How Is Siddhartha Successful

Andrew Carnegie like many of entrepreneurs during this time period grew up poor and was forced to work at an early age to help his family survive difficult times. At the age of 12, he began working for the railroad industry where he met his mentor Tom Scott. Scott thought so highly of Carnegie at the age of 15 Scott hired him as his personal assistant. The partnership/friendship continued to blossom at the age of 24 Carnegie is the manager of Pennsylvania Railroad.

Their journey as samanas and students in the stages of life leads them to questioning the path that they were following. Although, Siddhartha did learn and become much more knowledgeable after knowing the teachings from the samanas, he didn’t quite agree with their beliefs in retaining enlightenment. "[Siddhartha] is drawn by his goal, for he does not allow anything to enter his mind which opposes his goal. That is what Siddhartha learned from the Samanas. It is what fools call magic and what they think is caused by demons...there are no demons...everyone can reach his goal if he can think, wait, and fast." With this new found attitude Siddhartha sets out once again, with many new experiences and lessons waiting ahead for him.

Siddhartha becomes a rich man and soon loses his desire to search for Nirvana.  Along with Kamala, a man named Kamaswami influences Siddhartha.  He convinces Siddhartha that material possessions can "fill" his life.  Siddhartha takes the advice, and he begins to live his life for money.  He starts to gamble and to compromise his true beliefs for material pleasure. While living in the village, Siddhartha slips into a deep depression.  He feels that he has lost a part of his soul, and he attempts to commit suicide.  However, during this attempt, Siddhartha becomes reborn and longs once again for Nirvana (http://splavc.spjc.cc.fl.us/hooks/ew/SmithSidd.html).  At this time, Siddhartha meets a ferryman named Vasudeva.  Vasudeva fascinates Siddhartha the way Buddha did (Welch 71).  Vasudeva tells Siddhartha that the way to find inner peace is by listening to the river.  He also tells Siddhartha that the river will teach him two things; however, Siddhartha must learn these things on his own.  Siddhartha's relationship with the ferryman is the key for Siddhartha to reach Nirvana.  Eventually, Siddhartha takes the place of Vasudeva as ferryman, and he soon attains

Success can mean different things to different people. The definition of success can change for a person at different stages of their life. A person's culture, family, friends, experiences, and environment can be a big influence on defining what success is to that individual. We all hear the stories of people failing and failing until one day they make it to the top, beat the bad guy or pass the trial. The story can also go that they got all they desired or raised up from the ashes. All of these have one thing in common, it is at the end of the story. It's never the beginning or middle. It's always at the end of the story that the person succeeds in their quest. But why does it have to be at the end? Simply, like how there is no good without evil. You can not have succeed without struggling and failing first.

The essential of Gandhi is anthology of his life. It is separated into two parts. One as Gandhi the man and the other as the Mahatma meaning Great Soul. I was very much well interested in the readings of The Essential Gandhi. What I was most interested in was that he spoke with so much determination and compassion. His firm belief in nonviolence was presented very strongly. “I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent. Gandhi believed strongly in non-violent civil disobedience, so he states that violence provides only temporary relief or satisfaction, but the pain it causes people and societies is much greater. There is so much violence in the world today and some believe you have to fight violence with violence but Gandhi was very successful with his method of not acting upon violence in such of as in a hatred way. He solely helped India become independent with his method of nonviolence. Before I read this story I knew very little details of him, but the main thing that always puzzled me, what gave Gandhi the courage to make such a difference in the world?

There have been many teachers in one’s lifetime, some more important than others. These teachers and instructors affect different people in different ways, and lessons are learned that are important to prepare for real life situations. In the book Siddhartha by Herman Hesse, a young Brahmin named Siddhartha is not content with his current spiritual self. Siddhartha is directed to spiritual enlightenment and Nirvana because of his guidance and teaching from Kamala, Kamaswami, and Vasudeva.

As Siddhartha learns how to rid his self he begins to defeat all of his desires. “His wound was healing, his pain was dispersing; his Self had merged into unity.” (111) Siddhartha successfully achieves enlightenment and nirvana with his friend Vasudeva. Coincidentally after many years the path of Govinda and Siddhartha align and Govinda finds himself not far from where he began in his goal to attain

Siddhartha advised Govinda that he was focused so much on the search that he could not find what he was searching for. Siddhartha explained his belief that wisdom could not be communicated. Siddhartha explained his distrust of doctrines, since they did not make one enlightened. However, Govinda still analyzed the world as a student. Siddhartha overturned Buddha's doctrine and explained that love was the most important thing to have in the world. Siddhartha also explained how time was just an illusion through the use of different examples of oxymorons. He went on saying that many of the opposites in the world existed in perfect harmony because they were more similar than they were different. Govinda still did not understand because he had not

Siddhartha shares many teachings he has learned with Govinda. Siddhartha holds up a stone in example, showing that one thing is enfolded in the past, present, and future. He also stated that language is only a device, and that wisdom is not communicable. This means that, through experience, wisdom is attainable, but if you trying to teach enlightenment, the meaning will not be fully appreciated to whom it is taught.

The nineteenth century was a time of progress for the United States, a time when a free-enterprise economy ruled the industrial sector. It was also the time when one of the greatest entrepreneurs achieved dominance, Andrew Carnegie. A captain of industry, Carnegie built and ran his a steel company in Pennsylvania. The free enterprise system was both necessary and conducive to Andrew Carnegie's success. It gave him freedom to make his own economic decisions, such as where to work and how to treat workers.

The two boys leave the town to join the Samanas, a group of people who believe that spiritual enlightenment comes with the rejection of body and all other needs. The boys quickly realize that their ideas of the group are very different, Govinda loves the way that improvements that he has gained spiritually and morally. While Siddhartha has yet to reach the spiritual enlightenment that he wishes to achieve. “Siddhartha learned a great deal from the Samanas; he learned many ways of losing the Self. He traveled along the path of self-denial through pain, through voluntary suffering and conquering of pain, through hunger, thirst and fatigue. He traveled the way of self-denial through meditation, through the emptying of the mind through all images. Along these and other paths did he learn to travel. He lost his Self a thousand

Siddhartha resolved that he would first go to the Samanas, ascetics that hard lives of self-denial of all comforts and pleasures in order to rid themselves of desire and those emotions that would hinder them on the journey to discovering Atman. Although joining these extremist monks was a high ambition, Siddhartha knew that he would succeed as a Samana, for he believed that the path of the ascetic would aid him on his journey of self-discovery. As his time with the Samanas lengthened, Siddhartha began to take pride in the knowledge that he was not blinded by the material world like everybody else was; he saw the world for what it truly was -- bitter lies and misery. Despite the fact that Siddhartha was becoming a great Samana, revered by even the older monks, he felt that what he had learned from them he could have learned on his own and in less time. Once again, he was not satisfied with the path that he was on and aspired to achieve even greater heights by parting from the Samanas. This ambition is plainly displayed when Siddhartha’s friend Govinda, who had become a Samana as well, proclaimed that Siddhartha would have learned to walk on water had he stayed with the ascetics. Siddhartha simply says that he would “let old

Vasudeva is the ferryman who was, in my opinion, the most helpful to Siddhartha in his journey to enlightenment. Vasudeva is the man who stays at the river, where Siddhartha leaves and comes back. He helps Siddhartha in his understandings of himself and the universe through the river. Govinda also helps Siddhartha on his journey to enlightenment. Although Siddhartha does have a secret distaste for his friend, they both agree to set out on a journey to search for enlightenment. They end up separating, but do eventually reconnecting after Siddhartha reaches Nirvana. He is then able to help Govinda reach enlightenment. When Siddhartha strays off his path, he meets a business man, Kamaswami, who teaches him about wealth and the city. Here he meets his wife, Kamala. Kamala shows him desire and physical love which pushes him further from his original plan of enlightenment. Yet, meeting Kamaswami and Kamala were important, because they showed Siddhartha the materialistic side of life and how even with everything, he still wasn’t

The right ecstasy Siddhartha shares with Govinda is enlightenment, what Govinda had been seeking for on his whole journey. Govinda

Throughout the first part of the novel Siddhartha written by Herman Hesse, each chapter represents one of the Four Noble Truths. This chapter “The Brahmin Son” represents the Noble Truth “Life is Suffering”, in translation life consists of suffering and dissatisfaction. Suffering does not only come from the body but there also forms of mental suffering. On page 5 of the novel it states, “That was how everybody loved Siddhartha. He delighted and made everybody happy. But Siddhartha himself was not happy.” This quote shows that Siddhartha is in fact mentally suffering because he is not happy. From this it is clear that Siddhartha lives a life of suffering which demonstrates that Siddhartha wasn’t happy because all that he was taught by his father