Siddhartha Reading Blog #3

In this section of the book there is a lot of reference to the water, and how from the simplicity of it you can learn a lot of things. For this reason is that I am going to connect this part of the book to Tao Te Ching. In the previous quarter in English class we learned about the teachings of the Tao, and it was very interesting it had a lot of paradoxes and it had a lot of teachings of nature. Many of the teachings from the Tao talk about streams about their simplicity and many of the meaning it has. Like that it flows freely without forcing itself.

In Siddhartha it talks how the river is at the beginning and at the end at the same time. There are also a lot of paradoxes in this chapter like when Siddhartha lost everything (kamala) he gained everything (his son).

I think this section has been the most interesting so far because there are a lot of connections to other pieces of literature or other books, but in my opinion the best of all was Siddhartha fail at suicidal in the river. What I find so interesting is that water represents rebirth or simply birth. Because in real life a baby is born after the water brakes, and in Catholicism when water is poured on your head you are being baptize and your sins are being forgiven or simply you are being reborn. In a book I read that is called A Game of Thrones in which there is a religion that they drown you and then do CPR on you to revive you. It is the same with Siddhartha when he goes to the river he wanted to suicide but then he saw the beauty of the world, and as he said he was a child in an old man’s body.

There are patterns in many pieces of literature, between an important and an important or just with a common one. Here we can see between Siddhartha, The Tao, The Bible and A Game of Thrones.