The two old men were silent for a long time. Then as Govinda was preparing to go, he said: " I thank you, Siddhartha, for telling me some of your thoughts. Some of them are strange thoughts. I cannot grasp them all immediately. However, I thank you, and I wish you many peaceful days."Page 120
Inwardly, however, he thought: Siddhartha is a strange man and he expresses strange thoughts. His ideas seem crazy. How different do the Illustrious One's doctrines sound! They are clear, straightforward, comprehensible; they contain nothing strange, wild or laughable. But Siddhartha's hands and feet, his eyes, his brow, his breathing, his smile, his greeting, his gait affect me differently from his thoughts. Never, since the time our Illustrious Gotama passed into Nirvana, have I ever met a man with the exception of Siddhartha about whom I've felt: This is a holy man!
This is a passage from the last scene of the book. I think this provides closure in the theme of finding one's path. Although Siddhartha has gone a different way than the Buddha and denied his teachings he has still found a path to enlightenment. I feel like Siddhartha knew the way to his awakening from the time he left his fathers village therefore he had been holy sense his journey began. In a broder sense this passage tells me that all paths are correct, that if you follow the little voice inside of yourself you can accomplish your goal.
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