What goes around comes around. That’s the basic rule of our
lives and the main essence of this book; with of course lot many other lessons
at the reader’s disposal. Now such books have different effect on different
people and that’s how it supposed to be.
In simple words, this novel is about Siddhartha, not Buddha,
but a simple man. He showed by way of various instances how flawed is every
human being but amidst those flaws, happiness can be found though there are
higher goals he could work towards but before realizing that or reaching such
goals, one needs to lead a life one is meant to, to experience love, hate,
lust, passion, greed, dishonesty, and various others human virtues and vices to
eventually realizing the main purpose one should live for or rather die for.
Now there’s always time and place for everything and reading
a particular thing at a certain point of life and this book is one of them. Since I mentioned
it’s a very individualistic novel, it might not appeal to everyone at every
time but it must or shall I say, it should appeal to everyone at some point of
time because simply, what can’t be conveyed by Almighty directly can be
conveyed indirectly through words of a fellow human being.
It can easily be regarded as a work for human development or
their thought process than a work of literature. One can pick it up to answer
their unsolved riddles or inescapable dilemmas. It can be your companion
sitting royally on the book shelf, always at your service in your hour of need.
For me it’s a Five stars *****
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