Siddhartha the buddha
Siddhartha the buddhaWhy do we exist? What is the aim of the human kind? What is the meaning of life?
Those are the questions every person thinks of at some point in it’s life. World religions try to give answers to these questions. Art and science give us some interpretations of the meaning of life as well.
Ever since humanity exists, individuals tried to capture their thoughts and ideas about life. Hesse’s book “Siddharta” is one of the most successful trials of explaining the concept of life, love and the divine. Since the nature of words is in fact very limited, we can’t find definite answers to the above questions as we can find the answer to a mathematical equation. Still, the story of Siddhartha gives to me personally a very close insight in the nature of Being. A good amount of imagination and unprejudiced mind is necessary to understand the concepts of this and similar writings.
Religions of any kind, which existed ever since there is humanity, tell us that the meaning of life is to follow the rules of God or to reach God. That is the unique similarity of all religions. Every believer is promised a reward for his lifelong faith in the Almighty.
That is what I believe too, but I think that it’s free to everyone to decide who this God is and how to reach him. For me, God is everything in us and around us. God is the law, according to which everything happens, evolves, and ceases to be. God is the law of nature, so it is in no means with the human sciences of the nature. Above all, God is love towards everything that exists. Siddhartha experienced that love in the moment of his enlightenment. Jesus, Mohamed, Krishna and other spiritual leaders too, did experience and share this love with the people around them. (What the leaders of churches made out of those people’s teachings is another story.) This love can’t be explained using rational human mind nor it is necessary to be explained. It is more important to experience that love, that unity of all things that exist. There are techniques and methods which can be learned, how to experience that love, in other word, how to become one with God. Expanding the consciousness through meditation, yoga, prayers, magic invocations, art or drugs are certainly the most powerful ways to become aware of God, of this unique “Love that Consumes”. Siddhartha was a god master of some of those teachings, but he noticed the lack of completeness in them. They lacked...
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