Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below in your own words:
Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below in your own words:
Once a poor woman came to Buddha. She implored him to give her any medicine to restore her dead son to life. The great teacher decide to pacify her by making her feel the hard realities of life. He asked her to bring handful of mustard seeds from any house where death had never entered. At one the sorrowful mother went from door to door for the mustard seeds. At one place a girl said, ‘I have lost my father’. At another place a man said, ‘My young son passed away last night’. The woman returned with a heavy heart to Buddha afer hearing similar tales of sorrow from every house. Buddha, the great teacher, consoled her, “My daughter’, one who is born is sure to die. So you must stop shedding tears and perform the last rites of your son.
Questions:
(i) Why did the woman go to Buddha?
(ii) What did Buddha ask her to do at the end?
(iii) What did she hear in every house?
(iv) How did Buddha console the woman?
Ans.
(i) The woman went to Buddha to implore him to give her any medicine to restore here dead son to life. (ii) He asked her to bring handful of mustard seeds from any house where death had never entered. (iii) She heard sorrowful tales of enevitable death from every house. (iv) Buddha consoled the woman by asking her to bring a handful of mustard seeds from any house where death had never entered. So doing he wanted her to realise the enevitablity of death.
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