Tristan River voice

“This is probably what you mean: that 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 woman about to give birth, of a man sighing, and a thousand other voices too?”



“All creatures’ voices are in its voice.” Vasudeva

All these quotes have been chosen by my very good eye. The points of these three quotes are to talk about the time and the voice of the river. In the second quote it talks about the rivers many voices. The river says every thing and with all these voices it comes together and to Siddhartha it makes Om. The last time I was at a river it did not make and om sound. The book then relates the river to time. They do this because you really can’t stop time. The river also resembles that because it is always going. It is also in continuous cycle. Time does not actually exist and it is always moving around the river is also spread everywhere. There is no such thing as the future or past just now. Like time the river is only in one place the river bed the past (in the ocean) and the future (clouds) really aren’t real