Siddhartha
by Hermann Hesse
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Siddhartha, a young man, leaves his family for a contemplative life, then, restless, discards it for one of the flesh. He conceives a son, but bored and sickened by lust and greed, moves on again. Near dispair, Siddhartha comes to a river where he hears a unique sound. This sound signals the true beginning of life--the beginning of suffering, rejection, peace and, finally, wisdom
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Siddhārtha: eka klāsika kr̥ti
2013, Sārthaka Prakāśana, Mukhya vikretā, Buka Śêlpha
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Siddhartha
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Hermann Hesse wrote Siddhartha after he traveled to India in the 1910s. It tells the story of a young boy who travels the country in a quest for spiritual enlightenment in the time of Guatama Buddha. It is a compact, lyrical work, which reads like an allegory about the finding of wisdom.
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