Once there was a poor woman named Krishagoutami. She lost her only son and so she
was highly shocked. She came to Lord Buddha and asked him whether he could give her
medicine to bring back her dead child to life. The holy man told her that there was only one
medicine to bring her son to life. He bade her bring him a handful of mustard seeds from
a house where death had never entered.
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The sorrowing mother went from door to door seeking the mustard seeds, but at every
house she got sad replies. One said, "I have lost my husband" Another said, "Our child had
died last year". Then out of disappointment she came back to the great religious teacher and
narrated to Him the result of her quest. Then Buddha told her tenderly. "Don't think much
of our own sorrow This is the law of the Nature. Nobody is immortal in this world. Thus the
woman learnt a lesson, "Sorrow and death are common to all."
Moral : "Death is inevitable."
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