CLASS 10
THE SERMON AT BENARES
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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He saw a sick man, a rich man, a learned man and a beggar.
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He saw a sick man, then an aged man, then a funeral procession and finally a monk.
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He saw a sick man, an aged man, then a funeral procession and finally a merchant.
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -During his early life, Buddha lived as a royal and was shielded from the sufferings of the world. But when he was at the age of twenty-five while hunting one day, he saw a sick man, an aged man, then a funeral procession, and finally, a monk begging for alms. Thus he was exposed to the sufferings of the world.
Detailed explanation-2: -Answer: Siddhartha Gautama was a prince who was protected from the sufferings of the world. At the age of twenty-five, he came across a sick man, an aged man, a funeral procession and a monk begging for alms.
Detailed explanation-3: -He saw four sights: a man bent with old age, a person afflicted with sickness, a corpse, and a wandering ascetic. It was the fourth sight, that of a wandering ascetic, that filled Siddhartha with a sense of urgency to find out what lay at the root of human suffering.
Detailed explanation-4: -Then while going out for hunting, he came across by chance a sick man, an aged man, a funeral procession, and finally a monk begging for alms. These sights moved the prince so much that he went out into the world to seek a state of high spiritual knowledge concerning the sorrows of human beings.
Detailed explanation-5: -What does Gautama Buddha say about the life and death of human beings? Ans. Gautama Buddha says that the life of human beings in this world is troubled, brief and combined with pain. It is because there is not any means by which those that have been born can avoid dying.