Life Recap

Throughout this section Siddhartha recaps his life. He talks about his childhood till now. Siddhartha knows that his life was filled with twists and turns. He grew up involved with gods and sacrifices. As a youth he was busy meditating and thinking. As he got older he was involved with the ascetics. While going through this experience with the ascetics he suffered heat and frost, learned to go hungry and many other things. He grew in great amount but was still not satisfied with himself. He decided to learn more about the Buddha, but soon had to leave all this behind. Throughout all this he met Kamala. Kamala taught Siddhartha the pleasures of love. He learned many other things and soon lost his connection with his mind and the ability to think I think this is significant because he had to go through many things just to meet his goal, to be enlightened. I think this is important because it teaches you if you want to accomplish a goal you have to go through ups and downs and at the end you’ve reached your goal.