1) Who was Gautama Buddha? when and where was he born?
2) What did KisaGotami say to Buddha? what reply did he give to her?
3) What did her experience speech KisaGotami?
4) What did Griffin do at the London store?
5 Why was Mrs. Hall convinced that Griffin was an ‘eccentric scientist’?
6 What do you think about Griffin as a scientist?
Answers
Answer:
1) Siddhartha Gautama, the Lord Buddha, was born in 623 B.C. in the famous gardens of Lumbini, which soon became a place of pilgrimage. Among the pilgrims was the Indian emperor Ashoka, who erected one of his commemorative pillars there.
2) Kisa Gotami went to the Buddha and asked him to give her the medicine to make her son alive. The Buddha asked her to bring him a handful of mustard seed
3)Answer: Kisa Gotami was searching everywhere for someone who could revive and bring her dead child back to life. Her grieve over the loss of her beloved child is so great that people begin to think she has lost her mind. ... Grief, suffering and death comes to every family and each person must overcome them
Explanation:
(1) Siddhartha Gautama, the Lord Buddha, was born in 623 B.C. in the famous gardens of Lumbini, which soon became a place of pilgrimage. Among the pilgrims was the Indian emperor Ashoka, who erected one of his commemorative pillars there.
(2) What reply did he give to her? Answer: Kisa Gotami went to the Buddha and asked him to give her the medicine to make her son alive. The Buddha asked her to bring him a handful of mustard seed.
(3)Answer: Kisa Gotami was searching everywhere for someone who could revive and bring her dead child back to life. ... Grief, suffering and death comes to every family and each person must overcome them. Real wisdom is to accept the inevitable and continue the journey of life.
(4)Answer. Answer: Griffin entered the big London store to eat some food and he wore some clothes from the store while it was closed and in the morning when workers came to the store,he again took off his clothes and become invisible and ran away from the store.
(5)Answer: Mrs. Hall found the scientist eccentric because of his strange appearance and also when she tried to be friendly with him, he rebuffed her by saying that he had come there for solitude and did not wish to be disturbed in his work.
(6)Answer: Griffin is a brilliant scientist, as he discovers how to make himself invisible. But he seems to enjoy the feeling of power which he gets out of his invisibility. ... A true scientist should make discoveries for the larger benefit of society, not just for his own benefit.