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Which of the following statements of Swami Vivekananda are true? 1/1

a. The goal of human existence is to bring Branham within the scope of the
mind in order to know Him.
b. Do not go to the senses is the watchword of Vairagya.
c. Through renunciation, as you go back and back, all the forms are
manifested before you, and they are left aside one after the other until you
remain what you really are. This is Moksha or liberation.

a, b and c are true

b and c are true

a and b are true

The universe is 1/1

self-creating, self-perpetuating

deathless, birthless and unchanging

the microcosm

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1/1
The number of sages that India has produced over the millennia is

just one

ten

one hundred and eight

innumberable

1/1
The best known declaration of the Vedas is

tat tvam asi (That you are)

auṁ śāntiḥ śāntiḥ śāntiḥ

this world is pervaded by Īśvara

In the beginning there was asat (non-being)

0/1
Vedanta teaches

the ‘spiritual oneness’ of the whole universe

that people are permanently divided into different castes

that people have different levels of intelligence

Brahman is the ultimate reality, beyond space and time, name and form with
beginning and end
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Correct answer

Brahman is the ultimate reality, beyond space and time, name and form with
beginning and end

“Vednta, and Vedanta alone, can become the universal religion of man, and 1/1
no other is fitted for the role.” Which of the following support this
statement?
a. Almost all other great religions in the world are inevitably connected with
the life or lives of one or more of their founders. Upon the historicity of the
founder’s life is built all the fabric of such religions. Once that rock of
historicity is shaken and shatters, the whole building tumbles down.
b. Only the Hindu religion rests upon principles.
c. The Hindu religion gives you more incarnations, more prophets and
seers, and still waits for infinitely more. If any one or more persons in
India’s religious history, any one or more of there Incarnations, and any one
or more of our prophets are proved not to have been historical, it does not
injure our religion at all.

a, b and c

Only c

a and b

According to swami Vivekananda, our life’s work is 1/1

to worship all of God’s incarnations

to fight to establish the superiority of our religion

to protect the sages who discovered them

to keep our Vedantic principles in tact

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Which of the following statements of Swami Vivekananda are true? 1/1

a. The Vedanta has reference only to the Advaita system.
b. The Upanishads, the Sutras of Vyasa and the Gita constitute the three
Prasthanas.
c. The systems of Vedanta are sometimes contradictory to one another,
but for the most part, one is based on the other.

only a is correct

a, b and c are correct

only b is correct

The Bhagavdgītā teaches 1/1

karma kāṇḍa (performance of rituals)

nondualistic philosophy

that all approaches are valid when the heart is pure

dualistic philosophy

Ātman is 1/1

vision

the mind

unchangeable

th b d
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the body

Advaita can 1/1

can be practiced by women and lower classes

work on the material plane

all of the above

need no longer be practiced in the mountains

Which of the following statements of Swami Vivekananda are true? 1/1

a. Human progress has been made, from days of yore, almost in parallel
lines along both the external and the internal worlds.
b. The search began in the external, and man at first wanted to get answers
for all the deep problems from outside nature.
c. The search in external nature for the truths of the universe satisfied the
Indian mind.

Only a is correct

a and b are correct

a, b and c are correct

The most significant aspect of Swami Vivekananda’s Lahore lecture was: 1/1

it is important to focus on the things of the world for material advancement

that the banner of advaita should be raised to uplift the masses

religion can be shocked by science

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science should be placed above religion

1/1
The śrutis were recorded by

a university Sanskrit department

we know all about those who compiled the śrutis

their dates are clearly given in the scriptures

almost nothing is known about who these seers were to whom they were
revealed

Vedanta is great 1/1

because it has given rise to secret societies

because it has all kinds of mysteries

because it deals with experienced spiritual truths

because its teachers have tricked people into thinking so

The secret of Advaita is: 1/1

a. Believe in yourselves first, and then believe in anything else.
b. In the history of the world, only those nations that have believed in
themselves have become great and strong.
c. In the history of each nation, only those individuals who have believed in
themselves have become great and strong.

a, b and c
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1/1
Our masses should be taught that

behind the high and low there is the one Infinite Soul

there are people who are stronger than them

they can never amount to anything

their country is the greatest

1/1
Vedanta is

totally compatible with modern materialism

incompatible with modern science and its discoveries

antithetical to family life and possessions

Which of the following statements of Swami Vivekananda are true? 1/1

a. The solution of problems can be attained either on racial, or national, or
narrow grounds.
b. Every idea has to become broad till it covers the whole of this world,
every aspiration must go on increasing till it has engulfed the whole of
humanity and the whole of life, within its scope.
c. The first manifest effect of life is expansion. You must expand if you
want to live.

b and c are true

Only a is true
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a and c are true

a, b and c are true

1/1
The Vedas were composed by________

a single man

an editorial board

a single woman

a multiplicity of sages to whom they were revealed

The truth(s) of the spiritual world 1/1

can be experienced through the mind or speech

are to be found ‘in the superconscious state of the human soul.’

can be grasped by the senses

can be grasped by a subtle mind

1/1
The world is waiting to see in practice the grand idea of__________

universal tolerance

everyone having the same bank balance

all men to be equally physically strong

social and economic inclusion

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1/1
The Vedas contain

incantations to get a great character

mantras to change one’s shape

instructions to vanquish enemies

all that is necessary for the perfection of man, to attain perfect unity with the
universe

Hindu religion is the true religion because: 1/1

a. It goes beyond the senses, beyond space and time, away beyond, till
nothing of this world is left and the universe itself becomes like a drop in
the transcendent ocean of the glory of the soul.
b. It teaches that God alone is true, that this world if false and fleeting, that
all your gold is but as dust, that all your power is finite, and that life itself is
oftentimes an evil.
c. It teaches that through renunciation is the way to the goal and not
through enjoyment.

Only c

a, b and c

a and b

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Which of the following statements of Swami Vivekananda are true? 1/1

a. There is not in the world another country whose institutions are really
better in their aims and objects than the institutions of India.
b. Good results can be produced only through love and sympathy, and not
through cursing anf vilifying and abusing.
c. We must try to keep our historically acquired character as a people.
Therefore, rather than religious reformation, we must focus on growth,
expansion and development on national lines.

b and c are true

a and b are true

a, b and c are true

Freedom or salvation is 1/1

bathing in a hundred rivers

visiting 108 temples

fighting for the country

becoming a rishi

1/1
Every nation has an ideal as its backbone; for our country it is_______

politics

social culture
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social culture

intellectual tradition

religion

1/1
Our scriptures consist of

śrutis (Vedas) and smritis (the epics, laws)

the Bhagavadgītā

Patanjali’s Yogasūtra

Bādarāyana’s Brahmasūtra

Our race was degraded 1/1

due to the sharpening of our brains

due to a collection of great thoughts

due to an accumulation of superstition for centuries

due to the enrichment of religion through superstition

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Which of the following statements of Swami Vivekananda are true? 1/1

a. When we know the secret of Om, then and then alone whatever you want
shall come to you.
b. The defect which lay in Advaita is that you cannot become great
materially through the practice of Vedanta since the Vedanta doesn’t deal
with the material.
c. The defect which lay in Advaita practice was its being worked out so
long on the spiritual plane only and nowhere else, and now the time has
come to work it out practically.

Only a is true

a, b and c are true

a and b are true

b and c are true

a and c are true

1/1
A special feature of Vedanta is

that it represents universal religion, no matter what it is named

that a person is quite comfortable worshipping the gods and sages of any religion

the best eternal principles are already embedded in it

all of the above

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1/1
Religion in other countries (than India) is one of the necessities of life, but
their real goal in life is_________

to get a job

social improvement

strengthening their muscles

preparing for the other world

1/1
Which of the following statements of Swami Vivekananda are true?
a. There came the most horrible degradation in India when, for centuries,
the entire race has been discussing such momentous problems as whether
we should drink a glass of water with the right hand or the left; and the
greatest minds of India have been discussing about the kitchen, whether I
may touch you or you touch me, and what is the penance for this touching.
b. Each nation must give in order to live.
c. The gift of India to the outside world is the gift of religion and philosophy,
and wisdom and spirituality.

b and c are true

a, b and c are true

Only c is true

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1/1
The sensible way to deal with caste is to

change the system overnight according to Western ideals

remember that the social reformers have achieved remarkable results

believe that the system is inherently evil

live in any caste but not hate members of other castes

The mind is 1/1

part of the subtle body (sūkṣma śarīra)

the atman

Matter

the collection of brain cells

1/1
All good comes from the Vedantic ideal of

the basic differences in people

the underlying sameness and oneness of things

the occasional equality of people

All of the above

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A very small amount of religious work performed brings________ 1/1

a large amount of result

only an insignificant result

a mixed result

zero result

Ramanuja 1/1

influenced the bhakti movement

was exclusive and aristocratic

was very orthodox in his spiritual outlook

did not care for the common man

There is no hope for our race until 1/1

a. The words of the Lord Krishna are brought to their practical use
b. There is sympathy, the love, the heart that thinks for all—until Buddha’s
heart comes once more into India.
c. Vedanta is taken back to the spiritual plane, and removed from the
contamination of the world.

a, b and c are true

a and b are true

b d t
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b and c are true

1/1
Swami Vivekananda taught advaita (nondualism) because

our country needed nerves of steel and muscles of iron

our country needed to be soft and experience devotional ecstasy

our country needed to understand that people are different from one another

our country needed some of the gods which foreigners introduced

1/1
Swami Vivekananda’s visit to Kumbhakonam highlighted___________

the mission of the Vedanta

the lifestyle of the Western women

the teachings of Christianity

the impermanence of worldly existence

The West should be conquered through 1/1

the use of vast armies

hatred

materialism

spirituality

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Vedanta teaches that 1/1

He is immanent in the human soul

He is inside and outside nature, in the human soul, everywhere

God is within the nature

God is outside nature

1/1
A personal god may be necessary for people because

such a god is better than an imaginary one

they can see him and talk to him

a god whom you can see will grant your wishes readily

human beings need something concrete to believe in and focus on

The term ‘Vedanta’ for Swami Vivekananda 1/1

refers only to the śrutis

refers to Brahmasūtra and Bhagavadgītā

refers only to advaita

refers to all op taken together

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1/1
Swami Vivekananda’s message to the East and the West is that

the Vedantic ideal is good for the East and the West

the Vedantic ideal is good only for the West

the Vedantic ideal is good only for the East

the Vedantic ideal is no good for anyone in modern times

What is it that Indians have believed in from the most ancient generations? 1/1

In the West, they are trying to solve the problem how much a man can possess, and
we are trying here to solve the problem on how little a man can live.

The theory of the survival of the fittest is not the highest theory.

A nation can continue its existence despite never conquering even one other race
or nation.

All of the above

What according to Swami Vivekananda is the work before us? 1/1

a. Revival of the country, and conquest of the whole world by Indian
thought.
b. Sending out to the world the life-giving principles, along with the
superstitions that are essential to religion.
c. Establishing secret societies like the sages of yore did to preach religion.

Only a

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a and b

a, b and c

Only b

1/1
The faith of the Hindus is the true religion because

it teaches renunciation of the fleeting attractions of the world

it tells you to think of God when you have some free time

it says that the only the fittest survive

they Hindus conquered many nations in the old world

Swami Vivekananda’s advice to the people of Lahore: 1/1

Arise, awake, and stop not till the goal is reached.

Be the creator of your own destiny

Education is the manifestation of the perfection already in man

To be good and to do good, that is all of religion.

1/1
Hinduism challenges the world to________

to see on how much one can possess

to see on how little one can live

to see that those who train themselves to live on the least and control themselves
well will in the end gain the battle

to see that those who run after enjoyment and luxury will become annihilated

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Religion is 1/1

the knowledge gleaned through the sense

that which makes us realise the Unchangeable One.

the knowledge gained thorough book learning

going to the temple frequently

Which of the following statements of Swami Vivekananda are true? 1/1

a. The great ideal before us is the conquest of the whole world by India
with our spirituality.
b. Love must conquer hatred, hatred cannot conquer itself. Materialism
and all its miseries can never be conquered by materialism.
c. The West is finding out that what they want is spirituality to preserve
them as nations.

Only b is true

a, b and c are true

Only c is true

Only a is true

The characteristic of Indian thought and literature is 1/1

that they inspire through silence and fascinate you

they stir the mind of the reader momentarily and are forgotten
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that we always know who the thinkers and authors are

they are full of action and excite you

1/1
Good results in any endeavor can be obtained

by socially uplifting people

by trying to enforce over a long period of time

by bribing people

through love and sympathy

Which of the following statements of Swami Vivekananda are true? 1/1

a. In the Vedanta, we find at once that religion has got rid of all external
formalities.
b. In the Vedanta, spiritual things are told in the language of the matter as
opposed to the language of the spirit.
c. The Upanishads form a part of the Shruti, which contains truths that are
based on the nature of man himself, and which must endure as long as
man himself endures.

a, b and c are correct

a and c are correct

a and b are correct

Hinduism has the unique distinction 1/1

of being intolerant of other people’s religions

of not conquering other nations

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of fighting and defeating many nations

of spreading ill will and enmity among nations

Morality is the essence of advaita 1/1

because God said so

because morality is unselfish

the same God exists in everything and everyone, so when you hurt somebody
you hurt yourself.

an authoritative text says so

Which of the following statements of Swami Vivekananda are true? 1/1

a. There is no man or woman who can claim to have created the vedas.
b. The vedas are the embodiment of eternal principles.
c. The sages were the preachers of the principles, and they themselves
tried to become the illustrations of the principles they preached.
d. Just as our God is an Impersonal and yet a personal God, so is our
religion a most intensely personal one—it is based on principles.
e. If it ever becomes possible to bring the largest portion of humanity to
one way of thinking in regard to religion, it must be always through
principles.

a and b are true

b, c and d are true

All statements are true

a, b and e are true

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1/1
Religion is

in the books

in theoretical arguments

in logical reasoning

being and becoming

Which of the following statements of Swami Vivekananda are true? 1/1

a. What is called mind is only a bit of Mahat caught in the trap of the brain.
b. The sum total of all minds caught in the meshes of the brain is called
Samashti, the aggregate.
c. We find in each one of us a microcosm, and the world taken altogether is
the macrocosm.

a, b and c are true

a and c are true

b and c are true

Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa was great because 1/1

he was highly educated

he wrote many books

he was born in a wealthy family

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he saw God

The writers are Indian scriptures 1/1

attached their names to all their works for ready reference

They proudly claimed that all the ideas expressed were their own

are very well-known to everybody

did not even put their names to their writings

To illustrate that Maya is what makes the difference between you and me, 1/1
between all animals and man, between Gods and men, Swamiji gives the
example of

The oyster making a pearl

The immigrants in New York

The wave and the ocean

1/1
Our religion and its teachings are based on

a single prophet

Lord Krishna

eternal principles

the Mahabharata

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1/1
You can solve the caste problem by

degrading the upper classes

not paying attention to it

by attaining spirituality

none of the above

1/1
You are of a high caste if you

trace your ancestry to a rishi (sage, seer)

are a person of a spiritual culture and renunciation

possess true wisdom

all of the above

1/1
The Hindu God is_____________

personal

impersonal

personal and impersonal

One that sits high in His heaven looking down on people with amusement

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1/1
The statement, “He who exists is one; the sages call Him variously,”
means_____________

there are multiple tribal gods

each god has his own name and form

the sages were mistaken in thinking that there was just one God

there is but one God, called by different names

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A Ṛṣi (Rishi) is

one who ‘sees’ the meaning of a mantra (mantra draṣṭa)

one who is master of prosody

one who writes good poetry

one who is a mind-reader

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Dualism and nondualism can be reconciled when we realize________

that they both teach that God is within and that the soul is eternally pure

they can choose the better of two gods

that all temples are equally good

All of the above

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The proof of the (subject matter) of the Vedas is that

one can test it in the laboratory

it is so written in the scriptures

it is directly within the perception of the tranquil mind

you can trust your neighbor who says so

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This ‘little sense-world of three days duration is’___________

the end and aim of all

defines our view of religion

a drop in the transcendent ocean of the glory of the soul

capable of making us lead luxurious lives

Swami Vivekananda felt 1/1

that we can learn many things from other nations

that learning from the lowly will result in slavery

narrowness of thought helps preserve the purity of a nation

that Indians must not go out of India to learn valuable lessons

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The thinkers of the West have found out that____________

that the pursuit of wealth and power is highly satisfactory

they are happy with the brutality of the commercial civilization

political and social changes are the only panacea for the evils of the West

spiritual and ethical culture alone can change wrong racial tendences

1/1
In the Bhagavadgīta, Lord Krishna said that

the Lord is only in His temple

the Lord is strong in strong people and weak in weak people

who sees the Supreme Lord dwelling alike in all beings…sees indeed.

the Lord is present within us sometimes and is gone at other times

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Which of the following statements of Swami Vivekananda are true? 1/1

a. For the Hindu race, its vitality, its life-principle, its very soul is in scientific
advancement.
b. To follow the track of religion is the line of life, growth and well-being in
India.
c. In other countries religion is only one of the many necessities in life.
d. Hindu religion’s greatness lies in the fact that that it does not make this
little sense-world of three days’ duration the end and aim of all, its great
goal.

a, b, c and d are true

b and d are true

only b is true

a, b and d are true

b, c and d are true

Which of the following statements of Swami Vivekananda are true? 1/1

a. Modern Physiology has identified the mind with the brain.
b. In India, it has always been known that the mind is subtle matter, only
finer than the gross body.
c. The body is gross, and behind the body is what we call the Sukshma
Sharira, the fine body, or mind.
d. The mind is also material, only finer.

a, b , c and d are true

a, b and c are true

a, c and d are true

b dd
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b, c and d are true

Which of the following statements of Swami Vivekananda are true? 1/1

a. Advaita alone preaches that the essence of all morality is to do good to
others.
b. Other religions preach morality, but cannot give you its reason. In Advaita
alone is morality explained.
c. The problem with the Vedanta is the apparent contradiction in its
exhortation that “You must be sympathetic and not hurt others because
through all hands you work, through all feet you move, you are the king
enjoying in the palace, you are the beggar leading that miserable existence
in the street, you are in the ignorant as well as the learned, you are in the
man who id weak, and you are in the strong…”

a, b and c are true

a and b are true

Only a is true

Only b is true

a and c are true

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Our religion preaches

only a personal god

only an impersonal god

a personal and an impersonal god

neither

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The goal of the traditional marriage is 1/1

to tour foreign countries together

to have a double income

to share cooking and cleaning

to have ideal children

It was Swami Vivekananda’s conviction 1/1

the work that you do must be for your own benefit

that it was time for him to go to England and America to spread the message of
Vedanta

that we must revive our own country spiritually

that the Hindus should spiritually conquer the whole world

The concept of God is rational and is proved by our very existence 1/1

because there is something deep within us that witnesses everything and is

changeless

because we are always conscious

because we have a body

because we have an individuality

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Which of the following statements of Swami Vivekananda are true? 1/1

a. Morality is no longer important to the practitioner of Advaita, since we
are all one and all God.
b. Know through Advaita that whomsoever you hurt, you hurt yourself, they
are all you.
c. I do not even care whether I have to starve, because there will be millions
of mouths eating at the same time, and they are all mine. Therefore, I
should not care what becomes of me and mine, for the whole universe is
mine

a and c are true

b and c are true

a and b are true

a, b and c are true

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Most religions do not satisfy people because

they are inevitably connected to the lives of their founders

their founders were all authentic historical figures

they are built upon eternal principles

their teachers practiced what they preached

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Hinduism is a true religion because 1/1

it shed a great deal of blood to propagate itself

it could not tolerate any other religion

it never fought and defeated anybody to establish itself

its epics passed down from time immemorial

1/1
Ethical and moral codes are binding when derived from__________

some eternal principle of truth

a great thinker

a divine personage

a literary masterpiece

According to Swami Vivekananda 1/1

we have been giving to the outside world throughout history

wisdom and spirituality march upon bleeding human bodies

Hindus have always been confined to the four walls of their country

history says that we must not share knowledge with others

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The love of the gopis for Krishna 1/1

is selfish

is based on companionship

is based on attachment to the body

does not care for anything in this or the other world

The essence of the Upanishads is 1/1

presenting a medley of conflicting ideas

praising religious rituals

dualistic in nature

finding unity in diversity

Which of the following statements of Swami Vivekananda are true? 1/1

a. It is only the witness that can enjoy.
b. A liberated person is one who has become the witness of the universe.
c. It is the witness alone that can work without any desire, without any idea
of going to heaven, without any idea of blame, without any idea of praise.
d. Through this same doctrine that you are witness, the Hindus, however,
have become quiescent and good for nothing.

a, b, c and d are true

a and b are true

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a and b are true

Only d is true

a, b and c are true

The Vedas are 1/1

depend on a personal god

based on the historicity of their seers

treat of incarnations and prophets

perfectly impersonal

The Self is 1/1

changeable

different from person to person

that which conflicts with other selves

the Universal Soul

The Ramayana 1/1

depicts ideals of kingship, morality, truth, sacrifice

tells us how to write great poetry

is a manual of storytelling

praises the greatness of Ravana

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Vedanta 1/1

was preceded by Christian thinking

penetrated into China and Persia before Buddhism

was confined to India before Buddhism

followed Greek thought

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The principal message of the Vedanta is that

all women must be educated

everyone should marry and have children

the Lord dwells within each and every one of us

we should all study the Upanishads

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Which of the following statements of Swami Vivekananda are true? 1/1

a. Indians live the grand truth of the vedic dictum “He who exists is one; the
sages call Him variously,” in every vein, and our country has become the
glorious land of religious toleration.
b. None can regenerate India without the practical application and effective
operation of the ideal of the oneness of things.
c. The infinite oneness of the Soul is the eternal sanction of all morality,
that you and I are mot only brothers, but that you and I are really one. This
is the dictate of Indian philosophy.
d. This oneness is the rationale of all ethics and all philosophy.
e. This wonderful idea of the sameness and omnipresence of the Supreme
soul has to be preached for the amelioration and elevation of the human
race here as elsewhere.

a, c and d are true

All the statements are true

a, b, d and e are true

The Universal Soul (Paramātman) 1/1

makes sure that the individual souls work in harmony

makes sure they obey the laws of matter

makes sure that the individual souls don’t fight with one another

makes sure that the individual souls (jīvātmas) don’t talk to one another

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Only he is qualified to preach who 1/1

who fights constantly defending his god

who talks the most

who has seen God

who is a religious scholar

What is the world-weariness that has come upon the Western world? 1/1
a. Finding out that this race after gold and power is all vanity of vanities.
b. Weariness of this competition, this struggle, this brutality of their
commercial civilistion.
c. Clinging on to political and social changes as the only panacea for the
evils in Europe.
d. Finding out that no amount of political or social manipulation of human
conditions can cure the evils of life. Finding out that no amount of force, or
government, or legislative cruelty will change the conditions of a race, but it
is spiritual culture and ethical culture alone that can change wrong racial
tendencies for the better.

a and b

a, b and d

a, b, c and d

a, b and c

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