Siddhartha: Overcoming Misfortunes Of The Past

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and son would
never be reconciled. Thus the situation Siddhartha had with Brahmin would be
repeated.

The quote can also be interpreted as a metaphor for time. Obvious
recurrences can be noted in time, suggesting that time repeats itself. Instead
of a river, another symbol can be used for time, perhaps a pool. According to
this quote, things repeat themselves in time. In a pool objects float around
until they finally make their way to the outlet. Events swirling around in time
without reconciliation are “trapped” until they are dealt with. The entire pool
makes up all that time is. All the experiences and thoughts of past, present,
and future that have not been dismissed all contribute to the whole of time.

If the quote stood alone, without the context of Siddhartha's
reflections on his father and his son, it would state that anything that isn't
finished through completion would forever hang in the cloud of time. “Every
thing that has not suffered to the end...” If something is ...

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