The way to enlightenment is to do it alone, according to Siddhartha. What does Siddhartha learn at the end? In the end, after Siddhartha has learned all the lessons of the river, Vasudeva announces ...

When Siddhartha was a boy, he lived with his family in a great palace. One morning, he was playing by a river that flowed through the palace gardens. He watched as swans flew high above in the sky.