A Book Winning the Noble Prize in Literature

Siddhartha — Hermann Hesse

A spiritual book, winner of the noble prize in literature, and the one with all the wisdom of the world. Hermann Hesse plots this fictional story in the time period of the Gautam Buddha. This is the story in which the protagonist tried every means to know the meaning of life from leaving his home and rejecting the teaching of the Great Buddha to have a wife and money but not peace.

The book is divided into two parts; the first part is all about leaving the home along with all the worldly pleasures. Though in the second part, Siddhartha was attracted to worldly pleasure, he suffered but never regretted his decision because it is better to learn from every good and bad. As Siddhartha left his home in search of wisdom but later he differentiated between “searching and finding”. Searching for him is like a set goal where one will never let anything enter the mind except the Goal but if one will start Finding, we will spot and acknowledge everything around us. The Second part is like the second experience of “Siddhartha.”

The idea of Spirituality is what one will expect to know from the book. But there is nothing like a simple or direct definition of Spirituality as the concept of Spirituality is different for everyone. For some, it is living in the mountains while for others it is the regular struggle of living. Hesse explained one of the paths of spirituality in the book, which one can read to explore.