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= Janaya's Self-Realization Digital Scrapbook = This is the place where I will write about the journey I follow to self-realization. My goal is to gain wisdom and takes steps towards enlightening myself. I will be following the journey of Siddhartha, the title character of Herman Hesse's Siddhartha, as a model for my own journey. The steps I have taken follow.

=__// 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 chips, because it is not a need.

Getting Started:
At the beginning of the week it was kind of a hard task. Since i was used to eating chips everyday durning the summer, it became an essential need in my everyday need. I usually ate after school as a snack or while I was in school. I ate things that could take the place of chips. Such as preztals or fruit. I tried to eat more fruit because its heathier, But it just was not the same. I love fruit in all, but chips are really good.

Mid-Week:
By Mid-Week, I was doing good until my mother brought my favorite chips. Utz's brand of Kettle Classics Gourmet Dark Russet chips. I absolutely love this chips. My mom tempted my by crunching on the chips hard and saying mhmmm thats so good. I almost gave up but i continue to stay strong.

By The End:
By the end of the week, i didnt really want them. said to myself that I really didn't need these chips. I can use substitution, or thing that are healthier in place of those chips. I still eat Dark Russets sometimes, just not as often as i did.This also shows the path of the Buddha, Siddhartha, who thought that too much self-denial was not the path to Enlightenment. But now, I see that while I read the Samanas this week, my conclusion was different than Siddharthas: this self-denial is certainly the path for me.

=//__ Awakening __//=

The Quote:
What does Siddhartha's "Awakening" look like? Is this the same thing as reaching Enlightenment? In the text, Siddhartha becomes awakened to the world around him after leaving the Samanas and Gotama (the Buddha). He sees "the world for the first time. The world was beautiful strange and mysterious. Here was blue, here was yellow, here was green, sky and river, woods and mountains, all beautiful, all mysterious and enchanting, and in the midst of it, he, Siddhartha, the awakened one, on the way to himself. All this, all this yellow and blue, river and wood, passed for the first time across Siddhartha's eyes. It was no longer the magic of Mara, it was no more the veil of Maya, it was no longer meaningless and the chance diversities of the appearances of the world, despised by deep-thinking Brahmins, who scorned diversity, who sought unity. River was river, and if the One and Divine in Siddhartha secretly lived in blue and river, it was just the divine art and intention that there should be yellow and blue, there sky and wood -- and here Siddhartha. Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them" (39).

Analysis:
I pick these colors because the paragraph portrayed these colors. The paragraph also explained the mountain and usually rivers cut through mountains so thats why I drew that. The paragraph mention something about a forest. So I made a little forest. When i was coloring the river, as you get closer to river the color the water gets lighter. As you get further away it gets darker, then eventually fades away.

=__ Kamala __=

Name: Kamala Location: I live in India, in a villiage Eyes: My eyes are natural dark, I just wear contacts sometimes (51) Hair: My hair is black (51) About Me (looks): I have a "bright, fair face" (51) Hobbies / Profession: I am a "well-known courtesan" (51) I "placed [my] left foot on his right and moved [my] body like a woman inviting a man to the style of lovemaking..." (28) Looking For: A young man (54)

=__ Samsara __= 1. Wake up 2. Check Instagram 3. Eat breakfast 4. Brush teeth 5. Get dressed 6. Go to school 7. Chill with Zak 8. Go to Classes 9. Do homework 10. Watch tv 11. Listen to music 12. Get on instagram

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