Siddhartha

When our worldly body whither away, we will only have left what spiritual gratification we grasped in our youth to carry us through the gateway to death and immortality. In a sense, whatever the materialistic objects over which the human nature craves for will ultimately have no importance than mere temporary happiness. Due to the desire of wanting more satisfaction of our needs through these materials, humans are subjected to pain and suffering. Nevertheless, these same obsessions prevents a man from finding his true self, his soul, that knows the truth about a man’s feelings and actions. “All we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of thoughts. If a man speaks or acts with pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him” ( Burtt, 52). Hermann Hesse’s book Siddartha, displays the fundamental four noble truth found in the great religion of Buddhism, begun twenty five hundred years ago, that include the ultimate aim of the good person should be the elimination of their self-centered desire, which can be attained through the grasping the truth about reality and following the eight