04. When Abhay’s Bombay business also diminished, he went to ___________ with his family and operated a small chemical laboratory
a) Calcutta
b) Allahabad
c) Delhi
d) Pune
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05. In spite of several translations already existing, Abhay wanted to write Geetopanishad because
a) He wanted to establish that Krishna is the Absolute Personality of Godhead
b) It was the perfect vehicle for confronting those who misinterpreted God and religion
c) The other translations were written by persons with “ an inner hatred to the Personality of Godhead”
d) All the above
06. The title ‘Bhakthivedanta’ was conferred upon Abhay by ___________.
a) His Godbrothers – Bhakthisaranga Gosvami and Sridhar Maharaja
b) His Family
c) His Spiritual Master
d) All the above
07. ‘Quit India’ movement was introduced by Gandhi in the year
a) 1942
b) 1943
c) 1944
d) 1945
08. In the midst of calamities of war, famine, poverty, mass death, Abhay felt
a) That may be Krishna never existed
b) That India should get independent on priority
c) Immediately to join back Gandhian movement
d) More than ever the need to propagate Krishna Consciousness
09. The consequences after the disappearance of BSST were
a) Gaudiya Math had been too busy fighting in court to consider preaching
b) The daily Nadiya prakasa was no more published
c) The 4 powerful printing presses printing transcendental literatures were sold
d) All the above
10. Abhay first printed his ‘Back to Godhead’ magazine in the year
a) 1942
b) 1943
c) 1944
d) 1945
11. Abhay could not print the second issue of the ‘Back to Godhead’ magazine immediately because
a) No one appreciated the magazine
b) Abhay did not want to publish immediately
c) Paper supply was restricted by the government on account of the war
d) There was no time
12. Abhay’s interest in family life deteriorated because
a) Family and Preaching were conflicting
b) His wife Radharani seemed to work against his enthusiasm, both for publishing and for earning
c) His sons were disinclined to help in business as well
d) All the above
01. Indian independence was not a real solution to the problems prevailing in India because
a) The independence movement instead of uniting Indians, partitioned India and Pakistan on bodily differences
b) Since the leaders were not God Conscious, instead of suffering at the hand of a foreign rule, people were suffering under their own countrymen
c) The independence had brought higher prices and civic mismanagement
d) All the above
02. Abhay stated Mr Pratap’s recommended book ‘Religion of Love’ to be more or less dogmatic because
a) It contained stories of various dogs
b) There was no authority for what is written in the book
c) The book was very authoritative
d) Abhay did not like Mr Pratap
03. Abhay declared in his summary on Bhagavad-Gita that the highest service that can be rendered to mankind is
a) To give huge money in charity
b) To give huge amounts of grains in charity
c) To provide literacy to all people to understand the philosophy of God
d) To preach the philosophy and religion of Bhagavad-Gita for all time, all places and all people
04. Abhay was fulfilling his role as a Vaishnava Preacher in spreading the philosophy of Bhagavad-Gita to higher authorities. The response from most of them were
a) Unfavorable
b) Favorable
c) Very favorable
d) None of the above
05. After the independence movement, Gandhi was ‘the saddest man one could picture’ because
a) The men he had led in the struggle for Indian Independence were leaders of nations and Gandhi was in odds with them in many ways
b) Gandhi feared he was becoming an anachronism
c) All his progress of Hindu-Muslim unity , non-violence were failures in India
d) All the above
06. Abhay sent a letter to Mahatma Gandhi requesting him to take up the philosophy of Bhagavad-Gita) This letter was
a) Much appreciated by Gandhi
b) Never read by Gandhi at all
c) Rejected by Gandhi
d) Returned to Abhay by Gandhi
07. Dr. Allagappa had agreed to finance the printing of the Geetopanishad and then the worst thing happened
a) Mr Chetty intervened and the book could not be printed
b) The manuscript which was kept at home was stolen
c) Abhay had a dream for not printing
d) All of a sudden Dr. Allagappa took back his words
08. Abhay wrote many articles in Bengali and they were published in
a) Nadiya Prakasha
b) The Harmonist
c) Back to Godhead
d) Gaudiya Patrika
09. BSST had always countered Abhay’s nationalistic arguments by stressing that the real crisis in the world was
a) Dearth of transcendental knowledge
b) Social
c) Political
d) Material
10. In 1948, Abhay almost _______________.
a) Lost everything in business
b) Gained back everything he had lost in business
c) Took sannyasa
d) Left Krishna Consciousness
11. Srila Bhakthi Saraswathi for 2 times appeared in Abhay’s dream and asked Abhay
a) To take Sannyasa
b) To take vanaprastha
c) GHo to the west to preach immediately
d) To join Gaudiya Math