Review

Of Sidhhartha    

                        By Herman Hesse

In this novel Herman Hesse had described the journey of a Brahmin boy in the search of self knowledge. He joined the ascetics and became a Samana .His assumption that this salvation and sacrifice will him to the coveted way he turned to the Samsara. The once slacked muscles transformed into a deborian man and so his lexicon. The comforts of the world dazzled him. Then the self realization engendered a new thirst within him, raised him from the delirium tremens, deviated  him to a new path and then found a river that could quench this thirst.

        River a sign of spontaneity, evocativeness and eternity had the enigma of life hid within it. The ferryman guided him in the impasse situation and helped him recognize the sound of Om, the sound of the soul. He who had never been introduced to the verses enshrined in the holy books still had acquired much more knowledge than Siddhartha.

        Thereafter Siddhartha breaks the barrier of illusion, the maze of meanings, the contradictions of teachings and lastly gains the wisdom hid behind all the acquired knowledge.

        Yes, it’s we who pave the path of our. God dwells in each and every thing of this world. Feel his essence and the art of turning perturbation into satisfaction, atrocity into sacrifice, ego into serenity, and above all knowledge into wisdom…..

                                                                     Preeti Singh