What Was The Importance Of The River In Siddhartha

The Importance of the River Hermann Hesse wrote the book Siddhartha in 1922. Hesse influences the main character in the book because Siddhartha and Hermann went through leaving their own family to find truth in what they wanted to do. In the book Siddhartha, Siddhartha leaves home and becomes a student, learning about many different religions, in the end, he eventually finds the place where he is most happy. During Siddhartha’s life, he visits the river three times; each time Siddhartha visits the river a new chapter in his life begins; Siddhartha drops his former bad habits and becomes closer to his true self , more united with Atman, the higher place.
The first visit to the river is when Siddhartha has a dream about seeing Govinda and hugging him, and Govinda turns into a woman. “ When all the
In Siddhartha’s visit he really becomes one with himself and is truly seeking for happiness and peace. Siddhartha has struggled with this situation all his life the river ended his seeking. "When someone is seeking...it happens quite easily that he only sees the thing that he is seeking; that he is unable to find anything, unable to absorb anything...because he is obsessed with his goal. Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal” (Hesse 113). The voices in the river spoke to him. Siddhartha worked and strived to find himself and he was himself at the river as the Ferryman. “The more Siddhartha realized it, the less did he find it; the more did he realize that everything was natural and in order, that Vasudeva had long ago, almost always been like that, only he did not quite recognize it; indeed he himself was hardly different from him. He felt he now regarded Vasudeva as the people regarded the gods and that this could not last”(Hesse