Class 10. Eng.CBSE Sermon At Benares, First Flight,Imp. Question answer Theme Message Characters explanation Summary

Ch-10 

The Sermon At Benares

Message

The Buddha wants us to understand that this world is full of sufferings, death and decay. Death spares none. Death is the ultimate truth of life. Everything that is born today will die sooner or later.Buddha gave his first sermon at Benares. It is the holiest of places on the bank of the Ganges. His first sermon reflects his wisdom about one inscrutable kind of suffering i.e. death. Here, the Buddha tells about the universality of death which is inevitable and can't be escaped.

Theme

The Lesson focuses on the Buddha's message as contained in his sermon at Benares. The lesson highlights on the universal truth that suffering and death are inevitable aspect of human life.

Gautam Buddha

He was the prince named Sidhartha Gautama who left his kingdom for seeking a higher sense of knowledge. He gained his enlightenment from seeing the worlds pain - when he met a sick man, an aged man, a funeral procession and a monk begging for alms. After experiencing this he left his kingdom.

Question and answer 

Question 1.

When her son dies, Kisa Gotami goes from house to house? What does she ask for? Does she get it? Why not?

Answer:

After the death of her only son, Kisa Gotami was overcome with grief. She carried the dead body of her son in her arms and went from door to door asking for medicine to cure her child, but nobody could provide any medicine. For there is no such medicine available which can bring a dead person back to life.

Question 2. Kisa Gotami again goes from house to house after she speaks with the Buddha. What does she ask for? Does she get it? Why not?                    

   Answer:Gautama Buddha asks Kisa to bring a handful of mustard seeds from a house where death had never knocked at the door. Kisa Gotami went from door to door, but couldn’t find a single house where death had not taken a beloved away. She could not get it as death is inevitable and anyone who is born is bound to die one day.                      

  Question 3.   What does Kisa Gotami understand the second time that she failed to understand the first time? Was this what Buddha wanted her to understand?

Ans. Kisa Gotami understood the second time that death is common to all and that she was being selfish in her grief. There was no house where some beloved had not died. Yes, this was what the Buddha wanted her to understand.                      Question 4. Why do you think Kisa Gotami understood this only the second time? In what way did Buddha change her understanding? 

Answer:    Earlier, she could see only her grief. When she went from door to door the second time, she understood that everyone was dealing the with the loss of a beloved one. There was not a single house in the town, where death had not taken a father, a mother, a sister, a brother, son or a daughter. Everyone, at some point or the other, have experienced the death of their loved ones. This way she got aware that death is common to all human beings. 

Q5What did Kisa Gotami compare human life to? What made her do so?

Ans. Kisa Gotami compared human life with the city lights burning at night, which flicker up first and then extinguish again and the world is engulfed in darkness of the night. She made the comparison because she finally understood that all mortals took birth, lived life and when time came, their life too got extinguished (they died).          

 Q6. According to Kisa Gotami what is the greatest grief of life? Ans. According to Kisa Gotami, the greatest grief in life is the death of one's loved ones and one's inability to stop them from dying. Therefore, instead of lamenting on it, the wise should accept the truth of death.

Q7. Why did Prince Siddhartha Gautama leave the palace and become a beggar?                  Ans. Before he had come across the sick man, the aged man, the funeral procession and the monk begging for alms, during his hunting expedition, Prince Siddhartha Gautama lived a life of comfort, unaware of the sufferings of the world. After he chanced upon those sufferings, Siddhartha Gautama left his comfortable life at the palace and wandered off into the world seeking enlightenment, concerning the sorrows he had witnessed.       

 Q8. What did the Buddha preach to the people?

Ans. Buddha said that death is common to all mortals. You cannot avoid it. No amount of weeping and lamenting can lessen the pain or bring back the dead. This is why wise men don't grieve. Weeping and grieving rather spoil one's health and deprives one of peace of mind. To overcome sorrow, one must become free of sorrow.

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