The Importance of Sacrifice in Hesse’s Siddhartha

In Hermann Hesse 's novel "Siddhartha", Siddhartha is a young Brahman, and with his beloved friend Govinda leaves his hometown to find enlightenment. They joined the group of asymmetric Samana and over the years Siddhartha and Govinda have denied their physical pain and sensation including the outside world. But Siddhartha was not satisfied with the result and could not find the real way of enlightenment he was seeking. In addition, Siddhartha gave up his ascetic life for dissatisfaction and he visited, heard the Gautama Buddha's speech, and learned from him.

Using Hesse Siddhartha to reflect the atmosphere of the legendary Buddha "Siddhartha" is one of the historical Gautama's names and Hesse's character is somewhat similar to his history's life. Siddhartha is by no means a fictitious life of the Buddha, but contains many content about Buddha's philosophy and his teachings. Hesse's Siddhartha is not intended to portray the life of Gautama in Buddha, but he was attributed to this name and many others

Siddhartha is a novel by Hermann Hesse, depicting a spiritual journey of self discovery by a man named Siddhartha between Gautama Buddha. This book is Hesse's ninth novel, written in a simple and lyrical style in German. It was announced in the United States in 1951 and became influential in the 1960s. Hesse dedicated the first part to Romain Rolland and the second part to his cousin Wilhelm Gundert. In the Sanskrit word the word Siddhartha consists of two words, siddha (achievement) + artha (content search), which together are "a person who has found a meaning (existence)" or "reached the goal In fact, before he gave up, the name of Buddha himself was the prince of Kapilavastu Kaidhartha Gautama. In this book, Buddha is called "Gotama"

Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha talks about the life and spiritual journey of Sutdhartha, the modern Brahmin Buddha. The name of Siddhartha, in Sanskrit, the words "accomplishment" and "what is being searched" are compared with the Buddha itself, which was the same name as when he himself was the prince. Siddhartha is not satisfied with his spiritual condition as Brahman and is immersed in various other philosophies of life. He became a summer for enlightenment, encountered the Buddha, and tried a urbanized material lifestyle, but these choices made him impossible.