01. A Brahmachari at both junctions of day and night, he should be fully absorbed in thoughts of
a) His spiritual master
b) Fire, the sun-god
c) Lord Vishnu
d) All the above
Srimad Bhagavatam (Bhagavata Purana)
02. The alms collected by the Brahmachari should
a) Be offered completely to the spiritual master
b) Be taken only by himself
c) Should be shared between the spiritual master and himself
d) Be given out in charity
03. Woman is compared to ______ and man to ______ and hence their indulgence should be only for important business
a) Butter pot, fire
b) Fire, butter pot
c) Pot, potter
d) Puppet, puppeteer
04. A ______ is given permission by the spiritual master to indulge in sex during the period favorable for procreation
a) Brahmachari
b) Grahastha
c) Vanaprastha
d) Sannyasi
05. By rigidly following the rules and regulations for the vanaprastha, one can easily be elevated to the upper planetary system known as ______
a) Janaloka
b) Tapaloka
c) Maharloka
d) Brhmaloka
06. A person in vanaprastha should only eat
a) Grains grown by tilling of the fields
b) Grains cooked in fire
c) Fruits ripened by the sunshine
d) Grains grown without tilling of the land but not fully ripe
07. A vanaprastha when because of old age is unable to perform his prescribed duties for advancement in spiritual consciousness,
a) He should practice fasting
b) He should only then take advice from the doctor
c) He should keep an assistant for his care
d) He should silently suffer
08. At the end of life, a vanaprastha should bestow the object of speech with the sense of speech upon ______
a) Indra
b) Vishnu
c) Fire
d) Prajapati
09. The mind, along with all material desires should be merged in the demigod_____
a) Moon
b) Sun
c) Agni
d) Indra
01. A Sannyasi should not
a) Present allurements of material benefits to gather many disciples
b) Unnecessarily read many books or give discourses as a means of livelihood
c) Attempt to increase material opulence unnecessarily
d) All the above
02. Prahlada Maharaja met a great saintly person at the banks of ______
a) Ganga
b) Yamuna
c) Kaveri
d) Godavari
03. The saintly person had adopted a ______ means of livelihood
a) Elephants’s
b) Python’s
c) Rat’s
d) Ostrich’s
04. The saintly person externally appeared
a) Very clean
b) Very thin
c) Quite fat
d) Very morose
05. The saintly person on hearing the inquiry of Prahlada Maharaja,
a) Began to reply with a smiling face
b) Became very angry
c) Remained silent
d) Began to leave the place
06. The saintly person said that he had ceased from all material activities because he realized that
a) Only spiritual happiness is real happiness and can be achieved by stopping all materialistic activities
b) Material sense enjoyment is simply imagination
c) In human form of life man and woman strive for happiness but the results are contrary
d) All the above
07. Materialistic activities are always mixed with miserable conditions namely
a) Adhyatmika
b) Adhidaivika
c) Adhibhautika
d) All the above
08. The ______ and python are 2 excellent spiritual masters who give us exemplary instructions regarding how to be satisfied by collecting only little and how to stay in one place and not move
a) House fly
b) Bee
c) Spider
d) Ant
01. Maharaj Yudhistira inquired from Narada Muni as to how being a ______ without knowledge of the goal of life one can easily attain liberation
a) Brahmachari
b) Grahastha
c) Vanaprastha
d) Sannyasi
01. The son of Paramesthi and Suvarcala was
a) Pratiha
b) Gaya
c) Udgitha
d) Viraja
02. Maharaja Gaya was also called as ________________
a) KimPurusha
b) SatPurusha
c) MahaPurusha
d) Shestha