09. Who can appreciate the activities of the perfect devotees ?
a) One who has realized Brahman
b) One who has realized Paramatma
c) One who is learned
d) One who is pure devotee
Sri Isopanishad
10. According to Sri Isopanisad what is beyond the purview of the Brahmajyoti ?
a) Understanding a pure devotee
b) Favor of the Lord
c) Understanding cosmic manifestation
d) Origin of universe
01. Lord & the living entities are one & the same in _____________ .
a) Impersonal
b) Intellectual
c) Destructible
d) Personal
02. In the cycle of evolution, the living entity ________________ bodies on after the another.
a) Forms
b) Changes
c) Studies
d) Perfects
03. Highest development of one’s spiritual sense described in this text is to give up this material body & allowing the air of life to merge into the ________________ .
a) Ashes
b) Desired planet
c) Totality of air
d) Sacrifices
04. What are living being’s activities, which are performed within the body through movements of different kinds of air known as ?
a) Brahma-randhra
b) Prana-vayu
c) Smara
d) Vayuh-anilam
05. What is there in the various species of life, from the germs to Brahma ?
a) Desires for sense gratification
b) Oneness in spiritual identity
c) Neither a nor b
d) Both a & b
06. What is required by the knower, for the culture of knowledge to reach highest perfectional stage ?
a) Surrender to Lord
b) Become one with the Lord
c) Knowledge about the Lord
d) None of the above
07. When is this text 17 prayer made to the Lord ?
a) On intellectual platform
b) After having Brahman realization
c) At the time of death
d) All the above
08. Which among the following are for the maintenance of this body ?
a) Social status, mental development
b) Cleanliness, austerity, nourishment
c) Austerity, struggle for existence
d) All of the above
09. Maintenance of this body & devotional service are ____________ .
a) Key to success
b) Occasional exhibition
c) Inversely proportional
d) None of the above
10. Impersonalists pursue a ______________ labor.
a) Essential
b) Fruitless
c) Constant
d) Concerned
11. How many essential transcendental activities can be performed by the devotees to remain constantly in touch with the Lord ?
a) Five
b) Nine
c) Eleven
d) Eighteen
12. What one has to learn to employ his sense in the service of the Lord during one’s lifetime, so that he can utilize the results of such practice at the time of death ?
a) Soul & Supersoul
b) Intellectual literatures
c) Sacrifices
d) Vedic-hymns
01. What a devotee has to do, for the causeless mercy of the Lord, so that he can progress on the path of complete self-realization ?
a) Surrender
b) Pray
c) Both a & b
d) Neither a nor b
02. Which among the following is enacted by the living entity for sense gratification & become hindrances on the path of self-realization ?
a) Vikarma
b) Karma-kanda
c) Karma
d) None of the above
03. What does the brahminical culture include ?
a) Truthfulness, sense control, simplicity, full faith in God
b) Truthfulness, forbearance, simplicity, full faith in God
c) Truthfulness, sense control, simplicity, full knowledge, full faith in God
d) Truthfulness, sense control, forbearance, simplicity, full knowledge, full faith in God
04. Fallen souls are given chance by taking birth in the families of good brahmanas or rich merchants which enables them to ___________________ .
a) Earn good amount of money
b) The path of self-realization
c) Afford for higher status in the society
d) Become intellectual
05. As recommended in this text, surrender unto the Lord ___________ by adopting devotional attitude, surpasses all stages.
a) After many births
b) At the very beginning
c) In the heart
d) None of these
06. How does the Lord responds for the desires of his devotees ?
a) Acts lately
b) Sanctions the desire
c) Directs the devotee
d) All of these