Siddhartha experiences the bliss of Enlightenment early in life, but this is not the end of the book. Through the process he decided:
"I want to learn from myself, want to be my student, want to get to know myself, the secret of Siddhartha."
He will live like there is no tomorrow, experience extreme pleasure, find true suffering, repent, get enlightened again and so on.
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Hesse's book starts like a (more serious) Monthy Python sketch, with Siddhartha living a parallel life to historical Buddha. A novel about true enlightenment and about finding yourself.
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