1) Why does Siddhartha leave his father?
Siddhartha left his father because he did not just was to be a follower of tradition he wanted to find the experience the notion that he had that the answers with what he needed was not in what he could be taught but by experience.
2)What are some of the reasons why writers like Herman Hesse would be interested in Eastern philosophy and religion?
I think it is because western religion is to them what eastern philosophy is to Siddhartha, it emphasis the spiritual and requires the individual to reject his natural self and experiences.
3) If Siddhartha never lived with Kamala and the people in the city would he have reached Enlightenment faster?
I do not believe he would, with out experience the thing that drove him to his down fall he would have never hit his rock bottom and would never find though his spiritual teaching what he was so searching for.
4) Who is Vasudeva?
Vesudeva is the man whom navigated the boat across the river. Siddhartha learns allot from him about life and the oneness with the universe through the river. Siddhartha also believed he might have been a god.
5) Why does Siddhartha feel the priests cannot see the true beauty of the world?
He thinks so because they have never experienced the other side, they only have the teaching but no real idea of what it is because for one it cannot be expressed in words. Also they have a particular numbness to the world that hinders them from experiencing the beauty of the world.
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