Siddhartha

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needs. He greets love openly and rests satisfied by the splendors his lover Kamalah. ’s contentment is terminated as he is presented with a controversial dream. He dreams that Kamala’s beloved bird is found dead: “ The bird, which usually sang in the morning, became mute and as this surprised him, he went up to the cage and looked inside/ The little bird was dead” (82). ’s freedom from religion and promiscuous behaviors cease along with the birds death, “ he felt horror and death in his heart/ He sat and felt himself dying, withering, finishing” (82). He recognizes the materialistic things including love itself, were insufficient: “Then knew that the game was finished, that he could play it no longer…he smiled wearily, shook his head and said goodbye to all these things” (84). ’s perpetual search for security and internal happiness ventures on.
is constantly flowing down the river of life, “Certainly I have learned that from the river too; everything comes back/ You, too, ...

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