How Can Siddhartha Achieve Enlightenment

Enlightenment is necessary to achieve Nirvana. In the book Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse the main character sets off to a journey to learn about him self and to reach enlightenment. Throughout the book Siddhartha notices that he has change in many different ways but has yet a way to go to be able to kill self. He wants to kill the Self to be able to awaken and reject worldly pleasures. Siddhartha had learned from his experiences that one it self can reach enlightenment through self-control, experiencing the world and to break off the patterns that life has. Having self-discipline, mentally or spiritually strong. Siddhartha learned to read and write while been a Brahmin and living with the Brahmins who are a high priestly cast that can only achieve Nirvana. Siddhartha believes that everyone can achieve Nirvana not just the Brahmins so he sets off with the Samanas who believe that one can achieve enlightenment by asceticism. With them he learns how to accommodate to the environment when it gets hot or cold, and rain. He has learned that when he focuses along with listening to the holy Om he reflects on his spiritual growth and is able to awaken by it

By the middle of the book Siddhartha meets a man named Kamaswami who is a sales man, furthermore asks Siddhartha to help him since he is good at reading and writing. Siddhartha becomes involved with the material world, gambling, been a sales man and starts to become greedy. One night he has a dream that Kamala his lover has a dead songbird dead and trapped in a golden cage. Siddhartha soon realizes that “the world had caught him” (Hesse 62) it’s his soul that has been trapped and is dying. He leaves the urban, materialistic life to be back on enlightenment. Siddhartha comes to a river to cry over everything wrong he has done and attempts to kill himself but then he remembers the holy Om which helps his dying spirit awaken and finds the wrong in trying to commit