After losing her only child, Kisa Gotami became desperate as if she lost her mind. An old man told her to see the Buddha. The Buddha told her that he could bring the child back to life if she could find white mustard seeds from a family where no one had died. She could not find a house that had not suffered the death of a family member. Finally she realized there is no house free from mortality. She was awakened and entered the first stage of enlightenment. Eventually, she became an Arahat. She says "Though one should live a hundred years, without seeing the Deathless State, yet better indeed, is a single day's life, of one who sees the Deathless State."
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