Need Some Company?

                        
Awakening
The start of a feeling or awareness in a person.

 "Now it is over; I have awakened" p33
                             
 Example: Siddhartha thinks he has find his Self, he feels awakened.                                          

Hermit
A person who has withdrawn from society and lives a solitary existence.

"Even the most secluded hermit in the woods was not one and alone; he also belonged to a class of people" p34

Example: Siddhartha's life as a Samana.

Ostracize
To exclude or banish (a person) from a particular group, society, etc.

"... All this had been nothing to Siddhartha but a fleeting and illusive veil before his eyes, regarded with distrust, condemned to be disregarded and ostracized from the thoughts, because it was not reality, because reality lay on the other side of the visible" p38

Example: How lonely Siddhartha feels when he finally awakened and found his Self. He doesn't want to go back to his father because he doesn't feel like a Brahmin anymore.






Siddhartha first dreamed about a woman and then he had an encounter with one along the brook. Is he realizing he really needs company? He already decided he is not going back to his father because he is "no longer a Brahmin" (p33) Will this encounter suffice his need of company? Is he going to give up on his Samana side too? Since they are supposed not to interact with anyone else, apart from other Samanas, in any way.