English Confluence By CL Gautam

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 experie...