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The Search in Siddartha     Siddartha is a book of a human beingss struggle to find his true self. But his searching leads him in all the wrong directions. Then finally after a long move around he stops looking. During his search he discovers four things, what the oneness of life is, how the four alarming truths affect everything, enlightenment, wisdom and love. On page 142 and 143 Siddartha realizes that Atmen or the oneness of life is in everything. That no matter who you are whether the Buddha, the dice player, or robber, everything is Brahman. Even a rock is said to have Atmen, because eventually the rock would solve and become material for a human body. He understood that the human being needed certain outlets to release emotions, such as lust, desires, and wants. The four noble truths encapsulates the ideas of Siddartha, where he believes that the human needs outlets. Throughout the book Siddartha, he struggles with his desire to find himself. In his life Siddartha was a Brahmins son, a Samana, a lover, and a merchant. Through his life he realized that no matter what you are, everything suffers. He also learned that most of his sufferings come from his feature desires. As seen by his want for Kamalas love, he did almost anything for that love. Finally Siddartha realized that everything that fulfilled his desires was all illusion. In the end he became a ferryman and the actualisation of what life was all about hit him everything revolves around everything else and one must live life and enjoy it. Realization of himself came in two stages, the first was when he left Gotama, coming to the river on page 41 and 42. He realized that he had always tried to follow after the ways and in the paths of others, only now he needed to follow his desires and to just live life. The second time Siddartha was enlightened he was sitting by the same river with Vasudeva, on page 136 and 137, he realized that he must not fight against his destiny. This enlightenment rattling came when he distinguishd, to Govina on page 143, what he thought life actually was. It was not Samsara or Nirvana, but it was the realization that life is only illusion, a person just does what he can. Siddartha, on page 34, did not believe that a person could gain salvation through teachings, but that a person needed to find his salvation through himself and no words could ever describe ones enlightenment when he found it.