Why do you think Kisa Gotami understood this only the second time? In what way did the Buddha change her understanding?

Why do you think Kisa Gotami understood this only the second time? In what way did the Buddha change her understanding?

Answer: Kisa Gotami understood that death is common to all. She understood this only the second time because it was then that she found that there was not a single house where some beloved had not died. Firstly, she was only thinking about her grief. That is why she was asking for a medicine that would cure her son. When she met the Buddha, he asked her to get a handful of mustard seeds from a house where no one had died.

He did this intentionally to make her realize that there was not a single house where no body had died. Death is inevitable. Second time, when she went to all the houses she felt depressed that she could not gather the mustard seeds. Ultimately, she realized that the fate of men is such that they live and die. It is the natural course of life. Death is common to all. This is what the Buddha had intended her to understand.