects in life in order to grasp and learn the different life lesson. As a final note, each life lesson can be seen and applied to the real