Siddhartha’s Wordsworth
...use he or she wants to fit in and be accepted. The definition he gained after a transformation would flee like a dream and left him in more confusion than he started out with. Siddhartha was just looking for a way out. We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance. This is what Siddhartha wanted, a second chance to become someone else but then he realizes he wanted to be who he was just in a state of higher enlightenment. Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better. At this point, Siddhartha is only at the encouraged stage. Once Siddhartha figured out it was up to him to do or make any change he wanted, he was inspired. For instance, “There is one thing that this clear, worthy instruction does not contain; it does not contain the secret of what the Illustrious One himself experienced—he alone among hundreds of thousands. That is what I thought and realized when I heard your teachings. That is why I am going on my way—not to seek another doctrine, for I know there is none, but to leave all doctrines and all teachers and to reach my goal alone—or die.” Siddhartha was now the lone star that shined in Shelly’s poem. Just like Shelly said, Siddhartha felt the pain just as everyone else did but unlike any other, he disapproved. That is because he figured out they always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. I think Siddhartha learned the art of teaching and that is the whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. He knew he wanted knowledge of Self and he was going to gain it. Only he would do it with himself as teacher, on his time, and on his own. He would now capable of giving that midnight roar Shelly speaks of and is gaining solidarity on his rock. Siddhartha greatest knowledge at this point is this: passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems rational because the teacher knows more than his pupils; it is moreover the way to win the favor of the teacher unless he is a very exceptional man. Yet the habit of passive acceptance is a disastrous one in later life. It causes man to seek and to accept a leader, and to accept as a leader whoever is established in that position. Now Siddhartha is at the confident stage. As Siddhartha’s confidence grew, he achieved what he wanted. He found what he was looking for and it went beyond what we all could have perceived. For example, “No longer knowing whether time existed, whether this display had lasted a second or a hundred years, whether there was a Siddhartha, or a Gotama, a Self and others, wounded deeply by a divine arrow which gave him pleasure, deeply enchanted and exalted, Govinda stood yet a while bending over Siddhartha’s peaceful face which he had just kissed, which had just been the stage of all present and future forms. His countenance was unchanged after the mirror of the thousand-fold forms had disappeared from the surface. He smiled peacefully and gently, perhaps very graciously, perhaps very mockingly, exactly as the Illustrious One had smiled.” Now who would have imagined this much growth in Self? Siddhartha grew to be a man standing alone on his rock. He was singing the songs of truth and liberty just as Shelly says. The truth was that did what n...