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Yesterday I read a novel by author Hermann
Hesse "Siddharta ". I want to share it with you all. I am
attaching a soft copy of the same with this mail.
Hermann Hesse in this book have brought forward that only knowledge can be transferred not wisdom. you can learn knowledge but not wisdom.
Actually he has illustrated the futility of thinking and incapability of words to express wisdom. No word in our dictionary is able to express
ourself. No method of learning can teach truth. Infact the word "learn" or "teach" are not complete to describe the process of attaining
wisdom. Again I will say that using the phrase "attaining wisdom" is also wrong.
A man can only through his experience get to wisdom. Mind has its limitations it can lead to questions not answers. the problem with us is that we try to
derive answers from mind which it is incapable . Only when you have exhausted the limits of mind you can realise that it is futile. The real thing exist beyond
mind.
Only when you give up you will get all. I know that this all will sound foolish . It is because we are so used to the ways of mind .
I know that all words which i write in this mail are incapable to tell you anything . I only write them to arise a little curiosity in you.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Born in 1877 in Calw, on the edge of the Black Forest, HERMANN HESSE
was brought up in a missionary household where it was assumed that he
would study for the ministry. Hesse's religious crisis (which is often recorded
in his novels) led to his fleeing from the Maulbronn seminary in 1892, an
unsuccessful cure by a well-known theologian and faith healer, and an
attempted suicide. After being expelled from high school, he worked in
bookshops for several years - a usual occupation for budding German
authors.
His first novel, Peter Camenzind (1904), describes the early manhood
of a writer who leaves his Swiss mountain village to encounter the world.
This was followed by Beneath the Wheel (1906), the story of a gifted
adolescent crushed by the brutal expectations of his father and teachers, a
novel which was Hesse's personal attack on the educational system of his
time.
World War I came as a terrific shock, and Hesse joined the pacifist
Romain Rolland in antiwar activities--not only writing antiwar tracts and
novels, but editing newspapers for German prisoners of war. During this
period, Hesse's first marriage broke up (reflected or discussed outright in
Knulp and Rosshalde), he studied the works of Freud, eventually underwent
analysis with Jung, and was for a time a patient in a sanatorium.
In 1919 he moved permanently to Switzerland, and brought out
Demian, which reflects his preoccupation with the workings of the
subconscious and with psychoanalysis. The book was an enormous success,
and made Hesse famous throughout Europe.
In 1922 he turned his attention to the East, which he had visited
several times before the war, and wrote Siddhartha, the story of an Indian
youth's long spiritual quest for the answer to the enigma of man's role on
this earth. In 1927 he wrote Steppenwolf, the account of a man torn between
his individualism and his attraction to bourgeois respectability, and his
conflict between self-affirmation and self-destruction. In 1930 he published
Narcissus and Goldmund, regarded as "Hesse's greatest novel" (The New
York Times), dealing with the friendship between two medieval priests, one
contented with his religion, the other a wanderer endlessly in search of
peace and salvation.
The Journey to the East appeared in 1932, and there was no major
work until 1943, when he brought out Magister Ludi, which won him the
Nobel Prize in 1946. Until his death in 1962 he lived in seclusion in
Montagnola, Switzerland.
Hermann Hesse in this book have brought forward that only knowledge can be transferred not wisdom. you can learn knowledge but not wisdom.
Actually he has illustrated the futility of thinking and incapability of words to express wisdom. No word in our dictionary is able to express
ourself. No method of learning can teach truth. Infact the word "learn" or "teach" are not complete to describe the process of attaining
wisdom. Again I will say that using the phrase "attaining wisdom" is also wrong.
A man can only through his experience get to wisdom. Mind has its limitations it can lead to questions not answers. the problem with us is that we try to
derive answers from mind which it is incapable . Only when you have exhausted the limits of mind you can realise that it is futile. The real thing exist beyond
mind.
Only when you give up you will get all. I know that this all will sound foolish . It is because we are so used to the ways of mind .
I know that all words which i write in this mail are incapable to tell you anything . I only write them to arise a little curiosity in you.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Born in 1877 in Calw, on the edge of the Black Forest, HERMANN HESSE
was brought up in a missionary household where it was assumed that he
would study for the ministry. Hesse's religious crisis (which is often recorded
in his novels) led to his fleeing from the Maulbronn seminary in 1892, an
unsuccessful cure by a well-known theologian and faith healer, and an
attempted suicide. After being expelled from high school, he worked in
bookshops for several years - a usual occupation for budding German
authors.
His first novel, Peter Camenzind (1904), describes the early manhood
of a writer who leaves his Swiss mountain village to encounter the world.
This was followed by Beneath the Wheel (1906), the story of a gifted
adolescent crushed by the brutal expectations of his father and teachers, a
novel which was Hesse's personal attack on the educational system of his
time.
World War I came as a terrific shock, and Hesse joined the pacifist
Romain Rolland in antiwar activities--not only writing antiwar tracts and
novels, but editing newspapers for German prisoners of war. During this
period, Hesse's first marriage broke up (reflected or discussed outright in
Knulp and Rosshalde), he studied the works of Freud, eventually underwent
analysis with Jung, and was for a time a patient in a sanatorium.
In 1919 he moved permanently to Switzerland, and brought out
Demian, which reflects his preoccupation with the workings of the
subconscious and with psychoanalysis. The book was an enormous success,
and made Hesse famous throughout Europe.
In 1922 he turned his attention to the East, which he had visited
several times before the war, and wrote Siddhartha, the story of an Indian
youth's long spiritual quest for the answer to the enigma of man's role on
this earth. In 1927 he wrote Steppenwolf, the account of a man torn between
his individualism and his attraction to bourgeois respectability, and his
conflict between self-affirmation and self-destruction. In 1930 he published
Narcissus and Goldmund, regarded as "Hesse's greatest novel" (The New
York Times), dealing with the friendship between two medieval priests, one
contented with his religion, the other a wanderer endlessly in search of
peace and salvation.
The Journey to the East appeared in 1932, and there was no major
work until 1943, when he brought out Magister Ludi, which won him the
Nobel Prize in 1946. Until his death in 1962 he lived in seclusion in
Montagnola, Switzerland.
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