Percy Bysshe Shelley's 'Siddhartha'

3. Siddhartha was hanging out with Govinda, but he feels dissatisfied. He performs all the rituals in his religion and he does everything that will apparently help him bring happiness and peace but he still feels something is missing. His dad and the other people still haven’t been able to achieve enlightenment. He feels that staying with them won’t help because he still has doubts about the nature of his existence. He believes his father has already passed on all the wisdom their community has to offer but he still is in need for something more.

5. The meaning of Siddhartha's dream is his love for Govinda. He has a great deal of love for him because he dreamed about him being a woman. This implies that he would make the perfect woman if
he was that. This dream symbolizes love-making because later it becomes symbolic when Siddhartha meets a woman name Kamala who teaches him how to love and does everything he has to, to please her. He goes from never having any relations with a woman to practicing the art of love on a daily.

11. Vasudeva leaves Siddhartha because he says he has been a ferryman for too long now and he wants to go to the forest. He wants to be in the oneness and be in peace. He decided to go to the woods which he later dies and he meets enlightenment.