Siddhartha in Mala's World

          Siddhartha eventually fell under the spell of possessions and became successful, like Kamaswami. He began to look and act like a wealthy merchant, however his spiritual voice has died. He retreated to a pleasure garden to meditate, and realized that his life as a rich businessman has produced nothing. His relationship with Kamala gave him pleasure, but he knew it cannot continue forever. He knew he has been playing the game of Samsara, and decided to leave the city without informing anybody.

Samsara (noun): Samsara is the cyclical path of normal life in which one lives, suffers, and dies.
(Page 68, "No. This game was called Samsara, a game for children, a game which was perhaps enjoyable played once, twice, ten times-but was it worth playing continually?")

Potter's wheel (noun): A Potter's wheel is a machine used in the shaping of round ceramic ware.
(Page 61, "Just as the potter's wheel, once set in motion, still turns for a long time and then turns only very slowly and stops, so did the wheel of the ascetic, the wheel of thinking, the wheel of discrimination...")

Inertia (Noun): Inertia is a tendency to do nothing or to remain unchanged. 

  (Page61, "....so did the world and inertia creep into Siddhartha's soul; it slowly filled his soul, made it heavy, made it tired, sent it to sleep.")

Imperceptible (adjective): Imperceptible means impossible to recognize or be aware of.

(Page 62, "But slowly and almost imperceptibly, with the passing of the seasons, his mockery and feeling of superiority diminished.")

Covetous (adjective): Being covetous is to have or show great desire to possess something, typically something belonging to someone else.

(Page 63, "The world had caught him; pleasure, covetousness, idleness, and finally also that vice that he had always despised and scorned as the most foolish-acquisitiveness.")

Idle (adjective): To be idle is not being active.

(Page 63, "The world had caught him; pleasure, covetousness, idleness, and finally also that vice that he had always despised and scorned as the most foolish-acquisitiveness.")

Acquisitive (adjective): To be acquisitive is to be excessively interested in acquiring money or material things.

(Page 63, "The world had caught him; pleasure, covetousness, idleness, and finally also that vice that he had always despised and scorned as the most foolish-acquisitiveness.")