Hesse began to write Siddhartha around 1920, and the first English translation of it was published in 1951. For Hesse, this was his confession of belief, wrought out of his rejection of his parents’ orthodox Christianity.
It is the story of a young Brahmin, living in India at the time of the Buddha, and his spiritual journey in search of enlightenment. In the first part of the book, he leaves behind his father and family and formal religion, then his devoted friend and companion seeker, Govinda, and even eschews following the path of the Buddha. His reason for this choice is his realisation that the Buddha teaches liberation from suffering, and that this supreme goal has been attained, not through following a teaching, but through his seeking truth on his own path, and that what he has attained can not be taught, it can only found on one’s own. So begins Siddhartha’s journey.
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15 окт 2024
