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The story also shows how emotions can sometimes deny us from
facing the truth that we wanted to avoid. These emotions caused by
craving prevent us from being enlightened and amplify the effect of
the 3 poisons as when these attachments are broken it leads us to
be ignorant of the truth, greedy and hateful. Kisi Gotami is mentally
unbalanced by the grief and therefore is blind to the teachings of
the Dhamma. Only when we break these bonds to things, can we
accept the teachings of the Buddha and become enlightened.
A Mustard seed symbolises how big things occur from little things as
a mustard seed is very small but it grows to form a massive tree.
The Buddha uses this to show how small attachments lead to large
amounts of suffering and how death is that suffering. A mustard
seed can also represent Nibbana and as it was common to most
Indian households it shows how Nibbana is possible in all people and
all you have to do is accept the Dhamma and you can become
enlightened instead of doubting it.