Siddhartha

Just finished reading this marvelous book and I wonder why I never got on my hands on it before. It definitely belongs in my top ten reads of all times.

The book resonated with me thoroughly. Lots of abstractions and vague notions that keep flitting through my head found such crisp expression in this book, I was completely vowed. The way Siddhartha refuses to accept teachers, the notion of experiencing the material world first before realizing the essence of spirituality, and the final stages where he insinuates the futility of words and thoughts (intellect) which just act as a barrier to enlightenment and spirituality are somethings I have always felt deep down.

Fascinating that Herman Hesse, a german, captures the Indian philosophy so well and expresses it so clearly.

On to The Unbearable Lightness of Being