Siddharth comes to realize that the river is everywhere at the same time, in the mountain, through the land and in the sea. It teaches that “there is no such thing as time.” So too, Siddharth the boy, Siddharth the youth and Siddharth the man are only separated by shadows, not by reality. So too, is it with life and death. “Nothing was, nothing will be, everything has reality and presence.”
Excerpted from 'If you meet Buddha on the road, kill him!' by Sheldon Kopp
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This understanding frees Siddhartha from sorrow. He learns to open himself to listening to the river and hears its many voices. He hears the voice of every living creature in its voice, and when he can hear all of its ten thousand voices at the same time, it come to him as the sound of 'Om'. In this, he learns of the totality and simultaneity oof all being - man and nature alike.
Siddhartha continues to listen to the river. He hears the voices of his youth, of all the people he had cared about and lost. He hears the voice flow to the sea, sees the river water become vapor, rise up to the sky and fall again as rain and dew. He sees that no thing and no one is lost. He hears the 'om' of the perfect unity of all things.
according jain philosophy there r two things one is "dravya" and other is "paryay".dravya stands unchanged during infinite alterations in its "paryay".in simple , "paryay" means stage,position,,form which gets changing as the time passes.but "dravya'is firm,still,unchanged regardless of time.
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