First Flight ch10 The Sermon at Benares

CBSE Class 10 English Language and Literature
Revision Notes
Chapter 10
The sermon at benares

This lesson tells us about the life of Gautama Buddha, who was born in a royal family as Siddhartha.
Once he saw a funeral processing, and monk begging for the alms.
These sights moved them a lot and he decided to become a monk and started moving in search of enlightenment.
He started meditation under a peepal tree and after seven days he got enlightenment and he became known as the Buddha (the Awakened or the Enlightened).
He preached his first sermon at Benares.
Once a woman came to him requesting to bring her dead son to life.
Gautama Buddha asked the lady to bring handful of mustard seeds from the house were there had been no death.
The lady moved from one house to another but she could not find a single house where no one has lost a child, husband, parents or friend.
Then she came to know that death common to all and is the ultimate truth.