Resumo de Siddartha - Hermann Hesse

Forhis rebellious spirit and his searchfor answers to the great quandaries of the human spirit, Hermann Hesse became ídolo of the cultivation and the hippie movementin the 50s, 60s and 70s. In this book, he withholds in the traditional thought of millenarian India, at a time where easternmysticism had not yetawakened the interest of the West, and only Schopenhauer had until then dedicated himself to the study of that philosophy. In romance, more than what simply to occupy of the rules of the eastern thought, Hesse creates a shunting line of this thought, with intention to advance still more in the question of the complete accomplishment of I and of the search of the truth of perfection.Siddartha is the saga of a son of the highest caste of old India, who as a Brahmin was raised in the study of the sacred Holy Writs and in the practice of sacrifices and meditations. However, his heart was not calm and his soul could not find peace. Determined to find the one whocould give himthe answers that his spirit yearned for, Siddartha abandons the house of his father to join a group of ascetics in the forest. With time,he becomes proper great shaman, mastering all the techniques of overcoming of the ego, hunger, the mortifications and meditations, to arrive at the conclusion that he will not be for the negation of himself exactly, of his physical body and its suffering, that he will obtain to live deeply the true desindividualização. Part then to the search of the other Siddartha, the Buddha, that one that the illumination reached, that one that knowing Nirvana, interrupted the inexorable cycle of the perpetual return. But the meeting with Illuminated and the its new doctrine, will only strengthen its certainty of that for proper experience you can only arrive at the truth on your own, and not through masters, doctrines and teachings. Thereforehe thought, being all personal experience, cannot be shared without it in its fullness. He believed firmly that only diving in the complete knowledge of himselfwould hesucceed in dominating and overwhelming the ego and to know truth at last. Siddartha abandoned the worshipper's life and dedicatedhis days to the learning of all the possible sensations and passions, being initiated by a beautiful courtesan in the sensual and material pleasures of everyday life. But in the end, he will only know the fatigue, the discouragement and the desperation. He evidences discouraged that in the search that undertook until there, he lost the beauty and the vigor ofhis youth, and the hope and the faith in himself. He decides then to finish with the proper life, that considers one spoils. A reunion with a simple man will change his path, however, and the old Brahmin starts to live a calm existence of simplicity and close contact with the elements of the nature, with whichhe nourisheshis spirit, increasing in wisdom. But the world still will reservefor hima last elucidating experience of manifestation of the ego and attachment to the passions human beings with the unexpected meeting of his son and in the exquisite suffering of his loss. After an entire lifetime of stubborn searching, in the end it will through the perception of the unity of the universe that Siddartha will reach the understanding of the meaning of the existence, and the final revelation of perfection.

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