He started as a Brahman's child, and tells his dad that he wants to leave the house and join the Samana. His main goal through the Samana was to learn how to destroy the Self, and to do that he must learn how to do three basic things. ... After he realizes he isn't finding what he is looking for with the Samana, and goes to the Buddha, where he realizes that he doesn't like to be taught, and that he must gain wisdom on his own. ...

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Coming from an established Brahmin's family, he decides to become a Samana and lead a life of poverty, which was very hard for him to adjust to living with no provisions, and hardly and clothing. ... He came to her as a poor Samana, so he had to be able to become wealthy again to be able to spend time with her and give her gifts. ... When he left home so as to become a Samana, he coped with the transition by retaining a single goal, to become empty to any emotion or physical feeling, and to lose his Self until he became adjusted to the life of a Samana. ......

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Siddhartha begins his journey to enlightenment by moving to live with the Samanas in the forest. ... With the Samanas he learns many skills such as meditation, and how to leave one's soul. However, he feels that he cannot obtain true peace with the Samanas. ... Siddhartha finally decides to leave the Samanas, and follow another path to self-discovery. ... The river teaches Siddhartha more about life, and what is important more so than the Brahmins or the Samanas taught him. ...

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He soon realizes he has learned everything he can learn from them, and decides to become a Samana, which in this instance in the book means a wandering ascetic. ... Soon though, he turns to the elder Samanas, and learns from them. ... After spending time with the elder Samanas, he decides to leave them to meet the Buddha, or enlightened one. ...

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Siddhartha's experience that changes his life is leaving his family and becoming a Samana. ... This is shown by Siddhartha's leaving home to join the Samanas. ... Siddhartha did not leave his father's chambers until he had gotten his way, until his father had submitted to Siddhartha's wishes and agreed to let him leave home to join the Samanas (10-12). ... "Siddhartha learned a great deal from the Samanas he learned many ways of losing the Self" (15). ... This expereince makes him leave the Samanas and go search for something else. ...

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Siddhartha experiences physical suffering as a young man when he joins the ascetics or Samanas. As a Samana, Siddhartha learns to fast, to tolerate extreme heat and cold, and to endure pain through meditation. Siddhartha's life as a samana is bitter, and he learns that "life [is] pain" (p.11). ... After leaving the Samanas, Siddhartha begins a life of decadence in the house of a wealthy merchant and in the company of a beautiful courtesan. ... Because of his desire to be empty and to rid himself of the Self, Siddhartha experiences physical pain as a Samana. ...

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These worlds have helped to shape Siddhartha, from the ideal beginning, the painful seeking of a passionate young Samana, the luscious world of possessions and money to the old days of a man whose every wrinkle carries a wisdom of its own. ... When Siddhartha chooses to join the Samanas, he does so in the hope of finding himself, and of finding God in himself. ... He saw them lament over pains at which the Samana laughs, and suffer at deprivations which a Samana does not feel (70). ... In many ways, living the life of a rich man teaches Siddhartha much more about wisdom than when he went in se...

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This story is about how Siddhartha left his father at the age of fifteen and joined the Samanas. Siddhartha and Govinda have both been with the Samanas, but they still have not learned Nirvana. Then Siddhartha realizes that he has wasted his time with the Samanas. The elder of the Samanas is about sixty years old and still hasn't found Nirvana himself. Siddhartha leaves the Samanas and heads for the town of which the Illustrious One lives. ...

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Although Siddhartha's father does not approve of him leaving to become a Samana, he knew that Siddhartha had already made his final decision. ... While with the Samanas, Siddhartha learns and masters many new things from his teachers. ... From the Samanas, he learned ways of losing the Self through pain, voluntary suffering, conquering pain, hunger, thirst, and fatigue. ... After leaving the Samanas, he comes to meet the Gotama Buddha. ... Now that he is not with the Samanas any longer, his senses are being awakened. ...

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Leaving his father and becoming a Samana to living with these holy men was Siddhartha's first attempt at finding his goal. Siddhartha's father agrees to let Siddhartha join the samanas after the realises how bad he must achieve his goal, "You will go into the forest and become a Samana. ... After leaving the Samanas, Siddhartha wants to live in samsara like the common people who he envies. ... When living with the Samanas, Siddhartha wants to renounce the pleasures of the world. ... Siddhartha learned to let the soul die to understand the path to enlightenment like the eldest ...

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Part One: "The Brahmin's Son," "With the Samanas," "Gotama," "Awakening" Summary The young Brahmin Siddhartha spends his days in meditation and contemplation, enjoying the love and admiration of his family, best friend, Govinda, and all who lay eyes on his beautiful, regal form. ... A group of Samanas, or wandering ascetics, passes through Siddhartha's town, and he decides to join them. ... Very quickly, however, he comes to see this lifestyle as nothing but a series of temporary tricks for escaping the Self, and feels that he already knows all that he can learn from the Samanas....

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While on his journey Siddhartha sheds his status as the son of a Brahman in order to become a Samana and practice living in self denial and suffering. During his time as a samana Siddhartha meets the enlightened one himself, the Buddha. ... Siddhartha asks his father if he can join the aesthetic Samanas who practice self denial and believe that in order to gain harmony with everything and everyone they must live a life of pain and suffering. ... As a samana Siddhartha learns much about life and his inner self. During his time as a samana Siddhartha and Govinda meet the Buddha himself. ...

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When the self-denial practicing Samanas come into town, he and his friend Govinda excitedly join them. Siddhartha practices self-denial with the Samanas, clothed in rags, eating scraps. ... The role of the Samanas in Siddhartha's life is great, they teach him discipline and humbleness, but like the Brahmins, their teachings do not satisfy him. ... He hears of the teaching of the Buddha, and decides to abandon the practices and teachings of the Samanas for yet another endeavor. ... As part of his quest, he lives for awhile in self-denial, living amongst the Samanas; but he finds no happine...

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In the book titled Siddhartha, by Herman Hesse, this is shown to us by Siddhartha's leaving home to join the Samanas, and all the actions leading to his residence alongside the river. ... It enables him to out wait anyone or anything, which teaches him how to do without and also helps him through his time with the Samanas. "Siddhartha learned a great deal from the Samanas he learned many ways of losing the Self" (15). ... And with this, his next decision was to leave the Samanas and go in search of the Buddha in order to learn perhaps something he did not already know. ... Because of th...

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From his humble home, Siddhartha travels to the Samanas to live a life of poverty and meditation. ... In order to do so, He felt it necessary to join the Samanas, a group of monks devoted to the search for one's self. ... Siddhartha became frustrated at this and even compared himself with a drunkard as to show the frivolity of his Samana excercises. ... Finding no peace with the Samanas Siddhartha becomes aware that he must depart in order to leave his Self permanently, and so begins the second stage of his excursion. ... Upon his departure from the Samanas, he finds salvation in ...

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In the beginning of the novel he separates from his family to go live in the woods with the Samanas. ... After living with the Samanas the two men traveled to see the Buddah, and learn from his teaching of how to "find salvation." ... She told the Samana that, "he was not yet good enough. ...

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He feels that the Samana's knowledge might lead him to his desired salvation. In the Hindu Caste system the Samanas would be considered untouchables, the lowest of all. ... As soon as Siddhartha becomes a Samana he has a goal. ... Siddhartha considers that the Samanas knowledge might lead to salvation. ... Although he accomplishes all of this he realizes that the ways of the Samanas only allow for temporary escape, they alone will not lead to enlightenment. ...

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This is significant because most Samanas were situated in areas where unchristian religions are dominant. ... When he and Govinda join the Samanas, they give up everything to reach their ultimate goal of Nirvana. ... The first represents the time of the mind (wandering with the Samanas and listening to Gotama), the second represents the time of the flesh (learning the art of love with Kamala and the art of business with Kamaswami), and the third phase represents the time of his ultimate enlightenment (the time spent in tutorage by the river with Vasudeva). ... " (103)), he quickly comes t...

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The first dealt with his time with the traveling Samanas. ... When the Samanas came to the town or village in which Siddhartha lived, he immediately joined their ranks with some resistance by his father. ... Soon, however, Siddhartha feels that he has learned all he can from the Samanas, and quickly grows bored of them. ... While his decision to depart angers the Samanas, Siddhartha leaves them, still with his dear friend Govinda in tow. ...

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By joining Samanas he is still continuing his period identified with thoughts. As Samanas, Siddhartha relinquishes all his possession and dedicates himself to meditation, fasting, and other methods of mortification. ... 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. ...

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To separate from the Self, Siddhartha joins the Samanas, a group of ascetics, and attempts to "become empty, to become empty of thirst, desire, dreams, pleasure, and sorrow- to let the self die. ... He saw them scold and hurt each other; he saw them lament over pains at which the Samana laughs, and suffer at deprivations which a Samana does not feel" (p. 70). ...

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His request to leave his family and join the Samanas was unexpected and out of the ordinary. ... When he finally did join the Samanas, he conformed to that society to survive, by fasting and begging. He definitely gained knowledge, skills and wisdom through it, but it was still change, nonetheless, to the society of the Samanas, that he now belonged to. ...

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Siddhartha becomes a Samana when he leaves his father's home. ... He informs his friend: "Govinda," "I believe that amongst all the Samanas, probably not even one will attain Nirvana. We find consolations; we learn tricks to deceive ourselves, but the essential thing "the way "we do not find I suffer thirst, Govinda, and on this long Samana path my thirst has not grown less." ...

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Society's youth today reflects much of what is said and portrayed in Siddhartha's life. Siddhartha had to make many decisions in his life that affected him forever. Teens, such as myself, also make decisions involving the future, high school, friends, and other activities. Siddhartha's main g...

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SIDDHARTHA Siddartha was raised in sheltered luxury, his father was determined to shield Siddartha from experiencing pain and suffering. Siddartha came to realize how empty his life was. He demanded that he be permitted to leave. He leaves with his childhood friend Govinda to ...

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