Rescue From Without

"Siddhartha was transitory, all forms were transitory, but today he was young, he was a child--the new Siddhartha--and he was very happy. These thoughts passed through his mind. Smiling, he listened to his stomach, listened thankfully to a humming bee. Happily he looked in the flowing river. Never had a river attracted him as much as this one. Never had he found the voice and appearance of flowing water so beautiful. It seemed to him as if the river had something special to tell him, something which he did not know, something which still awaited him...The new Siddhartha felt a deep love for flowing water and decided that would not leave it again so quickly." (100)

Siddhartha begins to respect the river here, and in result, begins helping himself. After a second time with the river, he starts to feel the spiritual connection with it, and is making him happy. This is the "voice from the past", that will later help him with his freedom to live.  The line, "It seemed to him as if the river had something special to tell him, something which he did not know, something which still awaited him," is super important and is more foreshadowing for what the river will later do for him. The fact the river is helping him now, is what makes this a rescue from without. Siddhartha, who wanted to die because of the materialism that once overtook him, is now finding happiness in something as simple as water.