Siddhartha's Ego

With one single Om from a river, Siddhartha finally gets rid of his inner ego. Siddhartha knows his inner voice was right, that he didn’t need a teacher to save him; he needed to be everything a man could be. “No teacher could ever have saved him. That is why he had had to..abandon himself to pleasure and power, women and money, why he had had to be a merchant, a dice player, a drinker, and a man consumed with greed.” He needed to experience being everything until his inner shaman and priest were gone. Until all of Siddhartha had died, then he would wake up as a young, new Siddhartha. The way to get rid of an ego is to completely rid yourself of everything. Until Siddhartha’s ego was completely gone and he didn’t know who he was anymore, then the ego could completely disappeared. With the ego destroyed Siddhartha is now closer to becoming enlightened. This realization that he was on the right path and that he had gotten rid of his ego is significant because without this realization that his ego was gone he would never be able to move forward. Without getting rid of your ego you can never become enlightened. Siddhartha had wanted to get rid of his ego from the beginning of his leaving. After all of what he went through, with greed, power, poor, and starving he finally got rid of his ego. This is significant because that was the goal all along, and he finally achieved it. I think this is a really important part of Siddhartha’s life because this point in time is when Siddhartha finally knows who he is without an ego; he knows he is on the right path.