... They reflected the status of Siddhartha's experience such as his childhood among the Brahmins, his ascetic wanderings with the Samanas, his pursuits with Kamala, and his awareness with Vasudeva. Symbols were shown as the potter's wheel, the caged bird, and the river. "The potter's wheel, once set in motion, turns for a very long time and then eventually stops; it is similar to the wheel of the ascetic, the wheel of thinking, the wheel of discrimination which revolve for a long time in Siddhartha's soul."4 Siddhartha's experiences were very similar to the process of making a pot. A beautiful production would come out from a disregarded lump of clay after some developments. A valuable life could be accomplished through striving and learning from experience. The first stage was that being a traditional Brahmin's son. In this stage, Siddhartha was well educated by the doctrine in Brahmin. However, he was not ...

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