Question

Attempt the following question in 100-150 words.

What lesson did Kisa Gotami learn the second time that she had failed to learn the first time?

Answer 1

Kisa Gotami was grieving over the death of her son. She moved from door to door looking for a cure for her son and at last came to Buddha. She made him a humble request to make her son alive. Buddha said he would do so but he first asked for a handful of mustard seeds from a house where no one had lost a child, husband, parent or friend. She went from house to house but was unable to find one where nobody had died. She was tired and hopeless and sat down at the way side watching the lights of the city as they flickered up. Then she realised that these lives flicker up for sometime and are extinguished again. This way she was taught that the lives of mortals in this world are troubled and brief and there is no means by which one could avoid death and death is inevitable. This was the lesson that Gautama Buddha wanted her to understand.