I started reading this book at midnight and was up till 4 in the morning, intensely reading and trying my best to infer this wonder of a book. This made me take a plunge into reading this book and thus this is how I got my hands on this gem of wisdom and man my expectations from this book were on a totally different plane! My journey into this book - How I found the book? I’ve given out more copies of this book than any other.” “Siddhartha by Herman Hesse - I love this as a classic book on philosophy, a good introduction for someone starting out. He was just an ordinary human being, but in a poetic flight, he has written one of the greatest books in the world, Siddhartha.”Īnd recently I was reading The Almanack of Naval Ravikant by Eric Jorgenson, and I found this book yet again in his book recommendations. “Hermann Hesse’s Siddhartha repeats the story of Buddha in a different way, but in the same dimension, with the same meaning. Thanks to those timeless hours and hours that I spent on Goodreads, I already knew about this book but what actually gave me the impetus to actually read was when I found this book in Osho’s recommendation and thus it landed on my to-read list’s books requiring immediate attention. My expectations - Why did I pick up this book? The book was written in German in 1920, translated to English in 1950 by Hilda Rosner and became highly influential in the 1960s setting that whole generation ablaze with its wisdom. I don’t want to write a synopsis, you can find that on Wikipedia so let’s talk here about what you can’t find elsewhere. Siddhartha has rightly earned its spot as the flagship of spiritual books. It’s loosely based on the life of Gautama Buddha whose birth name was ‘Siddhartha’. It’s ironic that this book technically has nothing to do with Buddha and yet has everything to do with him. The book is inspired by Buddhism and Hinduism. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse is a 1922 novel that deals with the spiritual journey of Brahmin boy Siddhartha and his friend Govinda and how he finally attains nirvana.
I read it again, to be able to be more objective and not biased to its impeccable reputation. Siddhartha is a highly acclaimed book, hence it is very difficult to be objective and critically think about a book that has a Nobel Prize (in Literature) winner as its author and has stood the test of time, and is very much relevant even today after almost a century.
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