01. What is material compassion compared to in BG 2.1?
a) Fire covered by smoke
b) Saving the dress of a drowning man
c) Killing the demon of misunderstanding
d) All of these
Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 02 – Contents of the Gita Summarized
02. The three phases of Absolute truth are compared to ____________.
a) Sun
b) Devotion
c) Devotees
d) Progressive values of life
03. Who is in an Aryan?
a) One who knows the value of life
b) One who has spiritual realization
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
04. Why according to Krishna, would Arjuna become infamous by not fighting?
a) Because Arjuna being a kshatriya, his duty is to fight
b) Because deviation from one’s duty doesn’t lead to spiritual advancement
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
05. What Arjuna considers sinful?
a) Killing his superiors
b) Killing his own devotional service
c) Killing his mother
d) All of these
06. Why Arjuna realizes he is confused and lost his composure?
a) Because he was acting like a brahmana
b) Because of his miserly weakness
c) Because of his love
d) Because of his ill health
07. Finally, Arjuna accepts Krishna as his _______________.
a) Friend
b) Spiritual master
c) Disciple
d) None of the above
08. Krishna and the living entities ______________are eternal.
a) Individuality
b) Scriptures
c) Spirit
d) Conditioning
09. How is Krishna’s individuality not material?
a) Because Krishna affirms His individuality in the past, present and future
b) Because if Krishna is deluded then BG has no value as authoritative scripture
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
10. Why a self realized soul is not bewildered by changing body from boyhood to old age and then to death?
a) Because he knows everything
b) Because he believes in next life
c) Because in the end everything becomes void
d) Because the spirit soul doesn’t undergo any change
11. Why should one not be disturbed and tolerate happiness and distress?
a) Because they arise from sense perception
b) Because performing the prescribed rules and regulations of religious principles in any condition raises one to the platform of knowledge
c) Because by knowledge and devotion only one can liberate oneself from the clutches of maya
d) All of the above
12. Which of the following is accepted as the Supreme?
a) Energy
b) Energetic
c) Energizer
d) None of the above
13. What is spread all over the body?
a) Consciousness
b) Pain
c) Pleasure
d) Knowledge
14. What is the size of the soul?
a) One thousandth part of the upper portion of the hair point in size
b) One hundred-thousandth part of the upper portion of the hair point in size
c) One ten-thousandth part of the upper portion of the hair point in size
d) One thousand-thousandth part of the upper portion of the hair point in size
15. The soul is floating in __________ kinds of air, situated within the heart.
a) Five
b) Seven
c) Nine
d) Eleven
16. If the soul is indestructible, then why animal slaughter is abominable?
a) Because it involves whimsical killing
b) Because it is not approved by authority
c) Because it involves violence to the innocent animal
d) All of the above
17. Does the soul produce any by-product?
a) Yes
b) No
18. What are the characteristics of the soul?
a) Unborn, indestructible & unchangeable
b) Cannot be burned, dried, wet or withered by wind
c) Everlasting, immovable, all-pervading, Invisible, inconceivable and immutable
d) All of the above
19. The analogy given here of two birds in the same tree, of which, one is eating the fruit of the tree and another is watching the activities of the other bird. Why is that so, the bird who is eating the fruits of the tree is in anxiety, morose and struggling very hard on the tree?
a) Because it has forgot its relationship with the witnessing bird
b) Because it not accepting the witnessing bird as the supreme spiritual master
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
20. If Arjuna did not believe in the existence of soul, and accepts that life develops from chemicals, then why there is no need to lament?
a) Because Arjuna was a kshatriya
b) Because no one laments on the loss of some chemicals
c) Because physical body and chemical elements are non different
d) None of these