Although Siddhartha grew wiser and wiser, he still felt wounded by his son. Siddhartha recognized Vasudeva as God himself. Vasudeva brought Siddhartha out to the river and told him there was something he had still not heard. With Vasudeva’s guidance, Siddhartha listened intently. For the first time he heard all the voices of the river as one single continuum of all life. Siddhartha used personification to describe how the river resembled suffering. He gave the river the human quality of a singing voice and described the voice of the river to be “passionate” and “lamented”. Siddhartha felt his soul merge into unity. Siddhartha saw that the river was inside of him now, as he had seen it in Vasudeva; it was his life, and it was Atman. Everything