The universe is highly interconnected and vast. It’s almost as if there is no beginning or end to it, which makes it as mysterious as it is beautiful. To understand this magnitude of information, Siddhar...

Siddhartha meets Govinda, a friend from childhood who is also seeking self-realization. They discover that desire causes suffering because it makes humans attached to things they want but do not have.

Siddhartha is a young man who leaves home to find meaning in life. He meets many people on his journey who help him find inner peace and enlightenment. The book teaches us that if we want to be free fr...

"Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go."

1. Siddharta realizes that the material world is not complete without the spiritual one, and vice versa.
2. The fisherman is a metaphor for the enlightenment we’re all looking for, one way or another. 
3. All things coexist in a beautiful unity that contains everything living and dea...

Siddhartha is a young Brahman to whom common pleasures like food, companionship, or wealth are not satisfying enough. His soul is searching for a higher meaning in life. Therefore, he sets a goal to mov...

He then moves to the other extreme and lives as a materialist by having a well-paid job, being with a woman, and indulging in consumerism, good food, as well as bodily pleasures. However, he finds this lifestyle lacks spirituality so he decides that there must be an equilibrium between the ...

The 40-year-old person who feels troubled in their soul even though they’re fulfilled professionally, the 33-year-old who had a life-altering experience and wants to reconnect with their higher being, or the 20-something-year-old who achieved conventional success early in their life and is now lo...

In life, we all have to find our light or goal and reach it to fulfill ourselves. In this novel, the fisherman represents Siddhartha’s goal of enlightenment and freedom from his suffering.

Because he was so entranced by the beauty of nature, the fisherman has no desire ...

When Siddhartha meets him first as a young man and again later in life after many years have passed, he finds himself attracted to this lifestyle. That’s because it seems so freeing compared to what he has known before then.

When you let go of society’s expectations and le...

Siddhartha presents the self-discovery expedition of a man during the time of the Buddha who, unsure of what life really means to him, takes an exploratory journey to pursue the highs and lows of life, which ultimatel...