Siddhartha discussion

All throughout the novel, Siddhartha embraces certain types of education and neglects others. He leaves the rich and noble life of the brahams, for the depriving ideology of the samanas; only to become a greedy merchant and be captivated by the lust of his lover, Kamala. Although throughout his life of trial and error he learned more than the Brahmin could ever teach him through words. Buddha’s teachings only offered knowledge, but what is knowledge: the ability to retain facts? For instance,”'I learned through my body and soul that it was necessary for me to sin, that I needed lust, that I had to strive for property and experience nausea and the depths of despair in order to learn not to resist them, in order to learn to love the world, and no longer compare it with some kind of desired imaginary world, some imaginary vision of perfection, but to leave it as it is, to love it and be glad to belong to it,” (Hesse 116). Siddhartha learned from experience that in order to experience the fruits of life you have to also suffer through the pain. That is why older people are considered “wise” they have more experience and have experienced ranges of emotions.Through pain you grow, and Siddhartha realizes that his suffering made him grow. We are born to suffer hardship and to inevitably fall into the insidious hands of death. Siddhartha's experiences give him the wisdom to understand this which changed the tone of this thoughts from pessimistic (in the beginning of the book) to realistic (towards the end)In your words describe the difference between knowledge and wisdom. Can you have knowledge without wisdom? Or wisdom without knowledge? What experiences affected him the most on his path to enlightenment? Could he have reached enlightenment with just knowledge or just wisdom?