Siddhartha, in short, was a purposefully long winded way of describing the trials one must face if they truly care about something that love. In this case, our hero, Siddhartha, was searching for the one true thing his and so many other lineages have sought out for centuries: enlightenment, a method of reaching Nirvana.
As most of you probably know, living by Bhuddism means that, when you die, you will be reincarnated whenever you die. Depending on how you live the life you are given is what your next life will contain. A man who has lied, cheat, or stolen in one life, will enter the next as a sickly dog on the streets. On the other hand, if that sickly dog on the street lives a life of helping his fellow street rat, he will be reincarnated as a man of low social standing, only to continue this chain until one has done enough good in his life to finally be at rest, to stop this grueling process of dying and reviving as another being to reach Nirvana.
Siddhartha, our main hero, is a young son of a Brahmin in the land of Bhuddism. All his life, he had followed his father in praying, sacrificing, and giving undying worship to their gods. However, Siddhartha finds skepticism in these elongated practices. Why had no Brahmin ever reached Nirvana, despite these teachings? Why has one never devoted enough of their life, enough of their will and enough of their body to finally reach the goal that they had sought after for so long? Coming to this realization after being taught what Bhuddism was truly based upon, he sets on a journey through personal exile to rid of himself, to clear his mind and his body enough to go where no other Brahmin had gone before, and to finally achieve what generations before him had tried through repeated methods and failed: enlightenment.
As most of you probably know, living by Bhuddism means that, when you die, you will be reincarnated whenever you die. Depending on how you live the life you are given is what your next life will contain. A man who has lied, cheat, or stolen in one life, will enter the next as a sickly dog on the streets. On the other hand, if that sickly dog on the street lives a life of helping his fellow street rat, he will be reincarnated as a man of low social standing, only to continue this chain until one has done enough good in his life to finally be at rest, to stop this grueling process of dying and reviving as another being to reach Nirvana.
Siddhartha, our main hero, is a young son of a Brahmin in the land of Bhuddism. All his life, he had followed his father in praying, sacrificing, and giving undying worship to their gods. However, Siddhartha finds skepticism in these elongated practices. Why had no Brahmin ever reached Nirvana, despite these teachings? Why has one never devoted enough of their life, enough of their will and enough of their body to finally reach the goal that they had sought after for so long? Coming to this realization after being taught what Bhuddism was truly based upon, he sets on a journey through personal exile to rid of himself, to clear his mind and his body enough to go where no other Brahmin had gone before, and to finally achieve what generations before him had tried through repeated methods and failed: enlightenment.