o listen to what the river tells him. " 'The River has taught me to listen; you will learn from it too.' " (Pg 105) Siddhartha learns a lot from listening to the river. Then Kamala comes back to him with his new son, but then Kamala dies because she gets bitten by a snake. This brings down Siddhartha's morale. When he runs into Govinda after many years of not seeing him, he becomes happy again. When Govinda sees him after all of those years, he realizes that Siddhartha has now found inner peace. Throughout this novel, Siddhartha experiences some good times and some bad times. He even contemplates suicide at one point, but by the end of the novel he reaches peace with himself. It does take him a long time to gain this inner peace but in the end it is well worth it....
