Siddhartha By Kamala

Sai Baba once said “Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process.” In many religious literary works women are portrayed as sinners, they represent temptation, they are seductive, deceitful and only do things purely by self-interest. Men who fall for their tricks and games are just giving into their desires and sometimes it’s what has to be done in order to gain knowledge from what is unknown to them. In the novel Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse Kamala is Siddhartha’s doorway into lust, sin and greed. Don’t go confusing lust for love, lust doesn’t last
Kamala introduces Siddhartha to sin. Kamala is a lady of the evening, that right there is a huge sin, and by allowing Siddhartha to be a part of this she is making him sinful. “It has never been my experience that a Samana from the woods should come to me and desire to learn from me…. Many young men come to me, including Brahmins’ sons, but they come to me in fine clothes, in fine shoes; there is scent in their hairs and money in their purses…. “So Siddhartha is not good enough for you as he is, with oil in his hair, but without clothes, without shoes and without money!” Kamala laughed and said “No, he is not yet good enough.”” (Page 53-54)This makes Siddhartha want to acquire materialistic things to please her, and when you focus on money and what money can buy you become a sinner. Siddhartha did all this for kamala, therefore she has persuaded him to sin for her pleasure. “He was suddenly overwhelmed with a feeling of pride.”(Page 58) “The sin of pride is the sin of sins. It was this sin, we're told, which transformed Lucifer, an anointed cherub of God, the very "seal of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty," into Satan, the devil, the father of lies, the one for whom Hell itself was created. We're warned to guard our hearts against pride lest we too "fall into the same condemnation as the devil." (*) Siddhartha has never felt this way but now that he has begun to sin this feeling begins to arise in
“The years passed by. “Enveloped by comfortable circumstances, Siddhartha hardly noticed their passing. He had become rich.” (Page 75) As a newly rich man he was kind and always gave to those in need, but as timed passed he became greedy. What he had was no longer enough. “Slowly, like moister entering the dying tree trunk, slowly filling and rotting it, so did the world and inertia creep into Siddhartha’s soul;… Siddhartha had learn how to transact business affairs, to exercise power over people, to amuse himself with women; he had learn to wear fine clothes to command servants…” (Page 76-77) Not long after becoming rice he begins to change, he likes how power feels and he wants more, he no longer cares about ordinary people. “Loved this feeling and continually sought to renew it, to increase it, to stimulate it, for in this feeling alone did he experience some kind of happiness,” (Page 79) All he wants is to become more rich, all thanks to Kamala for she is the one who first introduces him to this life style, she made him want to have money in order to have her. But it is not long after that he realizes that being rich and having many pleasures bring him true happiness in his life, because deep down his heart is empty. “In vain did he try to sleep. His heart was so full of misery, he felt he could no longer endure it.” (Page 81) Siddhartha decides to leave town and by doing so leaving