Daily Passage Test for CLAT - Apr 27 MCQs & solutions Free

Directions: Kindly read the passage carefully and answer the questions given beside.

At the Kumbh Mela, Haridwar, in 1867, Maharishi Dayanand Saraswati did something unheard of. He installed the ‘pakhanda khandana pataka’, hypocrisy-denouncing flag, to challenge the forces of orthodoxy. And eight years later in Bombay, he went on to establish Arya Samaj that rests on the Vedic ideal: ‘Satyam paramo dharmah’, the highest religion is the religion of truth.

‘The inner self of man,’ he writes in his magnum opus Satyarth Prakash, ‘is the knower of truth and untruth, but through selfishness, stubbornness, malevolence and ignorance, he leaves truth and inclines towards untruth.’ And the Vedas, texts that are in consonance with the laws of nature, contain the Truth in its highest and purest forms.

Divinity is one in many, and many in one, believed Swamiji. God is Truth, the law of being, the upholder of ‘Rita’, cosmic order. The seemingly different gods in the Vedas represent his different aspects. Worship one god; bow before ideals and not idols, he advised. The Divine is so great that his image cannot be conceived or made. Though invoked by many names, ‘Aum’ is the first manifested sound representing him. All the key mantras begin with this sacred monosyllable that has the quintessential elements of 52 Sanskrit letters, 16 vowels and 36 consonants, each endowed with cosmic power.

‘Yajna’, according to him, is a key concept of the Vedas. The creation of the universe has been regarded as a yajna undertaken by Virat Purush, the creator. Its maintenance is possible by the continuous yajna of all beings, which means the performance of righteous actions by each member of society. Yajna is a process of spiritualising human activities.

Rejecting the theory that the brahmin was formed out of God’s mouth, the kshatriya from his arms, the vaishya from his thighs, and the shudra from his feet, Dayanand argued that this was a distortion of the scriptures which clearly laid down the social order, ought to depend on quality, action; and temperament, of a person, and not on his birth.

Q. What did Maharishi Dayanand Saraswati do at the Kumbh Mela in 1867 that was considered unconventional?

Directions: Kindly read the passage carefully and answer the questions given beside.

At the Kumbh Mela, Haridwar, in 1867, Maharishi Dayanand Saraswati did something unheard of. He installed the ‘pakhanda khandana pataka’, hypocrisy-denouncing flag, to challenge the forces of orthodoxy. And eight years later in Bombay, he went on to establish Arya Samaj that rests on the Vedic ideal: ‘Satyam paramo dharmah’, the highest religion is the religion of truth.

‘The inner self of man,’ he writes in his magnum opus Satyarth Prakash, ‘is the knower of truth and untruth, but through selfishness, stubbornness, malevolence and ignorance, he leaves truth and inclines towards untruth.’ And the Vedas, texts that are in consonance with the laws of nature, contain the Truth in its highest and purest forms.

Divinity is one in many, and many in one, believed Swamiji. God is Truth, the law of being, the upholder of ‘Rita’, cosmic order. The seemingly different gods in the Vedas represent his different aspects. Worship one god; bow before ideals and not idols, he advised. The Divine is so great that his image cannot be conceived or made. Though invoked by many names, ‘Aum’ is the first manifested sound representing him. All the key mantras begin with this sacred monosyllable that has the quintessential elements of 52 Sanskrit letters, 16 vowels and 36 consonants, each endowed with cosmic power.

‘Yajna’, according to him, is a key concept of the Vedas. The creation of the universe has been regarded as a yajna undertaken by Virat Purush, the creator. Its maintenance is possible by the continuous yajna of all beings, which means the performance of righteous actions by each member of society. Yajna is a process of spiritualising human activities.

Rejecting the theory that the brahmin was formed out of God’s mouth, the kshatriya from his arms, the vaishya from his thighs, and the shudra from his feet, Dayanand argued that this was a distortion of the scriptures which clearly laid down the social order, ought to depend on quality, action; and temperament, of a person, and not on his birth.

Q. What key concept of the Vedas did Dayanand emphasize as a way to spiritualize human activities?

Directions: Kindly read the passage carefully and answer the questions given beside.

At the Kumbh Mela, Haridwar, in 1867, Maharishi Dayanand Saraswati did something unheard of. He installed the ‘pakhanda khandana pataka’, hypocrisy-denouncing flag, to challenge the forces of orthodoxy. And eight years later in Bombay, he went on to establish Arya Samaj that rests on the Vedic ideal: ‘Satyam paramo dharmah’, the highest religion is the religion of truth.

‘The inner self of man,’ he writes in his magnum opus Satyarth Prakash, ‘is the knower of truth and untruth, but through selfishness, stubbornness, malevolence and ignorance, he leaves truth and inclines towards untruth.’ And the Vedas, texts that are in consonance with the laws of nature, contain the Truth in its highest and purest forms.

Divinity is one in many, and many in one, believed Swamiji. God is Truth, the law of being, the upholder of ‘Rita’, cosmic order. The seemingly different gods in the Vedas represent his different aspects. Worship one god; bow before ideals and not idols, he advised. The Divine is so great that his image cannot be conceived or made. Though invoked by many names, ‘Aum’ is the first manifested sound representing him. All the key mantras begin with this sacred monosyllable that has the quintessential elements of 52 Sanskrit letters, 16 vowels and 36 consonants, each endowed with cosmic power.

‘Yajna’, according to him, is a key concept of the Vedas. The creation of the universe has been regarded as a yajna undertaken by Virat Purush, the creator. Its maintenance is possible by the continuous yajna of all beings, which means the performance of righteous actions by each member of society. Yajna is a process of spiritualising human activities.

Rejecting the theory that the brahmin was formed out of God’s mouth, the kshatriya from his arms, the vaishya from his thighs, and the shudra from his feet, Dayanand argued that this was a distortion of the scriptures which clearly laid down the social order, ought to depend on quality, action; and temperament, of a person, and not on his birth.

Q. Which of the following characteristics does not lead to the path of untruth as per the passage?

Directions: Kindly read the passage carefully and answer the questions given beside.

At the Kumbh Mela, Haridwar, in 1867, Maharishi Dayanand Saraswati did something unheard of. He installed the ‘pakhanda khandana pataka’, hypocrisy-denouncing flag, to challenge the forces of orthodoxy. And eight years later in Bombay, he went on to establish Arya Samaj that rests on the Vedic ideal: ‘Satyam paramo dharmah’, the highest religion is the religion of truth.

‘The inner self of man,’ he writes in his magnum opus Satyarth Prakash, ‘is the knower of truth and untruth, but through selfishness, stubbornness, malevolence and ignorance, he leaves truth and inclines towards untruth.’ And the Vedas, texts that are in consonance with the laws of nature, contain the Truth in its highest and purest forms.

Divinity is one in many, and many in one, believed Swamiji. God is Truth, the law of being, the upholder of ‘Rita’, cosmic order. The seemingly different gods in the Vedas represent his different aspects. Worship one god; bow before ideals and not idols, he advised. The Divine is so great that his image cannot be conceived or made. Though invoked by many names, ‘Aum’ is the first manifested sound representing him. All the key mantras begin with this sacred monosyllable that has the quintessential elements of 52 Sanskrit letters, 16 vowels and 36 consonants, each endowed with cosmic power.

‘Yajna’, according to him, is a key concept of the Vedas. The creation of the universe has been regarded as a yajna undertaken by Virat Purush, the creator. Its maintenance is possible by the continuous yajna of all beings, which means the performance of righteous actions by each member of society. Yajna is a process of spiritualising human activities.

Rejecting the theory that the brahmin was formed out of God’s mouth, the kshatriya from his arms, the vaishya from his thighs, and the shudra from his feet, Dayanand argued that this was a distortion of the scriptures which clearly laid down the social order, ought to depend on quality, action; and temperament, of a person, and not on his birth.

Q. As per a previous theory, which of the following is said to be formed out of God’s arm?

Directions: Kindly read the passage carefully and answer the questions given beside.

At the Kumbh Mela, Haridwar, in 1867, Maharishi Dayanand Saraswati did something unheard of. He installed the ‘pakhanda khandana pataka’, hypocrisy-denouncing flag, to challenge the forces of orthodoxy. And eight years later in Bombay, he went on to establish Arya Samaj that rests on the Vedic ideal: ‘Satyam paramo dharmah’, the highest religion is the religion of truth.

‘The inner self of man,’ he writes in his magnum opus Satyarth Prakash, ‘is the knower of truth and untruth, but through selfishness, stubbornness, malevolence and ignorance, he leaves truth and inclines towards untruth.’ And the Vedas, texts that are in consonance with the laws of nature, contain the Truth in its highest and purest forms.

Divinity is one in many, and many in one, believed Swamiji. God is Truth, the law of being, the upholder of ‘Rita’, cosmic order. The seemingly different gods in the Vedas represent his different aspects. Worship one god; bow before ideals and not idols, he advised. The Divine is so great that his image cannot be conceived or made. Though invoked by many names, ‘Aum’ is the first manifested sound representing him. All the key mantras begin with this sacred monosyllable that has the quintessential elements of 52 Sanskrit letters, 16 vowels and 36 consonants, each endowed with cosmic power.

‘Yajna’, according to him, is a key concept of the Vedas. The creation of the universe has been regarded as a yajna undertaken by Virat Purush, the creator. Its maintenance is possible by the continuous yajna of all beings, which means the performance of righteous actions by each member of society. Yajna is a process of spiritualising human activities.

Rejecting the theory that the brahmin was formed out of God’s mouth, the kshatriya from his arms, the vaishya from his thighs, and the shudra from his feet, Dayanand argued that this was a distortion of the scriptures which clearly laid down the social order, ought to depend on quality, action; and temperament, of a person, and not on his birth.

Q. Which of the following is false about ‘yajna’ as per Swami Dayanand Saraswati?