Smitten, Siddhartha determines to met her and enters town to make himself presentable.Ī couple of days later, Siddhartha returns to the grove where he saw the beautiful womanhe learns in town that she is a courtesan named Kamalaand begs to meet her. Leaving the woman, Siddhartha continues on to a large town where he sees a beautiful woman being carried on a sedan chair by her servants.
He stops, though, just before the point of intercourse because his inner voice commands him not to do so.
Siddhartha then comes to a village where he meets a woman with whom he comes close to having sex. Siddhartha admits to having no money to pay for the voyage, but the Ferryman says that friendship is payment enough. The next morning he meets the Ferryman and crosses the river. There he dreams of suckling the bosom of a woman and tasting the pleasures of life. Having left Govinda and the Buddha, Siddhartha spends the night in a Ferryman's hut. Siddhartha, then, resolves "only strive after whatever the inward voice commanded him, not tarry anywhere but where the voice advised him" (48). The Self is a totality which cannot be understood through only one aspect. Neither, though, is the Self to be trapped in the net of senses. He reflects on his previous experiences and realizes that "he had never found his Self, because he had wanted to trap it in the net of thoughts" (47). After rejecting his former beliefs about the world's suspicious, illusory character, Siddhartha becomes enthralled by its beauteous details.
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