, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.” (115) .Siddhartha shares many teachings he has learned with Govinda. Siddhartha holds up a stone in example, showing that one thing is enfolded in the past, present, and future. He also stated that language is only a device, and that wisdom is not communicable. This means that, through experience, wisdom is attainable, but if you trying to teach enlightenment, the meaning will not be fully appreciated to whom it is taught . We also learn that not only Samana has left its mark on Siddhartha, but that also his brief contact with Buddha left its mark also. The Buddhist doctrine shows two opposites are Samsara and Nirvana. All truth has these two opposites, the truth side and the illusion side. When Gotama admits he has still not found peace, he suddenly has an inexpressible experience much like Siddhartha had when he met Vasudeva years before. Siddhartha then summons Govinda to kiss him on the forehead. Govinda feels as if he is touching perfection, the illustrious one, eternity, and gets a mystical transference from Siddhartha. Siddhartha sees in Govinda’s beautiful smile, a continuous stream of thousands of faces much like those Siddhartha saw many years earlier in the river. “Instead he saw faces, many faces, a long series, a continuous stream of faces-hundreds, thousands, which all came and disappeared and yet all seemed to be there at the same time, which all continually changed and renewed themselves and which were yet all Siddhartha” (121) At this point, Govinda had attained Nirvana, reaching the depths of the ancestral soul of man. “Incontrollable tears trickled down his old face. He was overwhelmed by a feeling of great love, of most humble veneration. (122)” Govinda had finally completed his quest for enlightenment....
