Renamed Chapters

Part One

1. Shepard or Sheep?

               - Siddhartha wants to break away from his predestined life and wants to achieve his own enlightened path. He starts to try and figure himself out in the world but achieving dharma. Along with the help of Govinda, they want to join the Samana lifestyle, in order to show that yes they maybe "following" them but they are taking the following path to create their own destiny.

2. Patience and Discipline

               - This is the way of life the Samana's lived by, as well as, adjusting to starvation and loosing meaning to materialistic items. As Siddhartha was able to achieve the way of life the Samana's believe he did not feel that this only would help him achieve the enlightened path. 

3. The Enlightened One

               - Siddhartha and Govinda takes a journey and visits Gotama and his followers. They see the radiation of enlightenment that Gotama expels. He expresses to Siddhartha and Govinda that they way he reached enlightenment was by following the 4 Noble Truths, the Eighthfold Path and some of the similar practices of the Samana's beliefs. Gotama tells them that he had achieved this all by himself and if they want to follow similarly in his path, they must do so too.

4. Himself

               - Siddhartha learns that in order to achieve the enlightened path and nirvana he must learn from himself, understand himself and now himself. He realizes he must break away from everything and everyone and do this journey on his own.

Part Two

5. The Temptress

               - Siddhartha crosses paths with a courtsen named Kamala, whom he is engulfed with lust and enchanted by her appearance and more. Siddhartha asks her to teach him what love is and how to love. However, her seduction and sexual presences offers a better person to teach him what he looks to encompass the path of enlightenment.

6. The Temptress and a Finical Life

               - Kamala sees sex as work, in the eyes of a courtesen; she has learnt as a young child that this is her chosen destiny. However, to her she realized that Siddhartha may be the best lover she has ever been with, though her and Siddhartha know that they cannot truly love one another. Despite the love connection in this part of the chapter, Siddhartha is taken under Kamaswami's wing as a businessman. Siddhartha is shown the pleasures in life that Kamaswami has gained from being a businessman, but thinks back about the Samana lifestyle and that he still cannot indulge in those pleasures.

7. The Game of Life

               - Siddhartha goes back against his word on indulging into the pleasures of materialistic items that Kamaswami first tried to show Siddhartha in the beginning. Indulging into those materialistic items and a relationship with Kamala lasted for 20 years. Siddhartha basically for 20 years had played a game of life but with samsara, he faced a normal path of life, where one lives, suffers than dies. Where he realized he must move along from this phase of his life onto the next step of reaching enlightenment.

8. A Resoultion

               - Siddhartha leaves the city and reflects on his past journeys through his search for enlightenment. From living, and breathing the way of the Samanas, to living a rich and healthy normal businessman life, Siddhartha still sees the this course of enlightenment still has not been present in his thoughts. He realizes by the river that his affection towards this river is growing and that he must stay around here and that it may help with his search.

9. Time, Time, Time

               - Siddhartha learns from staying with Vasudeva that from the river that time does not exist, and with time, suffering, anxieties, self-torment, and difficulties is all anchored with this; all of these struggles will disappear once they are overcame.

10. The Love Child

               - After the death of Kamala, Siddhartha is embraced with the news that he has had a son for years and was not aware of this. As happy as Siddhartha is with this joyous news, his son is quite the opposite. Siddhartha's son is filled with wrath and rage against him and bubbles with a multitude of questions of why he did the things he did. The love of both Kamala and Siddhartha does not help their son understand that he is a product of love and an unconventional love.

11. Meditation is Key

               - Siddhartha uses meditation to help him get over the sorrow he had been inflicted with, and also to look back on the good, the bad, the laughter and the mourning. This helps Siddhartha realize he should not be doubting his place in life anymore or over thinking his actions. With this realization he stops battling his fate and he radiates with serenity, the enlightenment he always achieved for.

12. A Old but New Friend

               - Siddhartha is embraced by Govinda's presence back at the river because he is in search of enlightenment. Although, Govinda searches for this enlightened path, he crosses paths with the man that is said to have achieved this path, Siddhartha expels to Govinda that he is searching to hard to achieve his goal and than calls him by his name, "Govinda". Where he realizes that this is his old friend Siddhartha.