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Review: “Siddhartha” on goodreads

SiddharthaSiddhartha by Hermann Hesse

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Being of indian origin, I was really thrilled to read this book that captures the ancient spiritual India quite accurately. The most poignant moment for me was to read about Siddartha coming face to face to Gautama Buddha and tell the great teacher that wisdom cannot be taught; that it is incommunicable. Isn’t that so true? No amount of reading or meditating can teach us about life.

The only way to learn about life is to live, to immerse in this extraordinary opportunity that is the human experience, Continue reading “Review: “Siddhartha” on goodreads” →

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Some Quotes

Hesse on enrichment of soul

“Almost all the prose works I have written are biographies of the soul”, Hermann Hesse has written, “monologues, in which a single individual is observed in relation to the world and to his own ego.”
-From the dust-jacket of “Peter Camenzind/Hermann Hesse”

Some Quotes

Quote about wisdom – Hermann Hesse

“What he had said to the Buddha – that the Buddha’s wisdom and secret was not teachable, that it was inexpressible and incommunicable-…”-From “Siddhartha” by Hermann Hesse, translated by Hilda Rosner