Why did govinda stay with the buddha

Like Siddhartha, Govinda devotes his life to the quest for understanding and enlightenment. He leaves his village with Siddhartha to join the Samanas, then leaves the Samanas to follow Gotama. Why does Siddhartha leave gotama? Siddhartha explains to Gotama that he believes that Gotama is enlightened, but that he did not receive his enlightenment through the teachings of others.

When Siddhartha left his father, the Brahmin, and the elder of the Samanas, both father and the elder became enraged that Siddhartha chose to leave their teaching. What does Govinda realize at the end? Govinda is confused. Before leaving, he asks Siddhartha for any final words of wisdom.

Siddhartha tells Govinda to kiss him on the forehead. In this sequence, Siddhartha goes with Govinda to hear the teachings of Buddha, and Govinda remains with Buddha to become his disciple. Siddhartha, however, feels that everyone must find his own way to salvation and, hence, does not remain.

Govinda cannot recognize Siddhartha when he encounters Siddhartha by the river, nor can Govinda recognize the truth about his own search for enlightenment. Govinda stays true to the Buddhist path even though he has not achieved the wisdom he seeks, and he cannot see that the path has failed him. Knowledge can be conveyed, but not wisdom. He wakes Siddhartha up, and the two men go back to the river.

This lesson teaches it is impossible for one to impose his or her knowledge of the timeless on one who remains subject to the limits of time. Why was Siddhartha unhappy? Siddhartha was unhappy because he had begun to feel that the love of his father, mother, and friend were not enough.

His father and teachers had already taught him most of what they knew, but he still wanted to learn a lot more. Siddhartha suddenly feels awakened. He is filled with purpose. He declares that he will no longer submit to teachings, but he will learn from himself and be his own pupil. They engage in a deep conversation in which Siddhartha extols Gotama's doctrine of understanding the world as a complete, unbroken, eternal chain, linked together by cause and effect.

It is in this conversation that Siddhartha points out that the doctrine of salvation is neither shown nor proven. Gotama concedes the flaw in logic but asserts that his message is not for the intellectually curious, but that he seeks only to teach salvation.

Siddhartha again voices the central idea of the novel: He reminds the Buddha that the process of enlightenment which he underwent is unteachable, that there is no way of communicating first-hand experience to disciples.

One can find the secret of self-realization only by going one's own way. Siddhartha, speaking only for himself and not for the other pilgrims, tells of his resolve to leave all doctrines and all teachers behind and to reach his goal alone. As they part, the smile of the Buddha remains in Siddhartha's mind, and he associates it with a man who has conquered his self.

And even though Siddhartha feels that he has lost his friend Govinda to Buddha, he feels that he has gained something from Buddha — the inspiration of direct, firsthand contact with the Illustrious One, which further strengthens his resolve to conquer self. Yet Siddhartha again rejects formal doctrine for the same reason as before: Enlightenment defies structured doctrine and transcends the teaching process.

The formal doctrine of Buddhist salvation is briefly as follows: It includes a system of which the keys are alluded to in the text — that is, the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path. The Four Noble Truths include 1 the existence of pain, 2 pain's cause being desire or attachment, 3 the possibility of enduring pain by suppressing desire, and 4 the Eightfold Path to salvation.

This path involves right faith, right life, right language, right purpose, right practice, right effort, right thinking, and right meditation. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse. Topics Character Roles Protagonist, Antagonist Tools of Characterization. Govinda and Siddhartha leave their homes to live as Samanas. For three years they live as wanderers. They practice self-deprivation and rarely speak. Govinda counsels Siddhartha to have patience when he doubts whether he can learn any more from the Samanas.

When he learns about Gotama Buddha, Govinda wishes to go hear him teach.