Many events occur in the chapter "By the River". Siddartha leaves the town that he was in with Kamala to go down by the river to think more deeply and wonder what he can do to find his path to enlightenment. After meditation, Siddhartha awakes and notices a buddha next to him. The buddha that appears is Govinda. Siddhartha realizes many aspects to his path to enlightenment after his meditation and conversation with Govinda. During his meditation, Siddhartha sees the world around him as being very peaceful. Also, Siddhartha had a feeling of imperturbability and equanimity.
After Siddhartha is done meditation, he feels as if he was reborn again. Siddhartha did not have a feeling of austereness any more. "Never had a sleep so refreshed him, so renewed him, so rejuvenated him!" (Hesse 91). After he is done meditation Siddhartha realizes that he has been trying way to hard to find what he seeks. Just like a river flows, Siddhartha has to just take it easy and flow. When he flows, he will eventually find his path.
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After Siddhartha is done meditating, he realizes something very important. During his long journey thus far, he has been trying many different lifestyles and used different beliefs in his everyday life to seek happiness. When Siddhartha awakes from his meditation, a Buddhist monk, who happens to be his old friend Govinda, is watching over him. They have a friendly chat about what they have come across since they left each other many years ago, and then Govinda goes on his way. After Govinda lives Siddhartha, he begins to think. While he was mediating a message was sent to him. He realizes that he has been trying too hard to find his happiness and that the happiness he is searching for lies within him. All of the different religious movements he has tried to attach himself to has been mistakes and that he just needs to do it all on his own. As Siddhartha continues to sit by the river, he starts to develop an attachment to it and decides to not leave its side because it will help him delve into himself into to find happiness.
When Siddhartha realizes that his life in the village with Kamala is really a game, Samsara, and decides to leave, he goes back to the river, which he went to after leaving the Samanas. As he sits by the river he takes a long sleep, and he hadn’t slept like that in a very long time. He feels like he has been sleeping for ten years, and because of this sleep, he comes to a realization about the life he is living, he was senseless and meaningless. He hadn’t noticed the soft sounds of the world and didn’t see its color, because while living in the town, he had lost it. He finally saw the world as peaceful, and something that had more meaning than money and lust. He finally saw himself, as a man, Siddhartha, who was his own self and was unlike no other. He wanted to see the world, and find its true meaning.
Siddhartha leaves the village and goes to the river. He had feelings of hate sickness over the way he has been living his life. At first he wants to throw himself into the river, but he then enters a powerful meditation. When Siddhartha wakes up from his meditation, he is a new person. The deep concentration had performed an ablution on Siddhartha. He feels happy and embraces life with a new meaning. He sees that a monk is sitting nearby him asleep. The monk turns out to be his friend Govinda. Siddhartha and Govinda talk for sometime and it becomes clear to Siddhartha what he must do. He has to follow the path make his own way to enlightenment. After the meditation, Siddhartha feels like a child just beginning his search and he sees this as an oppurtunity to live the right way. His life in the town was a lesson that he had to learn so that he could find his way. After he wakes from his meditation, Siddhartha knows the way to find his happiness.
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