CLASS 10
THE SERMON AT BENARES
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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lights of a car
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lights of diwali
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lights of a city
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -She observed that they flared up and were went off again. watching them, she was considering the fate of the mankind. She found man’s life similar to the lights of the city as both flickered up, illuminated the world for sometime and then were extinguished to light up again. So she made a comparison.
Detailed explanation-2: -Ans. Kisa compared human life with the lights of the city which flicker up and extinguished again and the darkness of the night spreads everywhere. Similarly, the human takes birth, flickers up (in old age) and then get extinguished means die.
Detailed explanation-3: -Answer: The Buddha made kisa gotami realized the reality of death by giving a task to collect a handful mustard seeds from a house where no one died . but she failed to bring and came to know the subject of death .