CLASS 10
THE SERMON AT BENARES
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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worldly pleasures
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sorrows of the world
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money matters
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political matters
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Detailed explanation-1: -Ans. Prince Gautama had been deliberately shielded from all the sufferings of the world. One day he chanced upon a sick man, then an aged man and then a funeral procession. Finally, he saw a monk begging for alms.
Detailed explanation-2: -(d) Gautam Buddha married after his schooling at the age of sixteen years. Question 2. At about the age of twenty-five, the Prince, heretofore shielded from the sufferings of the world, while out hunting chanced upon a sick man, then an aged man, then a funeral procession, and finally a monk begging for alms.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Buddha preached his first sermon at Benares. He preached that all men, women, and children are mortals. Also, all mortals are destined to die. Actually, death and decay are the fates of all mortals in this world.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Buddha gave his first sermon at Benares. It is the holiest of places on the hank of the Ganges. His first sermon reflects his wisdom about one kind of suffering, i.e., death. Here the Buddha tells us about the universality of death, which is inevitable and can’t be escaped.
Detailed explanation-5: -In ‘The Sermon at Benares’, the Buddha preached that death is inevitable and we need to overcome the suffering and pain that follows.