SIDHDHARTHA

                                                  SIDHDHARTHA

                                                                                  -   Herman Hesse.



                           
                                           

                               


   "Sidhdhartha"  is written by  Hermann Hesse.  It is the spiritual journey of self-discovery of  a man whose  name is  Siddhartha during the time of the Gautama Buddha.  Budhdha is reffered as "Gautama" in the novel.  Novel  gives the glimpses of this event like......

    સિધ્ધાર્થ અને ગોવિંદનું પરમ સત્યની શોધમાં નીકળવું

ગોવિંદનું ભગવાન બુધ્ધના અનુયાયી તરીકે તેઓની સાથે જવું

સિધ્ધાર્થ બુધ્ધની જેમ જ એકલા પરમ સત્યની શોધમાં જવું ને ભગવાનના ઉપદેશોમાં શંકા

સંસાર છોડી  સંન્યાસ લેવો, ફરી પાછું સંસારમાં આવવું , ફરી સંસાર છોડી સંન્યાસ લેવો .....

   " હું જ મારો ગુરુ, હું જ મારો શિષ્ય."- આવા સિદ્ધાર્થના જીવનસ્વીકારની, આત્મસભાનતાની અને રઝળપાટની કથા છે-'     સિદ્ધાર્થ'.
                         
                           જે સતત પસાર થાય છે,વહે છે, છતાં હમેંશા હોય છે તે સમય છે કે જીવન ?જન્મ-બાળપણ-યુવાની-પ્રૌઢત્વ-વૃદ્ધાવસ્થા-મૃત્યું- એ શું માત્ર વિભાગો જ નથી? 'હતું' અને 'હશે' નિરર્થક છે ! 'છે' -એ જ સાર્થક નથી ?

                       "હદકા ગુરુ કબીર હય, બેહદકા નાહિ, બેહદ આપમેં ઉપજે...."

               "Nothing is mine. I know nothing, I possess nothing, I have learned nothing."

'આ ભણવું ,શીખવું એમાં મને શ્રદ્ધા રહી નથી. હું એટલું શીખ્યો છું કે કોઈને કંઈ શીખવી શકાતું નથી. જીવનમર્મ શીખવી શકાતો જ નથી. મનુષ્યે જાતે જ ખોળી લેવો પડે છે. '

"ગૂઢ મર્મ માટે શબ્દો બહુ સારી ચીજ નથી. એ જયારે શબ્દોમાં મૂકાય છે ત્યારે એ જરાક તરડાઈ જાય છે; થોડી ચતુરાઈ, થોડું જૂઠ્ઠાણું એમાં ભળી બેસે છે."

જીવનનો મર્મ કહી શકાય તેવું કઈં હાથમાં આવ્યું નથી એની પીડા એને કોરી ખાય છે. ખળખળ વહેતી નદી, પ્રદિપ્ત તારલાઓ, ઉદીપ્ત સૂર્યકિરણો એને અવિરત સ્વપ્નો અને વિચારો આપે છે.ૠગ્વેદની ૠચાઓ કે ઉપદેશકના જ્ઞાન-સંભાષણોમાંથી સાંપડતા હોય તેવા જ વિચારો એ આ મૂકસભર સૃષ્ટિ પાસેથી પણ સંવેદે છે. એ જાતને છેતરી શકતો નથી. અસંતોષનું બીજ એનામાં જન્મ લઇ ચુકયું છે.એનો અજંપો ભૌતિક નથી, આધ્યાત્મિક છે. સિદ્ધાર્થનો આધ્યાત્મિક અજંપો એ કૃતિનું આરંભબિંદુ છે. એ અજંપાનું શમન કૃતિની પરાકાષ્ઠા છે.

             
             I find the Existential anxiety hear. Philosophical concern which is given by Satre, Albert Camus, and Martin Esslin etc.... 

     There is no meaning at all in life. Men has to predict that he/she is happy with present situation or doing the things because they have nothing to do.  Life has no meaning at all. One has to give the meaning of the life.

                                        " Man is maker of his own fate. "

      Though ultimate truth of the life is already decided, we have to reach that point /place with completing our journey. Nothing can be sustained forever. Journey is the most important part of the life. Whatever happens in life but journey never ends until we die.


                  One has to search his/her own path.  No one is followed by others because we  all are different.  No body can cheat because all have different question papers . The same story , describe here. When we think we know all things , actually we don't nothing.  The story of novel is well structured and has  the pictorial elements. Sometime readers visualize things and at some extent they can feel also. Wonderful philosophical  talk we find in the novel among characters.   

         

            Sidhdhartha has curiosity to know about the great knowledge what is themeaning of life?  Govinda and Shidhdhartha both are the best friends. Shidhdhartha leaves the home to gain spiritual illuminiation. During that time, they both get chance to meet  ' Gautama Budhdha' who is already enlighten himself.  Govinda follows all instructions and advices of Budhdha but Sidhdhartha can't do it.  He has doubt on Budhdha's philosophy, too. Shidhdhartha argues that individual is different so path must be different One has to seek his/her life own.  No one can  able to enlighten others. He believes that teacher ( Budhdha) can't give unique lesson to each. One has to find the own way. And that's why  Shidhdhartha  continues his life journey  alone without his best friend Govinda.

Siddhartha crosses a river and unable to pay the money to sailor. In city he comes across  the most attractive woman  Kamala who tells him to be richer first. she may teach him the art of love. Though he knows the meaninglessness of wealth and life he agree with her condition.   Gradually , Sidhdhartha becomes successful business man. Thus Siddhartha becomes a rich man and Kamala's lover, though in his middle years he realizes that the luxurious lifestyle which is selected by him is merely have surface attraction nothing else. Afterwards ,  Sidhdhartha again leaves Kamala, and continues his journey to find the self coming back to the river. He feels that he has experienced something within. He feels  enlightenment  through the word "OM".  Nearby River he once again meets his best friend Govinda who is passing through  that region.

                        Siddhartha decides to live  e bank of river with spiritual essence. Sidhdharth again meets  Vasudeva - the sailor  with whom he begins  his way of life. Although Vasudeva is a simple man, he understands and relates that the river has many voices and significant messages to divulge to any who might listen.

Kamala accept Budhdhism and gives the birth of son but Sidhdharth don't know about this. Sidhdhartha comes across to this reality when Kamala is almost seduced by ventures and dies. Much pain and suffering go together with kamala. Now, once again   Sidhdhartha takes responsibility his son as father but son flees . Sidhdhartha realises the truth of life and have much philosophical  talk with Vasudeva. Time is nothing . It is only illusion.  Present moment is the only time to have . while they are discussing, Sidhdhartha accepts that Vasudeva has much understanding and maturity than him. He does his work with heart and get the depth of mind .  He finds his own way while working over river only.

            Vasudeva urges him to let the child to find his own path, much like Sidhdhartha does himself in youth. Vasudeva shares his experience with river to Shidhdhartha. One has to be alone and walk on way is the cyclical nature. Vasudeva says we have to depart when work is done . And once once more, Sidhdhartha is alone.

વાસુદેવ નાવિક પાસે પરમ સત્ય પ્રાપ્ત કરવું .

કાળ ,સમય , ભૂત , ભવિષ્ય , વર્તમાન જેવું કશું છે જ નહી ! જે છે તે આજ છે ! 

નદી...... દરેક સમયે એક જ લાગતી નદી હરપળે નવી છે . કારણ કે .... તે વહે છે ,વહી શકે છે .
નદી પાસેથી શાંતિ પામી બુધ્ધત્વનો આનંદ પ્રાપ્ત કરે છે .

Now, at the end Sidhdhartha gets the enlightenment from Vasudeva. When Govinda and he meet, Govinda doesn't able to recognise his childhood friends. When Govinda says him to relate  his wisdom with Budhdhism Sidhdhartha says that for every true statement there is an opposite one that is also true; that language and the confines of time lead people to hold to one fixed belief that does not account for the detail of the truth. Siddhartha simply urges people to identify and love the world in its completeness.

Siddhartha then requests that Govinda kiss his forehead and, when he does, Govinda experiences the visions of timelessness that Siddhartha himself saw with Vasudeva by the river. Govinda bows to his wise friend and Siddhartha smiles radiantly, having found enlightenment.

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