Siddhartha
...please her and he learned many things about sex and pleasure. His goals changed drastically because he was now in the material world desiring material things and not caring about finding himself spiritually. Siddhartha became very unhappy with what he had become even though he had everything that he could ever want. So one day he left all the riches he had behind. Siddhartha met Vasudeva, the ferryman before he went to Samsara and he was very friendly to him. He said, “Everything comes back. You, too, Samana, will come back.” Sure enough Siddhartha came back, but he wasn’t the same person. He was very depressed and somber. Siddhartha wanted to start a new life and change what he has become. He heard himself say inside, “Love this river, stay by it, learn from it.” He ended up staying and living with him. He became happy again learned many new things about life and himself. Siddhartha’s son made him feel love for the first time in his life. “He felt indeed that this love, this blind love for his son, was a very human passion, that it was Samsara, a troubled spring of deep water. At the same time he felt that is was not worthless, that it was necessary, that it came from his own nature.” He realized that he had some...