ddhartha wanted her to teach him about love, but she says that he has to be rich if he wanted her to teach him that. So he becomes a merchant and because he can think, wait, and fast, he soon become rich. He was at first having a fun time being rich and learning about love, but as time goes by, he loses how to think, wait, and fast. Life became pain to him and he drank wine everyday to escape for a few moments from it. So after many years, he ran away from this life, leaving his only close friend Kamala and his son, who was born after Siddhartha's departure.He comes back to the same river which a ferryman had once taken him across, when he was going to the large town for the first time. Siddhartha first thought of committing suicide, but he doesn't, and murmuring the holy Om, he had a long, wonderful sleep. When he awoke from his sleep, he saw Govinda in front of him. Siddhartha recognizes him in an instant, but because Siddhartha changed a lot, Govinda takes time to recognize him. After he does, Siddhartha talks that he was rich but now he's not. They separate for the second time.He meets the ferryman again. His name was Vasudeva and he was the person who said to Siddhartha that everything including Siddhartha will come back again to the river. Vasudeva was not a thinker, but was a great listener. Siddhartha decides to stay with him. He listened to the river with Vasudeva and learned a lot from it.One day, Kamala came to their hut, with Siddhartha's son. She was bitten by a snake and soon dies from it. Siddhartha loved his son, but the son was unfriendly and sulky. He was accustomed to the life of the rich, and he didn't see Siddhartha as a father, so he ran away from them and went back to the large town. Siddhartha fells very sad about that, and his heart gets wounded by this, but from the river he learns how to heal the wound and how to feel no sorrow.Siddhartha kept on listening to the river with Vasudeva. He heard...
