World Religion Studies of Siddhartha or the Buddha

Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse discusses the many paths of teaching that relate to Hinduism that Siddhartha followed on his journey through life and how each path helped him realize what he wanted with his life. Siddhartha follows many teachings or paths in which to reach his spiritual destination, which at the beginning was to reach Nirvana.

The third sight that the prince saw was a dead body – death . After seeing all the above mention sights, the mind of the prince became much troubled and became sorrowful because of suffering that human beings have to endure in their life. After encountering these three terrifying sights, the prince came across the fourth sight the ascetic who decided to devote his life to find the cause of suffering that human being go through. Siddhartha understood that he could also be relieved from the suffering he went through of being reborn repeatedly. As a result, Siddhartha decided to be and follow the ascetic. To sum up, this discussion has explored the significance of the four sights of Buddha. These are the most respected and adored sights by the

Siddhartha’s journey to enlightenment can be described by three terms that are described in Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse. Siddhartha goes through many challenges and suffers in his journey to reach Nirvana. He wants to be enlightened one, one without fear to anything. He wants to keep continue his path to Nirvana. He leaves everything behind and keeps going towards his goal. The terms are very significant in Siddhartha’s life because the word Om guides him to perfection and oneness, he goes through many challenges to reach Nirvana, and the term Samsara makes him keep going in his life.

He saw the suffering of old age, sickness and death on the streets; he then decided to give up that lifestyle. He tried beginning a monk and an Indian asceticism. Neither path satisfied him for what he was missing. Buddhists believe that one day, while seated beneath the Bodhi tree (the tree of awakening); Siddhartha became deeply absorbed in meditation and reflected on his experience of life until he became enlightened. (BBC 2014)

Although not easily accepted by his father, his goal was not to be like him; he would study the teachings of Atman and meditate on a daily basis, not to mention he was considered one of the most advanced, but instead of living the life through teachers he pursued his future merely focusing on reaching Nirvana. Throughout his journey Siddhartha had many many teachers in completely different forms, however, the one teacher, the river, that was not a teacher at all, made him understand life and enable him to enter Nirvana. Each teacher furthered his knowledge, but the river taught him the greatest message of all: everything connects to one another, there is a reason for everything, and that time is inexistent. Through his journey Siddhartha found his meaning and bliss in his

He did this for many years, until one night a realization came to him, this part of his life had to end. Samsara had taken over his life and there little left from his days of spiritual searching. Once again, even though he had learned a lot from his teachers and experiences, Siddhartha had not achieved the knowledge he wanted. Ultimately he decides to

Siddhartha’s protected environment could no longer satisfy him when he discovered the unfortunate truths of every person 's life. Occasionally, the prince would leave the palace to take trips into the city. His father, wanting to shelter him, would orchestrate these trips to avoid the unpleasantries of life. The story goes that four sights led Siddartha to leave his established life. He experienced these sights on outings he was taken on by his charioteer named Chandaka. Even though care was taken to hide these things the prince saw old age, disease, and death that drastically changed his view of the world. On a fourth outing, he saw a holy man and a practicing ascetic. This is when he first perceived these realities of human life. He suddenly became aware of the causes of suffering in the world. This encounter showed him, what he thought was the way to overcome life 's sufferings, the ascetic path. At the age of twenty-nine he left his wife, his son, and his palace behind to lead a life of extreme asceticism that he believed could lead him to the answer of overcoming human suffering. For six years Siddhartha Gautama followed asceticism and meditation. He practiced the yoga discipline under two masters, Arada Kalama, and Udraka Ramaputra. Not finding the answers under his two teachers he left to engage in extreme asceticism and was joined by five others; Ashvajit, Vashpa, Bhadrika, Mahanaman, and Kaundinya. These men became followers of Siddhartha. After six years, he

Siddhartha lived with Brahmin parents and was well loved in his house. However, he was not satisfied with his religious life. He did not see how his elders were going to reach enlightenment with another religion, to his father. After days and nights of Siddhartha standing in his room, in one position, his father saw Siddhartha’s dedication in his goal. His father let him go, but wasn’t mad or disappointed at all.

In many cases, there are various things that make life, in a sense, worth living. Matters of the heart and mind tend to become confused and internal conflicts arise. In addition to these internal conflicts, there are also many outside factors that can cause turmoil as well. Individuals themselves have various ways of dealing with the turmoil they may face in their lives, but a majority of people in our world today, turn to religion, in their best efforts to explain the unexplainable. Religion however is not always a two way street, going one way or the other. The belief in something much higher than secular humanity definitely can cause some confusion in and of itself, allowing people to look for different outlets and denominations of an unexplored

Siddhartha learns that his conquest for enlightenment can only be achieved in a way that requires him to leave himself from his persistent mind of trying to find it to a calm mindset of it already happening and continues to find himself . He learn to be patient as he waits a long time to find his inner peace which takes his entire life to find. He finds himself in very difficult positions where he decides whether or not his quest is worth him leaving his family. Siddhartha

Having been confronted with the Four Passing Sights, (a sick person, an aged person, a corpse, and a holy man), Prince Siddhartha left his home to discover the truth of birth and death and find peace of mind.

Throughout the entire novel, Siddhartha, was characterized as a diligent and devoted believer. Siddhartha was overwhelmed with the quest to discover and obtain enlightenment. In the introduction of the novel, Siddhartha was not content with his on-going spiritual practices. He decided to purse the path of becoming a Samana, he faithfully followed the Samana’s commands, but was still unsatisfied. He abandons the Samanas and starts a journey to seek Gotama. In one of Gotama’s lectures, Siddhartha concludes that in order to achieve enlightenment, oneself must experience it, not be instructed. Once again, he abandons Gotama and continues his journey. For the first time Siddhartha is alone and realizing how magnificent and ravishing the world around

While on his journey he experienced the suffering of the people outside the palace and continued to travel southern India to practice extreme forms of severe self-discipline, deprave himself of food, sleep, and physically challenging test. After roughly six years of this practice, Siddhartha had realized that the extreme depravation was not the way of self-enlightenment and abandoned this practice. Although he would continue the practice of sustaining himself from any other form of marriage and relationships until the ending of his life. Siddhartha abounded the ascetic lifestyle because it played the same role of distraction as the life of luxury he used to

Siddhartha’s journey in attaining the Good Life highlights a number of challenges he had to

One was an elderly man, another was a man suffering from illness, and finally he saw a dead body surrounded by mourners. Since he had never seen anything like this before, he asked his charioteer what these things were. He responded to the Prince that these things were natural and unavoidable, and happened to everyone. Once again Siddhartha asked his charioteer to take him out into the city; this time he was to see the last of four images that would change his life forever. The last sight he saw was a wandering old holy man with no possessions. His head was completely shaved and he was wearing a yellow robe. Having seen all these things, Buddha not only became aware of the pain and suffering of humankind, but was also prompted to do something about it. He left his family in search of the answers to his questions (Buddhism).