NCERT · Class 10 · English · First Flight: The Sermon at BenaresWhat did Kisa Gotami do after her only son died, and how did her neighbors react to her grief?

After the tragic death of her only son, Kisa Gotami was overwhelmed with extreme grief and sorrow. In her deep distress, she was unable to accept the reality of his death and carried the dead body of her child from door to door, desperately asking her neighbors for medicine to cure him and bring him back to life. The people in her neighborhood felt pity for her condition, but they also realized that she had lost her mind due to the immense grief of her loss. They remarked that her son was already dead and that no medicine in the world could cure death. Eventually, a benevolent man guided her to seek help from Gautama Buddha.