Siddhartha’s main goal is to discover what is true of the world and to find a life of absolute peace. ... His awakening is not a simply process because it takes him almost his whole life to achieve it. This process of awakening (as his life) is divided into three distinct periods: one which is identified with thoughts, one which is identified with senses and the last one which synthesizes these two into a great unity. Even thought, the starting point of Siddhartha’s journey is Hinduism he finds his awakening in the way characteristic for Buddhism.
We meet Siddhartha when he is dissatisfied with Brahmans( the highest cast in Hindu) because despite their knowledge, the Brahmins are seekers still, performing the same exercises again and again in order to reach Nirvana, which for Hindu is the peace of oneness with Atman the Divine within. However, Siddhartha does not know anyone from them who ever find Nirvana. As Siddhartha says: “One must find the source within one’s Self; one must possess it. ... As Samanas, Siddhartha relinquishes all his possession and dedicates himself to meditation, fasting, and other methods of mortification. ... There is a little confusion about which Self Siddhartha is talking. ... Siddhartha wants to kill his own ego. Even though through physical pain Siddhartha still cannot achieve Nirvana; with Samanas he is tangled in Samsara cycle. As with Brahmins, Siddhartha knows of no Samana who has actually attained Nirvana. ... Later on when Siddhartha has conversation with Gotama, the Buddha says him that his teaching’s goal “is not to explain the world who are thirsty for knowledge (…) Its goal is salvation from suffering.
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