Siddhartha Chapter Rename

Chapter 1: Leaving Luxury  

In this chapter, Siddhartha decides to leave his home where he has been treated like royalty and has never had to worry about pain or ailment of any human being. His father had tried to hide those things from Siddhartha so he was only introduced to the "luxuries" of life. Everyone loved him there but he was unsatisfied so now he must leave all the amenities for the Samanas who live by an exactly opposite code and lifestyle. 

Chapter 2: Empty Abyss  

After leaving his home, Siddhartha joins the Samanas who believe in self-torture to get closer to the world around them. Siddhartha and Govinda do just that when they starve themselves and physically deprive themselves in order to reach this apparent source of enlightenment. It was said in the text that Siddhartha would mentally lose himself when doing these feats of strength and essentially was not making progress my "emptying" his body and mind. For this reason they both left the Samanas. 

Chapter  3: The Not So Enlightened One 

Here Siddhartha and Govinda leave the Samanas to find a man known as Buddha who they hope to follow and learn from. Once they finally see and hear from Buddha, Govinda is set on becoming a follower of Buddha and being one of his many students. Siddhartha doesn't see himself learning much from Buddha and decides to leave. Siddhartha thinks that Buddha is a very wise man but does not expect to reach enlightenment by following him. He leaves Govinda behind. 

Chapter 4: Eyes Wide Open 

His whole life, Siddhartha had been taught by others but in this chapter he leaves Govinda understanding that finding enlightenment will take learning and teaching himself. It is said that once you made this new life choice that he was "awakened" and he can see the world in a different way. 

Chapter 5: From Rags to Riches  

Siddhartha meets Kamala, a well known courtesan, that he wants to teach him love making. But Kamala refuses to do anything with him until he cleans himself up and gets a job. From here, Siddhartha cleans up, puts on nice clothes and even gets and interview through Kamala. He goes from a self-torturing Samana to a well dressed and potentially employed man. 

Chapter 6: Money Ain't The Motive  

Siddhartha gets the job from Kamaswami and starts to make a lot of money in the merchant's business. Even though he is very good at his job, his Samana ways keep him from finding interest and passion in the work he does. Kamaswami wants him to have more passion for the work but Siddhartha knows that merchant work  is hardly more than a experience to him. 

Chapter 7: Samana Who ? 

Siddhartha becomes more indulged with his new lifestyle where making money, drinking and having sex become more important to him. These sinful tendencies cloud his judgement and cause his Samana mentality to fade. When he sees that he is not living right he leaves his home.  

Chapter 8: Finding Solid Ground 

In this chapter, Siddhartha moves himself from the life of wealth and sits at a tree where he forces himself to think and reevaluate his priorities as well as what he really is looking for. After a deep sleep, he eventually laughs at the course of events he has gone through and begins to see the world the way he once did before his lavish living. 

Chapter 9: Just Listen  

Siddhartha meets Vasudeva, the ferryman once again and decides to live with the man after he was introduced to the voices of the river. Once Vasudeva had Siddhartha listen to the river, he felt more at peace and even learned things from just simply listening. The two men would even spend good portions of their day just sitting and listening to what the river had to say. 

Chapter 10: Love Given, Love Not Received 

After Kamala dies from a critical snake bite, her son, who is also Siddhartha's son, is left with Vasudeva and Siddhartha to take care of. while the boy tries to grieve his mother, Siddhartha puts in an effort to show the boy love and respect. Unfortunately the boy does not care for his father's love and constantly disrespects him. Eventually the boy runs away. 

Chapter 11: The Secrets in the River  

Finally siddhartha reaches enlightenment when he hears the river laugh at the patterns of life and hears the unity of voices in the river talk to him. He sees Vasudeva as God for helping now experience enlightenment and Vasudeva leaves him in charge as the official ferryman. 

Chapter 12: Siddhartha, The Enlightened One 

Here we see Siddhartha as a wise, older man that many look up to. Though he lives alone, people from all over talk about a wise ferryman who has much to learn from. Govinda goes to meet this ferryman only to find out that it is Siddhartha. Though Govinda could not understand the lessons Siddhartha was verbally giving him, a simple kiss on his forehead gave him everything he needed to know. Govinda had now experienced enlightenment and bowed to the very honorable Siddhartha.