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B"Parmila Kafley's Scrapbook
=With the Samanas=

=The assignment= To get a feeling for how the Samanas, Indian ascetics that are found in the novel //Siddhartha//, try to reach enlightenment, we gave up something we enjoy for a week. I chose to give up facebook, because its something I do every single day.

Beginning of the Week
First few days of giving up Facebook was easier then I thought. I think it was easy because I was already trying to give facebook up.The reason why i was giving up Facebook was because it was a waste of time and it was keeping me from doing good in school. I missed going on Facebook everyday after returning from school and catching up with friends from different states or country who I usually don't see everyday.

Middle of the Week
During the middle of the week, I was a bit tempted to open Facebook but I was determined not to open it. It always felt like I was forgeting to do something when I went home after school. I got more and more curious about what my friends were doing and what was going on. I kept remembering my friends all the time. I imagine what siddhartha might have felt being away from his family after living his whole life with them. But he did have his friend Govinda. In the book siddhartha says "he fasted for 15 days, he fasted for 20 days"(Hesse 7) and I was starting to question on wheather I would really learn something from giving up facebook.

End of the Week
By the end of the week, it seemed like it had been a month since I had logged into Facebook. I felt the desire inside me urging me to log on to Facebook but I remained strong, I controlled my desire. Siddhartha's goal was "to become empty, empty of thirst, empty of wishes, empty of dreams, empty of joy and sorrow"(7). My goal was not similar to Siddhartha's but I was as determined as he was to achieve is goal. When the week was over, I thought about totally giving up Facebook but decided not to give up. In the book Siddhartha says "I do not desire to walk on water," and " let old samanas content themselves with arts of that kind"(14) and I agree with that because if I do not wish to do something than I will not do it.

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=**Awakening**= Siddhartha reached awakening after he meet Gotama. To him, "the world was beautiful and colorful; the world was strange and mysterious". He saw that color was everywhere, "Here was blue, here was yellow, here was green; the sky and the river flowed, the forest and the mountains were fixed in their places" I chose to draw the mountains, rivers and the two paths because he had a journey "as he headed no longer for home, no longer to his father, no longer backwards".

=** kamala **=




 * Name ** : Kamala


 * Location ** : "A palace with a nice grove"(28).


 * Eyes ** : "dark eyes clever and alert with high arches eyebrows"(28).


 * Hair ** : "High-piled black hair a very fair and very soft"(28).

**About Me (** What is Kamala like? **Think about STEAL/Indirect Characterization** What makes her so appealing to Siddhartha? p.52-53 ) I am a beautiful women who is fearless. I have "high piled black hair a very fair, very soft, very clever face, bright red lips like a newly opened fig, eyebrows well tended and painted in teh form of high arches, dark eyes clever and alert, a long, fair neck emerging from the green-and-gold outer garment, fair hands at rest, long and narrow, with wide gold bracelets at the wrists"(28). I am willing to help who is rich and handsome about love. I am a good observer for details. I have "no lack of clothes, shoes, armbands, and every beautiful thing"(32).

**Hobbies / Profession** (What does Kamala do for a living? How does she like to spend her time? p. 30) I teach people about love. I am an "instructress"(30).

**Looking For (**What does Kamala want in a man? Look at her requirements for Siddhartha... p. 30) "He must have clothes, handsome clothes, and shoes, good-looking shoes, and a lot of money in his purse"(30). When men visit me they "come in fine clothes, they come in elegant shoes, they have perfumed hair and money in their purses"(30). That is what I look for in men.

= Samsara =

Quote from Siddhartha
"He had become wealthy; for some time he had had a house of his own, his own servants, and a garden in the suburbs by the river.(40)"

(From pixton.com) = Analysis = My life is very simple. I wake up arount 7:00 or 7:15 and wish to go back to sleep every single day. After waking up, I get ready for school. Then I eat breakfast around 7:45 and leave for school around 8:00 or 8:05. Siddhartha felt that "No matter how easy it was for him to talk to everyone, he was nevertheless fully aware that there was something that there was something that set him apart from them, and alienating factor was his experience as a samana"(38). I am also like that, I get along with everybody and talk to everybody but I feel something different about me apart from everyone. I don't know wheather its that fact that I was not born in america or just simply because i am a different individual. Then I go to home where I chat with my friends on my computer.

= By the river =

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Song: "ferry 'cross the mesery" by Gerry and The pacemakers

 * Lyrics **
 * "**Life goes on day after day"
 * Quote From The Book**
 * "**Now, when I am no longer young, when my hair is already half gray, when my strength is giving out, now I am starting from the beginning again, from childhood!"(51)

In the song the singer says that "Life goes on day after day". This is the same for Siddhartha, he started out as a young samana and when he got old he ended up as a merchant. For siddhartha, time never stopped, day after day he learned, grew old and spent his life with kamala. At times he might have regreted his life or enjoyed his life but time kept passing.
 * Analysis**

media type="youtube" key="-amun8AG5ME" height="250" width="447" =Song: "Moon River"= "Two drifters, off to see the world There's such a lot of world to see We're after the same rainbow's end, waitin' 'round the bend"
 * lyrics:**

"I shall go; from his hut my path once led me to a new life, which has now grown old and has died-- let my present path, too, my present new life, take its start there!(54)"
 * Quote From the book:**

The lyrics say "two drifters, off to see the world" and that is how I imagined the relationship between Siddhartha and the river is like. Both, river and Siddhartha, seem like they are in an adventure to see the world. They both never stop journeying the world and the experiences of the world. media type="youtube" key="r-gH9CaHI2M" height="315" width="420"
 * Anaysis:**

Song: "Bottom of the river by Adam Arcuragi"
"I will lay on the bottom of that river Spending my time where old sorts go to die"
 * Lyrics:**


 * Quote:** "Have you, too learned the secret from the river: that there is no such thing as time?(56)"


 * Analysis:** The lyrics talks about the time never ending and the quote also hints that because there is no such thing as time because it is unnoticeable since it never ends.

OM As soon as Siddhartha saw Kamala, he fell head over heals for her. When Siddhartha asked her to be his girlfriend she described him like this; “He must have clothes, handsome clothes, and shoes, good-looking shoes, and a lot of money in his purse, and gifts for Kamala”(Hesse 30). Siddhartha was very poor and without a job. So, Siddhartha went to Kamaswami who taught him all about business. Siddhartha was a quick thinker, clever, and very patient. He soon became very rich, yet he never took business seriously like Kamaswami because “Here, with kamala, lay the value and meaning of his present life, not in Kamaswami’s commerce”(36). The store that Siddhartha and Kamaswami both owned was growing and profiting very well to both of them. Siddhartha never cried over the loss and never rejoiced in the profit he made instead he gave it to the poor. As time passed, Siddhartha got more attached to the business world and more and more he became like Kamaswami. Siddhartha learned the joy in money, power, beautiful clothes, and women yet still felt the loneliness and sadness inside him. Siddhartha also became “stricter and pettier in his business dealings”(43). Now, he had everything he could ever want money, power and wealth but he had lost Kamala’s heart. Kamala wanted Siddhartha to be rich and wealthy but she did not want to be with a man who did not give her any importance. The store’s profit started going down and he soon fell into debt. Siddhartha lost everything; he lost his wealth and power. At that moment, he had a flash back of his life, about being poor and Kamala. Now, with the store gone he was back to where he was in the beginning. He had neither money nor power but something inside him felt happy to leave the world of business. Now Siddhartha could start over, he could begin from when he started but now with different mindset.