Siddhartha
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Narrated by:
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Harish Bhimani
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By:
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Hermann Hesse
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Hermann Hesse’s classic novel Siddhartha, takes place in ancient India around the time of the Buddha (6th century BC). Siddhartha and his companion Govinda set out in search of enlightenment. Siddhartha goes through a series of changes and realizations as he attempts to achieve this goal. Siddhartha joins the ascetics, visits Gotama, embraces his earthly desires, and finally communes with nature, all in an attempt to attain Nirvana. The novel shows how the path to enlightenment cannot be conferred to another person because it is different for everyone and will likely never be achieved simply by listening to or obeying an enlightened one. Words and teachings may describe the truth but are not the Truth itself; being concepts, they trap you, since enlightenment means release from concepts.
Public Domain (P)2008 Alpha DVD LLCOverall
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Amazing!
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It's NOT Buddha's story even though several covers show the picture of the Buddha. Maybe Hermann Hesse should have used some other name for the title character to avoid confusion.
The story of Sidhartha goes through 4 Ashrama's (stages) of person's life - Bramhacharya (Student), Grihastha (Household), Vanaprastha (Retirement) and Sanyas (Renunciation). It also touches the 4 Purusharthas (Aspects of one's life) viz. Dharma (difficult to translate but closer word is duty), Artha (money or work to earn it), Kama (pleasure - particularly sensual) , Moksha (enlightenment).
The narrator, Mr. Bhimani has immaculate pronunciations of Sanskrit words and it's pleasure to listen them.
The only suggestion is the editor should have paced the narration little slowly taking a time for the listener time to get the sinking of the ideas.
Apart from this, I would highly recommend the audio book to anyone who wants to go deeper and beyond the ephemeral.
Timeless Classic with excellent narrator.
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Everything and All You Need.
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very nice book on all levels
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