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प्रश्न
Answer the following question in 100-120 words:
How do Lencho in ‘A Letter to God’ and Kisa Gotami in ‘The Sermon at Benares’ respond to their experiences of suffering and loss? How did they overcome their respective losses?
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उत्तर
Lencho and Kisa Gotami respond differently to suffering. After hail destroys his crop, Lencho feels deep sorrow but turns to unwavering faith: he writes a letter to God asking for a hundred pesos; the postmaster and coworkers anonymously collect and send a partial sum, so Lencho’s material loss is alleviated through faith and human charity. Kisa Gotami, whose only son dies, at first seeks medicine house to house; the Buddha then asks her for mustard seed from a home untouched by death, prompting her to see death’s universality. She overcomes grief by relinquishing selfish clinging, accepting loss, and finding composure and inner peace.
