Siddhartha's Journey

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meditating with Govinda that he realized what he had
to do. In an attempt to reach the arrow's goal, he would leave his father
to join the Samanas who he thought had the secrets to finding the "self".
While with the Samanas Siddhartha learned many ways to escape the
"self". He would do this through meditation, abandonment of the body,
fasting, and the holding of breath. He abandoned his body through these
ways many times but would still always come back to being Self and
Siddhartha. He would come back to feel the torment of that life cycle.
Siddhartha soon found out that he was, in fact, going in circles. He saw
that he was not gaining any knowledge from temporary escape but he would
come back and find everything as it was before. This caused him not to
believe in the Samana's practices and eventually resulted in Siddhartha
leaving the Samanas to find spiritual enlightenment elsewhere.
The third part in Siddhartha's quest was the knowledge of "self".
This was after he had met and ...

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