How Did Siddhartha Contribute To Salvation

Siddhartha by Herman Hesse also contains many examples and suggestions on how people should live their lives and ways in which one can benefit from the time spent on this Earth. On page 33-34, Siddhartha communicates his beliefs as to why he will not pledge allegiance to the Buddha, and why he believes one cannot achieve salvation through teachings. “You have done so by your own seeking, in your own way, through thought, through mediation, through knowledge, through enlightenment. You have learned nothing through teachings, and so I think, O Illustrious One, that nobody finds salvation through teachings.” “It does not contain the secret of what the Illustrious One himself experienced--he alone among hundreds of thousands.” Siddhartha believes

However, even though the Buddha learned a different way than how he’s teaching, he still finds a purpose in trying to teach others about the steps to reaching salvation. On page 83-84 after Siddhartha becomes extremely rich and gets lost in money, gambling and alcohol, he realizes that he had wanted to be like the other normal humans to see what their lives were like, and now he finally understands their sorrows and struggles, and what excites them. He notices that he had left many different lifestyles to learn more, and that it was now time to leave this lifestyle of a Kamaswami. “Onwards, onwards, this is your path. He had heard this voice when he had left his home and chosen the life of the Samanas and gone to the Perfect One, and also when he had left him for the unknown.””Without knowing it, he had endeavored and longed all these years to be like all these other people, like these children, and yet his life had been more wretched and poorer than theirs, for their aims were not his, nor their sorrows his.” Siddhartha had switched his lifestyle multiple times, and at this point he was going to leave the new life he built for himself yet