Unit 3 (Part 1)
Getting started (page 22)
Reading I
Answer the
following questions.
a. How do people feel when their relatives pass away?
Answer: People feel very sad and grief when their
relatives pass away.
b. Is death sure to happen?
Answer: Yes,
death is sure to happen.
Kisa Gotami and the Mustard Seed
A. Find
the words from the above text for these meanings.
a. gave sympathy to somebody
b. a ceremony for burying/burning a
dead person
c. an area of land where dead people
are buried
d. a way of improving a difficult
situation
e. sitting in silence in order to
make the mind calm
f. sure/certain to happen
Answer:
a. consoled
b. funeral
c. graveyard
d. remedy
e. meditating
f. inevitable
B. Answer
the following questions.
a. Did Kisa love her son? How did you
know?
b. What did she not accept?
c. What help did she ask for with the
neighbours?
d. Why did she not prepare for her
son's funeral?
e. What did the old man advise Kisa
to do?
f. What was Gautam Buddha doing when
Kisa saw him?
g. What request did she make with
Gautam Buddha?
h. What did Gautam Buddha tell Kisa
to do?
i. Did Kisa find a house where no one
has ever died?
j. What did Kisa finally understand?
Answer:
a. Yes, Kisa
loved her son because she worked and lived only for him.
b. She did
not accept that her dear son had left forever.
c. She asked
for her son’s life back.
d. She didn’t
prepare for her son’s funeral because she believed that her son would come
back.
e. The old
man advised Kisa to go to Gautam Buddha.
f. Gautam
Buddha was meditating under a Peepal tree when Kisa saw him.
g. She requested
Gautam Buddha to restore her son back to life.
h. Gautam
Buddha told Kisa to lend him a handful of mustard seed from a house where no
family members had died.
i. No she didn’t
find a house where no one has ever died.
j. Kisa finally
learnt that death is inevitable.
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