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Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse: A Journey to Enlightenment and Self-Discovery
Embark on a transformative quest for enlightenment with Siddhartha as Hermann Hesse crafts a timeless tale of self-discovery.Siddhartha by Hermann Embark on a profound journey of self-discovery and enlightenment with the bestseller book "Siddhartha" by the revered author Hermann Hesse. In this timeless novel, readers follow the titular character, Siddhartha, as he navigates a path of spiritual exploration and seeks to uncover the ultimate truths of existence.
Hesse's evocative prose and exploration of Eastern philosophy and spirituality offer readers a transformative narrative that resonates with themes of identity, enlightenment, and the quest for inner peace. "Siddhartha" stands as a testament to the human desire to understand the nature of life and the soul's journey towards self-realization.
Hermann Hesse, a Nobel Prize-winning author and philosopher, penned "Siddhartha" to explore the spiritual and philosophical journey of an individual seeking enlightenment. His ability to weave introspective narratives and engage with profound themes has earned him a place among the most influential literary figures.
Embark on a profound journey of self-discovery and enlightenment with the timeless classic "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse. This bestseller transcends the boundaries of time, guiding readers through the spiritual odyssey of Siddhartha, a young man on a quest for meaning and purpose.
Set against the backdrop of ancient India, join Siddhartha as he navigates the river of life, seeking wisdom and transcending the material world. Hesse's poetic prose and philosophical insights create a narrative that resonates with the universal search for identity and enlightenment.As you delve into the pages of this literary masterpiece, experience the transformative power of self-discovery and the profound lessons Siddhartha learns on his journey. Hesse's exploration of Eastern philosophy and spirituality captivates the mind and nourishes the soul.
But here's the contemplative Can Siddhartha's quest for enlightenment inspire your own journey of self-discovery? Is there a universal wisdom in the pages of this bestseller that transcends cultural and temporal boundaries?In a narrative that unfolds like a sacred parable, "Siddhartha" invites readers to reflect on their own paths and the pursuit of a meaningful existence. The book becomes a mirror, encouraging introspection and a deeper connection with the profound truths of life.
So, are you ready to embark on a quest for self-discovery and enlightenment? "Siddhartha" is not just a bestseller; it's a guide to understanding the mysteries of existence and finding your own path to fulfillment.Take the first step. Immerse yourself in the profound teachings of "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse. Let the
Hesse's evocative prose and exploration of Eastern philosophy and spirituality offer readers a transformative narrative that resonates with themes of identity, enlightenment, and the quest for inner peace. "Siddhartha" stands as a testament to the human desire to understand the nature of life and the soul's journey towards self-realization.
Hermann Hesse, a Nobel Prize-winning author and philosopher, penned "Siddhartha" to explore the spiritual and philosophical journey of an individual seeking enlightenment. His ability to weave introspective narratives and engage with profound themes has earned him a place among the most influential literary figures.
Embark on a profound journey of self-discovery and enlightenment with the timeless classic "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse. This bestseller transcends the boundaries of time, guiding readers through the spiritual odyssey of Siddhartha, a young man on a quest for meaning and purpose.
Set against the backdrop of ancient India, join Siddhartha as he navigates the river of life, seeking wisdom and transcending the material world. Hesse's poetic prose and philosophical insights create a narrative that resonates with the universal search for identity and enlightenment.As you delve into the pages of this literary masterpiece, experience the transformative power of self-discovery and the profound lessons Siddhartha learns on his journey. Hesse's exploration of Eastern philosophy and spirituality captivates the mind and nourishes the soul.
But here's the contemplative Can Siddhartha's quest for enlightenment inspire your own journey of self-discovery? Is there a universal wisdom in the pages of this bestseller that transcends cultural and temporal boundaries?In a narrative that unfolds like a sacred parable, "Siddhartha" invites readers to reflect on their own paths and the pursuit of a meaningful existence. The book becomes a mirror, encouraging introspection and a deeper connection with the profound truths of life.
So, are you ready to embark on a quest for self-discovery and enlightenment? "Siddhartha" is not just a bestseller; it's a guide to understanding the mysteries of existence and finding your own path to fulfillment.Take the first step. Immerse yourself in the profound teachings of "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse. Let the
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July 12, 2025
Siddhartha by Herman Hesse, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, divine author of Glasperlenspiel aka The Glass Beads Game – my note on this is at https://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/...
10 out of 10
“Time. Time. What is time? Swiss manufacture it, French hoard it, Italians squander it, Americans say it is money. Hindus say it does not exist. Know what I say? I say time is a crook.” This is attributed to Truman Capote and it came to my mind because of the Hindu say it does not exist part, which appears in this magnum opus
It is interesting to find that Herman Hesse has three books on the 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read, the aforementioned Glasperlenspiel, Steppenwolf https://realini.blogspot.com/2020/09/... and Narziss and Goldmund, but not Siddhartha, which seems to be the best known work of his
Indeed, I plan to read Narciss and Goldmund again, for I remember it was such a delight when taken the first time, I was about twenty-five – so we are talking about some 35 years ago – and could not leave the book, I even took it at the sauna, and that was in Austria, if I remember well, and there were naked women within
That is the way over there, here there are men who protest if the males do not have something on at the…sauna, few, admittedly, but still, it shows such a difference of attitude, albeit I have read in The Economist that nudity on the beaches and elsewhere is losing its appeal, in what were once bastions with nude beaches
Narciss and Goldmund https://realini.blogspot.com/2020/09/... has some aspects that we find in Siddhartha, most importantly, the friendship between men, mainly Siddhartha and Govinda, but we should also include Vasudeva, although the latter is seen as a saint, ultimately
‘The word Siddhartha is made up of two words in the Sanskrit language: siddha (achieved) + artha (what was searched for), which together means "he who has found meaning (of existence)" or "he who has attained his goals" which is very interesting, and I see two features here, one, how he talked about seeking
Govinda was a seeker, but Gotama tells him that he may be too fervent, obsessed with this seeking, and that reminds me of Harvard Professor Tal Ben Shahar https://realini.blogspot.com/2016/04/... who spoke in his positive psychology lectures, the most popular in the history of Harvard about the road
The rat race is the trap on which we climb, we learn in school because we want good grades, then for exams, which are for admittance in a good university, which is for a good job, in which we work for promotions, but without enjoying it, and thus missing the point, seeking an illusion aka maya the world with its distractions
We have to enjoy the journey, positive psychology demonstrates and Siddhartha has said millennia ago – in the first place, he is a privileged, rich son of a brahmin, and all the pain of the world is hidden from him, until he has the chance to see it, and then he decides to leave his home, wife and family and become an ascetic
His father is against this project, and later on, Gotama will remember this, as he faces his own son, and his tantrums, the rejection that Freud https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/20... will translate into the desire to kill your father, the Oedipus Complex, which includes the wish to copulate with the mother
Siddhartha leaves with his friend, Govinda, and they join the Enlighted one, Gautama, the famous Buddha, by the way, as far as I knew it, we reach Nirvana when we have no more cravings, we desire for nothing more, or as the ascetics, hermits, and especially the stoics would insist ‘wish for what you already have’
It is interesting that one of the most prominent, outstanding Stoics was Seneca https://realini.blogspot.com/2023/09/... and he was also one of the richest men of his time (actually, of all time, because we have to put things in perspective) and preached abstinence
We could see this as either the wealthy teaching the rest how good it is to ignore fortune, easy to say when you have so much, or, he was one who knew what he was talking about, and then again, this piece of wisdom was confirmed in our time, when psychology has looked at what happens when we get rich and win money
I would first say look at Elon musk, Orange Jesus and other such clowns and monsters, the list is long, and it includes tyrants in dictatorships, those who basically have power over all that that poor state has, Putin, Kim of north Korea, but getting back, there is a fabulous classic of psychology called Stumbling On Happiness
Daniel Gilbert https://realini.blogspot.com/2013/06/... looks at the myths of happiness and we also learn about lottery winners, those who get one million over night, and then they just experience Hedonic Adaptation, in other words, Siddhartha, the Buddha and the Stoics were right
Siddhartha tries to experience the normal life, meets Kamala – interesting how this is the name of a prostitute in the narrative -and she wants him to get nice clothes, shoes, gifts, and then she will teach him what she knows…
Now for my standard closing of the note with a question, and invitation – maybe you have a good idea on how we could make more than a million dollars with this http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/02/u... – as it is, this is a unique technique, which we could promote, sell, open the Oscars show with or something and then make lots of money together, if you have the how, I have the product, I just do not know how to get the befits from it, other than the exercise per se
There is also the small matter of working for AT&T – this huge company asked me to be its Representative for Romania and Bulgaria, on the Calling Card side, which meant sailing into the Black Sea wo meet the US Navy ships, travelling to Sofia, a lot of activity, using my mother’s two bedrooms flat as office and warehouse, all for the grand total of $250, raised after a lot of persuasion to the staggering $400…with retirement ahead, there are no benefits, nothing…it is a longer story, but if you can help get the mastodont to pay some dues, or have an idea how it can happen, let me know
As for my role in the Revolution that killed Ceausescu, a smaller Mao, there it is http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/r...
Some favorite quotes from To The Hermitage and other works
‘Fiction is infinitely preferable to real life...As long as you avoid the books of Kafka or Beckett, the everlasting plot of fiction has fewer futile experiences than the careless plot of reality...Fiction's people are fuller, deeper, cleverer, more moving than those in real life…Its actions are more intricate, illuminating, noble, profound…There are many more dramas, climaxes, romantic fulfillment, twists, turns, gratified resolutions…Unlike reality, all of this you can experience without leaving the house or even getting out of bed…What's more, books are a form of intelligent human greatness, as stories are a higher order of sense…As random life is to destiny, so stories are to great authors, who provided us with some of the highest pleasures and the most wonderful mystifications we can find…Few stories are greater than Anna Karenina, that wise epic by an often foolish author…’
‚Parturiunt montes, nascetur ridiculus mus’
“From Monty Python - The Meaning of Life...Well, it's nothing very special...Try and be nice to people, avoid eating fat, read a good book every now and then, get some walking in, and try and live together in peace and harmony with people of all creeds and nations.”
10 out of 10
“Time. Time. What is time? Swiss manufacture it, French hoard it, Italians squander it, Americans say it is money. Hindus say it does not exist. Know what I say? I say time is a crook.” This is attributed to Truman Capote and it came to my mind because of the Hindu say it does not exist part, which appears in this magnum opus
It is interesting to find that Herman Hesse has three books on the 1,000 Novels Everyone Must Read, the aforementioned Glasperlenspiel, Steppenwolf https://realini.blogspot.com/2020/09/... and Narziss and Goldmund, but not Siddhartha, which seems to be the best known work of his
Indeed, I plan to read Narciss and Goldmund again, for I remember it was such a delight when taken the first time, I was about twenty-five – so we are talking about some 35 years ago – and could not leave the book, I even took it at the sauna, and that was in Austria, if I remember well, and there were naked women within
That is the way over there, here there are men who protest if the males do not have something on at the…sauna, few, admittedly, but still, it shows such a difference of attitude, albeit I have read in The Economist that nudity on the beaches and elsewhere is losing its appeal, in what were once bastions with nude beaches
Narciss and Goldmund https://realini.blogspot.com/2020/09/... has some aspects that we find in Siddhartha, most importantly, the friendship between men, mainly Siddhartha and Govinda, but we should also include Vasudeva, although the latter is seen as a saint, ultimately
‘The word Siddhartha is made up of two words in the Sanskrit language: siddha (achieved) + artha (what was searched for), which together means "he who has found meaning (of existence)" or "he who has attained his goals" which is very interesting, and I see two features here, one, how he talked about seeking
Govinda was a seeker, but Gotama tells him that he may be too fervent, obsessed with this seeking, and that reminds me of Harvard Professor Tal Ben Shahar https://realini.blogspot.com/2016/04/... who spoke in his positive psychology lectures, the most popular in the history of Harvard about the road
The rat race is the trap on which we climb, we learn in school because we want good grades, then for exams, which are for admittance in a good university, which is for a good job, in which we work for promotions, but without enjoying it, and thus missing the point, seeking an illusion aka maya the world with its distractions
We have to enjoy the journey, positive psychology demonstrates and Siddhartha has said millennia ago – in the first place, he is a privileged, rich son of a brahmin, and all the pain of the world is hidden from him, until he has the chance to see it, and then he decides to leave his home, wife and family and become an ascetic
His father is against this project, and later on, Gotama will remember this, as he faces his own son, and his tantrums, the rejection that Freud https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/20... will translate into the desire to kill your father, the Oedipus Complex, which includes the wish to copulate with the mother
Siddhartha leaves with his friend, Govinda, and they join the Enlighted one, Gautama, the famous Buddha, by the way, as far as I knew it, we reach Nirvana when we have no more cravings, we desire for nothing more, or as the ascetics, hermits, and especially the stoics would insist ‘wish for what you already have’
It is interesting that one of the most prominent, outstanding Stoics was Seneca https://realini.blogspot.com/2023/09/... and he was also one of the richest men of his time (actually, of all time, because we have to put things in perspective) and preached abstinence
We could see this as either the wealthy teaching the rest how good it is to ignore fortune, easy to say when you have so much, or, he was one who knew what he was talking about, and then again, this piece of wisdom was confirmed in our time, when psychology has looked at what happens when we get rich and win money
I would first say look at Elon musk, Orange Jesus and other such clowns and monsters, the list is long, and it includes tyrants in dictatorships, those who basically have power over all that that poor state has, Putin, Kim of north Korea, but getting back, there is a fabulous classic of psychology called Stumbling On Happiness
Daniel Gilbert https://realini.blogspot.com/2013/06/... looks at the myths of happiness and we also learn about lottery winners, those who get one million over night, and then they just experience Hedonic Adaptation, in other words, Siddhartha, the Buddha and the Stoics were right
Siddhartha tries to experience the normal life, meets Kamala – interesting how this is the name of a prostitute in the narrative -and she wants him to get nice clothes, shoes, gifts, and then she will teach him what she knows…
Now for my standard closing of the note with a question, and invitation – maybe you have a good idea on how we could make more than a million dollars with this http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/02/u... – as it is, this is a unique technique, which we could promote, sell, open the Oscars show with or something and then make lots of money together, if you have the how, I have the product, I just do not know how to get the befits from it, other than the exercise per se
There is also the small matter of working for AT&T – this huge company asked me to be its Representative for Romania and Bulgaria, on the Calling Card side, which meant sailing into the Black Sea wo meet the US Navy ships, travelling to Sofia, a lot of activity, using my mother’s two bedrooms flat as office and warehouse, all for the grand total of $250, raised after a lot of persuasion to the staggering $400…with retirement ahead, there are no benefits, nothing…it is a longer story, but if you can help get the mastodont to pay some dues, or have an idea how it can happen, let me know
As for my role in the Revolution that killed Ceausescu, a smaller Mao, there it is http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/r...
Some favorite quotes from To The Hermitage and other works
‘Fiction is infinitely preferable to real life...As long as you avoid the books of Kafka or Beckett, the everlasting plot of fiction has fewer futile experiences than the careless plot of reality...Fiction's people are fuller, deeper, cleverer, more moving than those in real life…Its actions are more intricate, illuminating, noble, profound…There are many more dramas, climaxes, romantic fulfillment, twists, turns, gratified resolutions…Unlike reality, all of this you can experience without leaving the house or even getting out of bed…What's more, books are a form of intelligent human greatness, as stories are a higher order of sense…As random life is to destiny, so stories are to great authors, who provided us with some of the highest pleasures and the most wonderful mystifications we can find…Few stories are greater than Anna Karenina, that wise epic by an often foolish author…’
‚Parturiunt montes, nascetur ridiculus mus’
“From Monty Python - The Meaning of Life...Well, it's nothing very special...Try and be nice to people, avoid eating fat, read a good book every now and then, get some walking in, and try and live together in peace and harmony with people of all creeds and nations.”
April 11, 2025
This is a story of a man is India who searches for the meaning of life. I read it because it is a classic, but this is not a story that interests me.
Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
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