Question

Answer the following question in 40 - 50 words:

‘Why did Kisa Gotami, in her grief, fail to realize the universality of death and what does she ask for despite the impossibility of reviving the dead?
(The Sermon at Benares)

Answer 1

Blinded by grief over her son’s death, Kisa Gotami fails to understand that death is universal. She goes from house to house asking for medicine to bring her child back to life, not realizing that revival of the dead is impossible.