It’s been a long time since I’ve read this book “Siddhartha ”, but I haven’t record it yet until now. Recently when I went through the bookshelf and my figures touch the book I felt a sense of a relief as if I dropped into the moment when I first read the book. I have to say that this book gives me a deeper understanding upon my identification towards life and also myself.
This book narrates a process of a boy 's growing mature. In my eyes, his life experience can reflect our lives and we can gain inspiration from his life. We begin our journey by following our heart and walk along with a path that seems inconsistent with our original life. And then after going through baptism, we will reach Nirvana and become ourself again.
Siddhartha once said: “When I was young, I only know worship and sacrifice; when I was adolescent, I only know ascesis, thought, solitary retreat and I seeked Brahma and adored eternal Spirit of Atman. At a young age, I followed Sramana of sin, living in the forest, enduring blasting colds and parching heats, the torments of hunger and learn to be paralyzed… From a man I became a little boy, from a thinker I became a suburban creature. Maybe the path was fragrant however the bird in my heart had never died. How imaginary the path is! After experienced so many fault, sorrow and pain, I only wish to become a child again, to start over again.”
Siddhartha’s experience might be suitable for every one of us. Ignorant worship in youth, fearless pursuit in adolescent, complacency and loss in pursuing, and finally he found himself and yielded to his innate mind. Everyone is the same, devoting the whole life to chase the unity — one that unite oneself with the world and one’s own mind, until one day we can realize that “your soul is the whole world”, the unity is completed. Influenced by Siddhartha, I started to explore my inner thought. When weighing my options, I would not take more secular into consideration, but instead of asking myself: “Do I really want to choose this way, whatever the outcome is？” The fact is that the answer drew by this way tend to stand the test of time without any regrets.
The other thought-provoking thing in the book, which is also frequent to see but easily to be neglected in life, is water in the river. Siddhartha could draw inspiration from the river that all nature runs its circle and echo in eternity. I have never regarded water as holy and divine, but every time when I read about the scene of the river I can easily substitute into it. Hearing the trickle of river I could feel soft poetical melody of it. With the aromas lingering by my side I gradually realize the great of river: it is fearless and can run to anywhere; it is selfless and willing to accept and hug anyone who pass by; it is everlasting to bring the immortal life to the earth.
The unification of Siddhartha and the river makes me feel unprecedented clam. No man can avoid the test of life even the noblest person. What we can do is to fully enjoy the beauty that the river of life endows to us and live for unity and enternity of life.
Written by 杨慧
Translated by 郭美莹
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