Abstract
The sacramental journey towards self-realization and self-purification has always been a rite of passage in the Indian culture. The journey which concurrently allows the ‘pilgrim’ to both evade and experience the divine is profoundly elucidated in Herman Hesse’s Siddhartha. The paper attempts to explicate how the work coalesce the outwards (physical) and inwards (spiritual) journey in Siddhartha’s quest for self-discovery.
