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प्रश्न
Answer the following question in 80-100 words:
“The life of mortals in this world is troubled and brief and combined with pain ….” With this statement of the Buddha, find out the moral value that Kisa Gotami learnt after the death of her child.
उत्तर
Kisa Gotami was the mother of her only son and was grief-stricken when he died. Initially, she was only thinking about her grief and was, therefore, asking for a medicine that would bring her son back to life. When she met the Buddha, he asked her to get a handful of mustard seeds from a house where no one had died. He did this purposely to make her realize that there was not a single house where no beloved had died and that death is natural. When she went to all the houses the second time, she felt dejected that she could not gather the mustard seeds. Then, when she sat and thought about it, she realized that the fate of men is such that they live and die. Death is common to all. This was what the Buddha had intended her to understand.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
When her son dies, Kisa Gotami goes from house to house. What does she ask for? Does she get it? Why not?
What does Kisa Gotami understand the second time that she failed to understand the first time? Was this what the Buddha wanted her to understand?
How do you usually understand the idea of ‘selfishness’? Do you agree with Kisa Gotami that she was being ‘selfish in her grief’?
Answer the following question in 30-40 words :
How did Kisa Gotami realize that life and death is a normal process?
“Not from weeping nor from grieving will anyone obtain peace of mind"
If you had to use the message of the given quote from the Buddha’ssermon (The Sermon at Benares) to help the boy cope with the loss of his ball and what it signifies (The Ball Poem), what would you include in your advice?
Also, evaluate why it might be difficult for him to understand the notion.
"These sights so moved him that he at once went out into the world to seek enlightenment." What were the sights that moved 'him'?
Kisa Gotami admitted that she was being selfish in grief. Do you agree? Why/Why not?
Why did Kisa Gotami become weary and hopeless?
How does Buddha bring about a different perspective in Kisa Gotami's understanding of life?
Answer the following in about 100-120 words:
“As ripe fruits are in danger of falling early, so mortals when born are always in danger of death’. With this statement of the Buddha find out the moral values that Kisa Gotami learnt after the death of her child.
