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“This is probably what you mean: that the river is everywhere at once—at its source, at its mouth, by the waterfall, by the ferry crossing, in the rapids, in the sea, in the mountains—everywhere at the same time. And that for it there is only the present, not the shadow called the future.”
“Is it not true, friend, that the river has many voices, very many voices? Does it not have the voice of a king, of a warrior, of a bull, of a night bird, of a women giving birth, of a man sighing, and a thousand other voices too?”
“That is true,” nodded Vasudeva, “all creatures’ voices are in its voice.”
These three quotes on page 84 really describe the time and voice of the river. The first quote on this page has one major meaning: That time does not exist and the river demonstrates this by being in multiple places at one time. The river is in all these places at once and this is the same thing with time, time is in many places at once and is still one thing. There is no such thing as the past, present or future it is all one. This is a lesson that the river teaches Siddhartha, that he can relate his life to. The second and third quote meanings are the river can teach many things in many different ways. It may show you anger with its roar, or it could show you what peacefulness is with its silence. When all these voices come together the sound they make is “Om” and this is the sound of the universe. I think some of this is true I believe in the fact that time does not exist and they river demonstrates this. But I do not believe in the idea that the river makes the word “Om”. I don’t believe this because I don’t hear the word “Om” from a river.