Siddartha - By: Herman Hesse

The Story of Siddartha's spiritual quest for answering 'The question' and reaching Nirvana. Moving from attempting to neglect and defeat the self, into realizing its significance and then reaching Wisdom and understanding that truth has many faces and that the answer is not really an answer but a state of mind and a higher awareness.

The Son of a brahmin, he decides to become a samana, who lives in the wood, doesnt work and spends all his time meditating. He meets the Buddha and realizes that Teachers can't actually teach him. He looks at people as childish because of their emotional nature and the desires that control them. His journey later takes him to the world of flesh, physical love and trading (money). This disgusts him after many years and he escapes this life. He reaches an awareness of the importance of the 'emotional', and a river ( VERY SIMPLY ) helps him realize what time and teachers and quests couldnt.

A beautiful journey of search for the self and for the Nirvana and the meaning of life.. Fascinating resemblance between the message conveyed and Hesse's amazing Romantic (Neo-Romantic) writing style.