BHAGAVAD GITA QUIZ
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Iskcondesiretree.net; Rojer Patel Jaipur
Questions and Answers
of Bhagavad Gita in Quiz from
Bhagavad Gita CHAPTER 01
Observing the Armies on the Battlefield
of Kuruksetra
1. Why Dhrtarastra
had the fear of losing the battle?
a) Because the battle was to take place at dharma-ksetra, which is a place of pilgrimage
b) Because pandavas were virtuous by nature
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 01.01
2. What is the significance of the words dharma-ksetre and kuru-ksetre apart from their historical and Vedic importance?
a) In the field of Kuruksetra the father of religion is Krishna
b) In the field of Kuruksetra unwanted plants like Dhrtarastra’s son Duryodhana and others would be wiped out
c) In the field of Kuruksetra religious persons headed by Yudhisthira would be established by the Lord
d) All of the above
BG 01.01
3. Why Duryodhana pointed out Dronacarya’s mistake in relation to his disciple Dhrstadyumna, the son of Drupada?
a) So that Dronacarya is alert and uncompromising in the fighting
b) So that Dronacarya is not lenient in the battle against Pandavas
c) So that Dronacarya’s such leniency if be any, would lead to defeat of Duryodhana’s party
d) All of the above
BG 01.03
4. On account of the presence of great warriors on Duryodhana’s party like Bhisma and others, what was his conclusion on the result of the battle?
a) He was confident of his victory
b) He was also doubtful of his victory like his father
c) He had no opinion
d) None of these
BG 01.09
5. Duryodhana after praising Bhisma as a far superior general, why asks others to support him?
a) Because he wanted everyone to feel important
b) Because he didn’t wanted anyone to be felt neglected
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 01.11
6. What did actually Bhisma’s loud blowing of conchshell symbolized for Duryodhana?
a) It symbolized of cheering Duryodhana
b) It symbolized that Duryodhana had no chance of victory in the battle
c) It symbolized of definite victory of Duryodhana
d) It had no meaning at all
BG 01.12
7. Wherever Krishna is present, the _____________ is also present.
a) Transcendental conchshell
b) Goddess of fortune
c) Appearance
d) Activity
BG 01.14
8. The chariot on which Arjuna and Krishna were seated was donated by ____________.
a) The fire-god
b) The sun-god
c) Indra
d) Lord Shiva
BG 01.14
9. What are the names of Krishna and Arjuna’s conchshell?
a) Ananta-vijaya and Dhananjaya
b) Sughosa and Manipushpaka
c) Pancajanya and Devadatta
d) None of these
BG 01.15
10. Why the hearts of the sons of Dhrtarastra were shattered by the sound vibrated by the Pandava’s conchshell?
a) Because Pandavs were expert in the art of blowing the conchshell
b) Because Pandavas had full confidence in Krishna, that Krishna would take care of them
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 01.19
11. What was Arjuna’s flag marked with?
a) Fire-god
b) Hanuman
c) Goddess of fortune
d) Sword
BG 01.20
12. Was Arjuna’s chariot bearing the flag also a sign of victory?
a) Yes
b) No
BG 01.20
a) Because the battle was to take place at dharma-ksetra, which is a place of pilgrimage
b) Because pandavas were virtuous by nature
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 01.01
2. What is the significance of the words dharma-ksetre and kuru-ksetre apart from their historical and Vedic importance?
a) In the field of Kuruksetra the father of religion is Krishna
b) In the field of Kuruksetra unwanted plants like Dhrtarastra’s son Duryodhana and others would be wiped out
c) In the field of Kuruksetra religious persons headed by Yudhisthira would be established by the Lord
d) All of the above
BG 01.01
3. Why Duryodhana pointed out Dronacarya’s mistake in relation to his disciple Dhrstadyumna, the son of Drupada?
a) So that Dronacarya is alert and uncompromising in the fighting
b) So that Dronacarya is not lenient in the battle against Pandavas
c) So that Dronacarya’s such leniency if be any, would lead to defeat of Duryodhana’s party
d) All of the above
BG 01.03
4. On account of the presence of great warriors on Duryodhana’s party like Bhisma and others, what was his conclusion on the result of the battle?
a) He was confident of his victory
b) He was also doubtful of his victory like his father
c) He had no opinion
d) None of these
BG 01.09
5. Duryodhana after praising Bhisma as a far superior general, why asks others to support him?
a) Because he wanted everyone to feel important
b) Because he didn’t wanted anyone to be felt neglected
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 01.11
6. What did actually Bhisma’s loud blowing of conchshell symbolized for Duryodhana?
a) It symbolized of cheering Duryodhana
b) It symbolized that Duryodhana had no chance of victory in the battle
c) It symbolized of definite victory of Duryodhana
d) It had no meaning at all
BG 01.12
7. Wherever Krishna is present, the _____________ is also present.
a) Transcendental conchshell
b) Goddess of fortune
c) Appearance
d) Activity
BG 01.14
8. The chariot on which Arjuna and Krishna were seated was donated by ____________.
a) The fire-god
b) The sun-god
c) Indra
d) Lord Shiva
BG 01.14
9. What are the names of Krishna and Arjuna’s conchshell?
a) Ananta-vijaya and Dhananjaya
b) Sughosa and Manipushpaka
c) Pancajanya and Devadatta
d) None of these
BG 01.15
10. Why the hearts of the sons of Dhrtarastra were shattered by the sound vibrated by the Pandava’s conchshell?
a) Because Pandavs were expert in the art of blowing the conchshell
b) Because Pandavas had full confidence in Krishna, that Krishna would take care of them
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 01.19
11. What was Arjuna’s flag marked with?
a) Fire-god
b) Hanuman
c) Goddess of fortune
d) Sword
BG 01.20
12. Was Arjuna’s chariot bearing the flag also a sign of victory?
a) Yes
b) No
BG 01.20
1. Although Lord
Krishna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, why does He carry out the orders
of Arjuna?
a) Because Arjuna is a pure devotee of the Lord
b) Because the Lord takes great transcendental pleasure when a pure devotee is ordering Him
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 1.21 & 1.22
2. Krishna is _____________, which means He never fails in His __________ for His _______________.
a) Transcendental, endeavor, engagement
b) Infallible, affection, devotees
c) Supreme, attempts, peace
d) Great, service, senses
BG 1.21 & 1.22
3. Why did Arjuna ask Krishna his chariot to be taken to the midst of the two armies?
a) Because he wanted to see the leading persons present on the battlefield
b) So that he would get an estimate of the strength of the opposite party which he had to face
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 1.22 & 1.23
4. How could Arjuna conquer both sleep and ignorance?
a) Because of his friendship with Krishna
b) Because of his power
c) Because being born in a ksatriya family
d) Because being the son of queen Kunti
BG 1.24
5. Krishna is Hrsikesa, ________________________________________.
a) The conqueror of sleep and ignorance
b) The conqueror of wealth
c) The director of the Pandavas army
d) The director of the senses and mind of every living entity
BG 1.24
6. What did Krishna mean when He told Arjuna to “behold the Kurus”?
a) Krishna read Arjuna’s mind, and Arjuna becoming overwhelmed with compassion for his relatives
b) Krishna predicted Arjuna’s mind in a friendly joking
c) Krishna didn’t expected such response from Arjuna, the son of Kunti
d) All of the above
BG 1.25
1. Upon seeing his kinsmen, relatives and friends, on the battlefield, why Arjuna feels his limbs of the body quivering and thus is overwhelmed with compassion?
a) Because of the weakness of the heart
b) Because of his soft heartedness which is the characteristic of a pure devotee
c) Because of fear of loss of life due to material concept of life
d) Both b & c
BG 1.28 & 1.29
2. Arjuna calls Krishna Govinda, which means _________________________.
a) Krishna is the master of everyone
b) Krishna is the object of all pleasures for cows and the senses
c) Krishna is the object of all transcendental pleasure
d) Krishna is the master of the senses
BG 1.32
3. How can the desires of the living entity be satisfied?
a) When the living entity tries to satisfy the senses of Govinda
b) When the living entity lives a very charitable life
c) When the living entity renounces everything
d) None of these
BG 1.32
4. How many kinds of aggressors are there according to Vedic injunctions?
a) Two
b) Three
c) Ten
d) Six
BG 1.36
5. Why Arjuna fears of sinful reactions?
a) Because of killing his kinsmen
b) Because engaging in the fight would just be for the matter of temporary bodily happiness
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 1.36
6. Arjuna calls Krishna as ______________, which means husband of the goddess of fortune.
a) Madhusudhana
b) Narayana
c) Janardana
d) Madhava
BG 1.36
7. Why Arjuna points out Krishna to not induce him to fight which would cause his misfortune?
a) Because Krishna is the killer of the demon Keshi
b) Because Krishna is the husband of the goddess of fortune
c) Because Krishna is very source of pleasures
d) None of these
BG 1.36
8. What according to Arjuna will be the consequences if the elders of the family are killed?
a) Family traditions of purification may stop
b) Younger family members would develop irreligious habits and would lose their chance for spiritual salvation
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 1.39
9. Good population for the spiritual progress in the society depends on the _________ and _________ of its womanhood.
a) Chastity
b) Faithfulness
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 1.40
10. Due to the evil deeds of the destroyers of family tradition, all kinds of ________________ projects and ______________ activities are devastated.
a) Community, family welfare
b) Serious, pious
c) General, serious
d) Pious, fruitive
BG 1.42
11. All these arguments which Arjuna presents before Krishna as why he should not fight were ____________________.
a) Based on Arjuna’s personal experience.
b) Heard by Arjuna from authorities
c) Real
d) None of these
BG 1.43
12. Arjuna finally casts aside his bow and sits down on the chariot, having decided not to _________________.
a) Lament
b) Understand
c) Fight
d) Inquire
BG 1.46
a) Because Arjuna is a pure devotee of the Lord
b) Because the Lord takes great transcendental pleasure when a pure devotee is ordering Him
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 1.21 & 1.22
2. Krishna is _____________, which means He never fails in His __________ for His _______________.
a) Transcendental, endeavor, engagement
b) Infallible, affection, devotees
c) Supreme, attempts, peace
d) Great, service, senses
BG 1.21 & 1.22
3. Why did Arjuna ask Krishna his chariot to be taken to the midst of the two armies?
a) Because he wanted to see the leading persons present on the battlefield
b) So that he would get an estimate of the strength of the opposite party which he had to face
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 1.22 & 1.23
4. How could Arjuna conquer both sleep and ignorance?
a) Because of his friendship with Krishna
b) Because of his power
c) Because being born in a ksatriya family
d) Because being the son of queen Kunti
BG 1.24
5. Krishna is Hrsikesa, ________________________________________.
a) The conqueror of sleep and ignorance
b) The conqueror of wealth
c) The director of the Pandavas army
d) The director of the senses and mind of every living entity
BG 1.24
6. What did Krishna mean when He told Arjuna to “behold the Kurus”?
a) Krishna read Arjuna’s mind, and Arjuna becoming overwhelmed with compassion for his relatives
b) Krishna predicted Arjuna’s mind in a friendly joking
c) Krishna didn’t expected such response from Arjuna, the son of Kunti
d) All of the above
BG 1.25
1. Upon seeing his kinsmen, relatives and friends, on the battlefield, why Arjuna feels his limbs of the body quivering and thus is overwhelmed with compassion?
a) Because of the weakness of the heart
b) Because of his soft heartedness which is the characteristic of a pure devotee
c) Because of fear of loss of life due to material concept of life
d) Both b & c
BG 1.28 & 1.29
2. Arjuna calls Krishna Govinda, which means _________________________.
a) Krishna is the master of everyone
b) Krishna is the object of all pleasures for cows and the senses
c) Krishna is the object of all transcendental pleasure
d) Krishna is the master of the senses
BG 1.32
3. How can the desires of the living entity be satisfied?
a) When the living entity tries to satisfy the senses of Govinda
b) When the living entity lives a very charitable life
c) When the living entity renounces everything
d) None of these
BG 1.32
4. How many kinds of aggressors are there according to Vedic injunctions?
a) Two
b) Three
c) Ten
d) Six
BG 1.36
5. Why Arjuna fears of sinful reactions?
a) Because of killing his kinsmen
b) Because engaging in the fight would just be for the matter of temporary bodily happiness
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 1.36
6. Arjuna calls Krishna as ______________, which means husband of the goddess of fortune.
a) Madhusudhana
b) Narayana
c) Janardana
d) Madhava
BG 1.36
7. Why Arjuna points out Krishna to not induce him to fight which would cause his misfortune?
a) Because Krishna is the killer of the demon Keshi
b) Because Krishna is the husband of the goddess of fortune
c) Because Krishna is very source of pleasures
d) None of these
BG 1.36
8. What according to Arjuna will be the consequences if the elders of the family are killed?
a) Family traditions of purification may stop
b) Younger family members would develop irreligious habits and would lose their chance for spiritual salvation
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 1.39
9. Good population for the spiritual progress in the society depends on the _________ and _________ of its womanhood.
a) Chastity
b) Faithfulness
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 1.40
10. Due to the evil deeds of the destroyers of family tradition, all kinds of ________________ projects and ______________ activities are devastated.
a) Community, family welfare
b) Serious, pious
c) General, serious
d) Pious, fruitive
BG 1.42
11. All these arguments which Arjuna presents before Krishna as why he should not fight were ____________________.
a) Based on Arjuna’s personal experience.
b) Heard by Arjuna from authorities
c) Real
d) None of these
BG 1.43
12. Arjuna finally casts aside his bow and sits down on the chariot, having decided not to _________________.
a) Lament
b) Understand
c) Fight
d) Inquire
BG 1.46
Bhagavad Gita CHAPTER 02
Contents of the Gita Summarized
1. 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
BG 2.1
2. The three phases of Absolute truth are compared to ____________.
a) Sun
b) Devotion
c) Devotees
d) Progressive values of life
BG 2.2
3. 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
BG 2.2
4. 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
BG 2.2
5. What Arjuna considers sinful?
a) Killing his superiors
b) Killing his own devotional service
c) Killing his mother
d) All of these
BG 2.4 & 2.5
6. 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
BG 2.7
7. Finally, Arjuna accepts Krishna as his _______________.
a) Friend
b) Spiritual master
c) Disciple
d) None of the above
BG 2.7
8. Krishna and the living entities ______________are eternal.
a) Individuality
b) Scriptures
c) Spirit
d) Conditioning
BG 2.12
9. 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
BG 2.12
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
BG 2.13
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
BG 2.14
a) Fire covered by smoke
b) Saving the dress of a drowning man
c) Killing the demon of misunderstanding
d) All of these
BG 2.1
2. The three phases of Absolute truth are compared to ____________.
a) Sun
b) Devotion
c) Devotees
d) Progressive values of life
BG 2.2
3. 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
BG 2.2
4. 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
BG 2.2
5. What Arjuna considers sinful?
a) Killing his superiors
b) Killing his own devotional service
c) Killing his mother
d) All of these
BG 2.4 & 2.5
6. 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
BG 2.7
7. Finally, Arjuna accepts Krishna as his _______________.
a) Friend
b) Spiritual master
c) Disciple
d) None of the above
BG 2.7
8. Krishna and the living entities ______________are eternal.
a) Individuality
b) Scriptures
c) Spirit
d) Conditioning
BG 2.12
9. 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
BG 2.12
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
BG 2.13
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
BG 2.14
1. Which of the
following is accepted as the Supreme?
a) Energy
b) Energetic
c) Energizer
d) None of the above
BG 2.16
2. What is spread all over the body?
a) Consciousness
b) Pain
c) Pleasure
d) Knowledge
BG 2.17
3. 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
BG 2.17
4. The soul is floating in __________ kinds of air, situated within the heart.
a) Five
b) Seven
c) Nine
d) Eleven
BG 2.17
5. 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
BG 2.19
6. Does the soul produce any by-product?
a) Yes
b) No
BG 2.20
7. 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
BG 2.19 to 2.25
8. 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
BG 2.22
9. 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
BG 2.26
10. How is the soul described as amazing?
a) Soul has innumerable qualities
b) Soul is known for its constitution
c) Soul is such a small particle which is both so great and so small
d) None of these
BG 2.29
a) Energy
b) Energetic
c) Energizer
d) None of the above
BG 2.16
2. What is spread all over the body?
a) Consciousness
b) Pain
c) Pleasure
d) Knowledge
BG 2.17
3. 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
BG 2.17
4. The soul is floating in __________ kinds of air, situated within the heart.
a) Five
b) Seven
c) Nine
d) Eleven
BG 2.17
5. 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
BG 2.19
6. Does the soul produce any by-product?
a) Yes
b) No
BG 2.20
7. 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
BG 2.19 to 2.25
8. 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
BG 2.22
9. 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
BG 2.26
10. How is the soul described as amazing?
a) Soul has innumerable qualities
b) Soul is known for its constitution
c) Soul is such a small particle which is both so great and so small
d) None of these
BG 2.29
1. Even if Arjuna
identifies with his body as kshatriya body, then also, how by fighting he would
enjoy?
a) If he wins then he would enjoy the earth
b) If he dies then he would go to heaven
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 2.32
2. How, by not fighting the war, Arjuna would be affected?
a) Being a kshatriya, fighting is his duty as performing sacrifice is the duty of a brahmana
b) By not fighting he would be neglecting his duties and incur sinful reactions
c) By not fighting he would lose his reputation as a great warrior
d) All of the above
BG 2.33
3. Final judgment of the Lord for Arjuna was to ___________ the battle.
a) Withdraw from
b) Die in
c) Mislead
d) None of the above
BG 2.34
4. For the sake of fighting, which of the following Krishna asks Arjuna to consider?
a) Happiness or distress
b) Loss or gain
c) Victory or defeat
d) None of these
BG 2.38
5. What is the unique quality of work done in Krishna consciousness?
a) Work begun in Krishna consciousness has a permanent effect, even though not finished
b) The performer of the Krishna conscious work is never at a loss even his work in Krishna consciousness is incomplete
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 2.40
a) If he wins then he would enjoy the earth
b) If he dies then he would go to heaven
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 2.32
2. How, by not fighting the war, Arjuna would be affected?
a) Being a kshatriya, fighting is his duty as performing sacrifice is the duty of a brahmana
b) By not fighting he would be neglecting his duties and incur sinful reactions
c) By not fighting he would lose his reputation as a great warrior
d) All of the above
BG 2.33
3. Final judgment of the Lord for Arjuna was to ___________ the battle.
a) Withdraw from
b) Die in
c) Mislead
d) None of the above
BG 2.34
4. For the sake of fighting, which of the following Krishna asks Arjuna to consider?
a) Happiness or distress
b) Loss or gain
c) Victory or defeat
d) None of these
BG 2.38
5. What is the unique quality of work done in Krishna consciousness?
a) Work begun in Krishna consciousness has a permanent effect, even though not finished
b) The performer of the Krishna conscious work is never at a loss even his work in Krishna consciousness is incomplete
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 2.40
1. What does
capricious work means?
a) Activities performed while one is in the modes of material nature
b) Actions without the sanction of authority
c) Not performing one’s duties
d) None of these
BG 2.47
2. Why one shouldn’t be attached to the results of his work?
a) Because it causes bondage
b) Acting without attachment leads one to the path of liberation
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 2.47
3. Buddhi yoga means ______________.
a) Success in the work
b) Resultant action’s consciousness
c) Hard labor
d) Transcendental loving service to the Lord
BG 2.49
4. A man engaged in devotional service rids himself of _________________ actions in this life.
a) Good
b) Bad
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 2.50
5. What are the results of performing devotional service?
a) Indifference to Vedic rituals
b) Freedom from sinful reactions, birth and death
c) Remains fixed in the trance of self-realization
d) All of the above
BG 2.51, 2.52 & 2.53
6. What are the symptoms of one who is in pure transcendental consciousness?
a) He gives up all kinds of sense desire arising from mental concoction
b) Takes pleasure in himself by realizing himself as the eternal servitor of the Lord
c) Remains happy in eternally serving the Lord
d) All of the above
BG 2.55
7. Why a sage of steady mind not at all disturbed by the onslaughts of the threefold miseries?
a) Because he can agitate his mind in various ways
b) Because he accepts all miseries as the mercy of the Lord
c) Because he is detached
d) None of these
BG 2.56
8. A sage of steady mind is daring and active for Krishna’s service when he is ________________.
a) Successful
b) Unsuccessful
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 2.56
9. What is the test of a devotee for him to be a self-realized soul?
a) He must be very strong to control his senses
b) He must be well versed in Vedic hymns
c) He must be compassionate
d) None of the above
BG 2.58
10. According to BG 2.58 which among the following sets the example of keeping the senses always in the service of the Lord?
a) Serpent
b) Tortoise
c) Peacock
d) Frog
BG 2.58
11. Artificial ceasing of senses by _________________, the mind dwells on sense objects.
a) Recommendation
b) Rules and regulations
c) Advancement
d) Consciousness
BG 2.59
12. Due to ___________________, many learned sages fall victim to material sense enjoyment.
a) Consciousness
b) Hunger
c) Discrimination
d) Agitated mind
BG 2.60
1. Who is a man of steady intelligence?
a) One who restrains his senses
b) One who fixes his consciousness on Krishna
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 2.61
2. By contemplating the _________________, one develops attachment, then lust, anger, delusion, bewilderment of ___________, ____________ is lost, then one falls down.
a) Impersonal form, intelligence, memory
b) Objects of the senses, memory, intelligence
c) Objects of the senses, consciousness, renunciation
d) Impersonal form, absolute, consciousness
BG 2.62 & 2.63
3. What is the result of controlling one’s senses by practicing principles of freedom?
a) Freedom from all attachment
b) Attainment of mercy of Krishna
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 2.64
4. How does one in transcendental consciousness attains peace?
a) Accepting that Krishna is the Supreme enjoyer, proprietor and friend of everyone
b) Engages oneself in the service of Krishna with a relationship
c) Desires everything for Krishna & is devoid of false ego
d) All of the above
BG 2.66, 2.70 & 2.71
5. What is the correct technique for controlling the mind?
a) All of the senses must be engaged in Krishna consciousness
b) Any one of the senses must be engaged in Krishna consciousness
c) Any number of the senses must be engaged in Krishna consciousness
d) None of these
BG 2.67
6. How is devotional service non-different from being in the spiritual world?
a) As both of them are on the absolute plane
b) As both of them are for the engagement in transcendental loving service of the Lord
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 2.72
a) Activities performed while one is in the modes of material nature
b) Actions without the sanction of authority
c) Not performing one’s duties
d) None of these
BG 2.47
2. Why one shouldn’t be attached to the results of his work?
a) Because it causes bondage
b) Acting without attachment leads one to the path of liberation
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 2.47
3. Buddhi yoga means ______________.
a) Success in the work
b) Resultant action’s consciousness
c) Hard labor
d) Transcendental loving service to the Lord
BG 2.49
4. A man engaged in devotional service rids himself of _________________ actions in this life.
a) Good
b) Bad
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 2.50
5. What are the results of performing devotional service?
a) Indifference to Vedic rituals
b) Freedom from sinful reactions, birth and death
c) Remains fixed in the trance of self-realization
d) All of the above
BG 2.51, 2.52 & 2.53
6. What are the symptoms of one who is in pure transcendental consciousness?
a) He gives up all kinds of sense desire arising from mental concoction
b) Takes pleasure in himself by realizing himself as the eternal servitor of the Lord
c) Remains happy in eternally serving the Lord
d) All of the above
BG 2.55
7. Why a sage of steady mind not at all disturbed by the onslaughts of the threefold miseries?
a) Because he can agitate his mind in various ways
b) Because he accepts all miseries as the mercy of the Lord
c) Because he is detached
d) None of these
BG 2.56
8. A sage of steady mind is daring and active for Krishna’s service when he is ________________.
a) Successful
b) Unsuccessful
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 2.56
9. What is the test of a devotee for him to be a self-realized soul?
a) He must be very strong to control his senses
b) He must be well versed in Vedic hymns
c) He must be compassionate
d) None of the above
BG 2.58
10. According to BG 2.58 which among the following sets the example of keeping the senses always in the service of the Lord?
a) Serpent
b) Tortoise
c) Peacock
d) Frog
BG 2.58
11. Artificial ceasing of senses by _________________, the mind dwells on sense objects.
a) Recommendation
b) Rules and regulations
c) Advancement
d) Consciousness
BG 2.59
12. Due to ___________________, many learned sages fall victim to material sense enjoyment.
a) Consciousness
b) Hunger
c) Discrimination
d) Agitated mind
BG 2.60
1. Who is a man of steady intelligence?
a) One who restrains his senses
b) One who fixes his consciousness on Krishna
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 2.61
2. By contemplating the _________________, one develops attachment, then lust, anger, delusion, bewilderment of ___________, ____________ is lost, then one falls down.
a) Impersonal form, intelligence, memory
b) Objects of the senses, memory, intelligence
c) Objects of the senses, consciousness, renunciation
d) Impersonal form, absolute, consciousness
BG 2.62 & 2.63
3. What is the result of controlling one’s senses by practicing principles of freedom?
a) Freedom from all attachment
b) Attainment of mercy of Krishna
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 2.64
4. How does one in transcendental consciousness attains peace?
a) Accepting that Krishna is the Supreme enjoyer, proprietor and friend of everyone
b) Engages oneself in the service of Krishna with a relationship
c) Desires everything for Krishna & is devoid of false ego
d) All of the above
BG 2.66, 2.70 & 2.71
5. What is the correct technique for controlling the mind?
a) All of the senses must be engaged in Krishna consciousness
b) Any one of the senses must be engaged in Krishna consciousness
c) Any number of the senses must be engaged in Krishna consciousness
d) None of these
BG 2.67
6. How is devotional service non-different from being in the spiritual world?
a) As both of them are on the absolute plane
b) As both of them are for the engagement in transcendental loving service of the Lord
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 2.72
Bhagavad Gita CHAPTER 03
Karma-Yoga
Karma-Yoga
1. How many classes
of men are there who realize the self?
a) Two
b) Three
c) Five
d) Ten
BG 3.3
2. Being active is the nature of the ___________.
a) Materialism
b) Soul
c) Vedas
d) Impersonalist
BG 3.5
3. Why renunciation for the purpose of maintenance is never approved by the Lord?
a) Because it doesn’t cleanse the heart from material contamination
b) It makes one just a mere pretender
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 3.8
4. What if work performed is not sacrificed for Vishnu?
a) That work binds one to this material world
b) One remains unattached
c) One is free from bondage
d) All of these
BG 3.9
5. Why is it said that people, who eat for sense gratification, eat only sin?
a) Because they don’t share anything
b) Because they are very self centered
c) Because they don’t first offer the food to the Lord before eating it
d) None of these
BG 3.13
a) Two
b) Three
c) Five
d) Ten
BG 3.3
2. Being active is the nature of the ___________.
a) Materialism
b) Soul
c) Vedas
d) Impersonalist
BG 3.5
3. Why renunciation for the purpose of maintenance is never approved by the Lord?
a) Because it doesn’t cleanse the heart from material contamination
b) It makes one just a mere pretender
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 3.8
4. What if work performed is not sacrificed for Vishnu?
a) That work binds one to this material world
b) One remains unattached
c) One is free from bondage
d) All of these
BG 3.9
5. Why is it said that people, who eat for sense gratification, eat only sin?
a) Because they don’t share anything
b) Because they are very self centered
c) Because they don’t first offer the food to the Lord before eating it
d) None of these
BG 3.13
1. What are yajnas
meant for?
a) To lead one to the point of moral codes
b) To transcend them to attain Krishna consciousness
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 3.16
2. Why a fully Krishna conscious person has no duty to perform to transcend him?
a) Because all his impurities are cleansed instantly
b) Because he knows his eternal position in relationship with Krishna
c) Because he is not obligated to the vedic injunctions
d) All of these
BG 3.17
3. By working __________________ one attains Supreme.
a) In Krishna consciousness
b) Under proper guidance
c) Without attachment
d) All of these
BG 3.19
4. How a great man should be so that the common men would follow in his footsteps?
a) He must follow the principles of scriptures
b) He must be conversant with moral and spiritual codes
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 3.21
5. Why Krishna follows the religious duties even when there is no need for Him to perform?
a) Because common men would follow in His foot steps
b) Because Krishna is the greatest authority
c) Because He descended to establish the principles of religion
d) All of these
BG 3.23
6. How should a Krishna conscious person approach an ignorant man attached to fruitive action?
a) By not discouraging an ignorant man in his activities
b) By engaging him in the service of Krishna
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 3.26
7. Which of the following is a symptom of nescience?
a) A person who has no knowledge that ultimately he is under the control of Krishna
b) One who doesn’t engage himself in sense gratification
c) One who lacks confidence in Krishna
d) One who is unaware of his surroundings
BG 3.27
8. Duties must be carried out with ________________________.
a) Full confidence
b) Dependence on Krishna
c) Sacrifice
d) Stern order
BG 3.30
1. What is the result of executing one’s duties according to the injunction of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krishna?
a) One attains a good character
b) One becomes free from the bondage of fruitive actions
c) One becomes very pleased
d) None of these
BG 3.31
2. What are the stumbling blocks on the path of self realization?
a) Senses
b) Sense objects
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 3.34
3. For whom among the following the four varnas duties are immaterial to perform?
a) One who is transcendentally situated
b) One who is on the material platform
c) One who is a impersonalist
d) All of these
BG 3.35
4. As the living entity is the part and parcel of the Supreme, and is originally spiritual, pure and free from material contaminations then how is he subjected to sinful acts?
a) Due to the contact of material creation
b) In the association with mode of passion his love for Krishna is transformed into lust
c) Unsatisfied lust transforms to wrath and then to illusion
d) All of the above
BG 3.36 & 3.37
5. When can lust and wrath become our true friends?
a) When are organized
b) When are they executed in Krishna’s service
c) When they are understood properly
d) When they are covered with satisfaction
BG 3.37
6. The living entity is ______________________ with different degrees of lust.
a) Cleansed
b) Referred
c) Covered
d) Compared
BG 3.38
7. Which of the following is the sitting place for lust?
a) Mind
b) Senses
c) Intelligence
d) All of the above
BG 3.40
8. Which of the following destroys the urge for self-realization?
a) Lust
b) Body
c) Intelligence
d) None of these
BG 3.41
9. Which of the following is the most inferior?
a) Senses and mind
b) Intelligence
c) Soul
d) Dull matter
BG 3.42
10. How can one control the material senses, the mind and the intelligence?
a) By practicing yogic postures
b) By merging into the Supreme
c) By Krishna consciousness
d) None of the above
BG 3.43
a) To lead one to the point of moral codes
b) To transcend them to attain Krishna consciousness
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 3.16
2. Why a fully Krishna conscious person has no duty to perform to transcend him?
a) Because all his impurities are cleansed instantly
b) Because he knows his eternal position in relationship with Krishna
c) Because he is not obligated to the vedic injunctions
d) All of these
BG 3.17
3. By working __________________ one attains Supreme.
a) In Krishna consciousness
b) Under proper guidance
c) Without attachment
d) All of these
BG 3.19
4. How a great man should be so that the common men would follow in his footsteps?
a) He must follow the principles of scriptures
b) He must be conversant with moral and spiritual codes
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 3.21
5. Why Krishna follows the religious duties even when there is no need for Him to perform?
a) Because common men would follow in His foot steps
b) Because Krishna is the greatest authority
c) Because He descended to establish the principles of religion
d) All of these
BG 3.23
6. How should a Krishna conscious person approach an ignorant man attached to fruitive action?
a) By not discouraging an ignorant man in his activities
b) By engaging him in the service of Krishna
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 3.26
7. Which of the following is a symptom of nescience?
a) A person who has no knowledge that ultimately he is under the control of Krishna
b) One who doesn’t engage himself in sense gratification
c) One who lacks confidence in Krishna
d) One who is unaware of his surroundings
BG 3.27
8. Duties must be carried out with ________________________.
a) Full confidence
b) Dependence on Krishna
c) Sacrifice
d) Stern order
BG 3.30
1. What is the result of executing one’s duties according to the injunction of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krishna?
a) One attains a good character
b) One becomes free from the bondage of fruitive actions
c) One becomes very pleased
d) None of these
BG 3.31
2. What are the stumbling blocks on the path of self realization?
a) Senses
b) Sense objects
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 3.34
3. For whom among the following the four varnas duties are immaterial to perform?
a) One who is transcendentally situated
b) One who is on the material platform
c) One who is a impersonalist
d) All of these
BG 3.35
4. As the living entity is the part and parcel of the Supreme, and is originally spiritual, pure and free from material contaminations then how is he subjected to sinful acts?
a) Due to the contact of material creation
b) In the association with mode of passion his love for Krishna is transformed into lust
c) Unsatisfied lust transforms to wrath and then to illusion
d) All of the above
BG 3.36 & 3.37
5. When can lust and wrath become our true friends?
a) When are organized
b) When are they executed in Krishna’s service
c) When they are understood properly
d) When they are covered with satisfaction
BG 3.37
6. The living entity is ______________________ with different degrees of lust.
a) Cleansed
b) Referred
c) Covered
d) Compared
BG 3.38
7. Which of the following is the sitting place for lust?
a) Mind
b) Senses
c) Intelligence
d) All of the above
BG 3.40
8. Which of the following destroys the urge for self-realization?
a) Lust
b) Body
c) Intelligence
d) None of these
BG 3.41
9. Which of the following is the most inferior?
a) Senses and mind
b) Intelligence
c) Soul
d) Dull matter
BG 3.42
10. How can one control the material senses, the mind and the intelligence?
a) By practicing yogic postures
b) By merging into the Supreme
c) By Krishna consciousness
d) None of the above
BG 3.43
Bhagavad Gita CHAPTER 04
Divya Gyana
1. Who instructed the
knowledge of BG to Ikshvaku?
a) Sun-god
b) Vivasvan
c) Manu
d) Krishna
BG 4.1
2. Why the science of BG appears to be lost in this present moment?
a) Because original BG in not available right now
b) Because all of them are not according to the authorized disciplic succession
c) Because most of them do not accept Krishna as the Supreme Personality of Godhead
d) Both b & c
BG 4.2
3. Why Krishna chose Arjuna for delivering the science of BG?
a) Because Arjuna was a devotee of the Lord
b) Because Arjuna was Krishna’s friend
c) He can understand the transcendental knowledge as told by Krishna
d) All of the above
BG 4.3
4. Why Arjuna inquires about the fact that, Krishna instructed the knowledge of BG to Vivasvan who is senior in birth to Krishna?
a) Because Arjuna was doubtful of believing Krishna’s words
b) Because Arjuna asked this for demoniac people who don’t accept Krishna to be the Supreme Personality of Godhead
c) Because Arjuna was himself not aware of the fact that Krishna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead
d) All of the above
BG 4.4
5. What answer Krishna gives in reply for Arjuna’s question stated above in ques. 4?
a) Krishna is unborn
b) Krishna’s body never deteriorates
c) Krishna appears in every millennium in His original transcendental form
d) All of the above
BG 4.6
6. Why and when the Lord appears in this world?
a) Whenever there is predominance of irreligiosity and disappearance of true religion
b) To deliver the pious and annihilate the miscreants
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 4.7 & 4.8
7. How does one attain Lord’s eternal abode after leaving this body?
a) Being charitable
b) By understanding the transcendental nature of the body and activities of the Lord
c) By relieving oneself from the bondage of material hankerings
d) By performing yogic process
BG 4.9
8. How Krishna reciprocates with His devotees in the transcendental world?
a) He reciprocates according to the devotee’s desire
b) He reciprocates according to the devotee’s fearlessness
c) He reciprocates according to the devotee’s perfection
d) None of these
BG 4.11
9. Who is the creator of the four divisions of the social order?
a) Manu
b) Brahma
c) Krishna
d) None of these
BG 4.13
10. Why Krishna asks Arjuna to act in Krishna consciousness following in the footsteps of past liberated souls?
a) Then Arjuna will attain liberation
b) Then Arjuna would perfect his life
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 4.15
a) Sun-god
b) Vivasvan
c) Manu
d) Krishna
BG 4.1
2. Why the science of BG appears to be lost in this present moment?
a) Because original BG in not available right now
b) Because all of them are not according to the authorized disciplic succession
c) Because most of them do not accept Krishna as the Supreme Personality of Godhead
d) Both b & c
BG 4.2
3. Why Krishna chose Arjuna for delivering the science of BG?
a) Because Arjuna was a devotee of the Lord
b) Because Arjuna was Krishna’s friend
c) He can understand the transcendental knowledge as told by Krishna
d) All of the above
BG 4.3
4. Why Arjuna inquires about the fact that, Krishna instructed the knowledge of BG to Vivasvan who is senior in birth to Krishna?
a) Because Arjuna was doubtful of believing Krishna’s words
b) Because Arjuna asked this for demoniac people who don’t accept Krishna to be the Supreme Personality of Godhead
c) Because Arjuna was himself not aware of the fact that Krishna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead
d) All of the above
BG 4.4
5. What answer Krishna gives in reply for Arjuna’s question stated above in ques. 4?
a) Krishna is unborn
b) Krishna’s body never deteriorates
c) Krishna appears in every millennium in His original transcendental form
d) All of the above
BG 4.6
6. Why and when the Lord appears in this world?
a) Whenever there is predominance of irreligiosity and disappearance of true religion
b) To deliver the pious and annihilate the miscreants
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 4.7 & 4.8
7. How does one attain Lord’s eternal abode after leaving this body?
a) Being charitable
b) By understanding the transcendental nature of the body and activities of the Lord
c) By relieving oneself from the bondage of material hankerings
d) By performing yogic process
BG 4.9
8. How Krishna reciprocates with His devotees in the transcendental world?
a) He reciprocates according to the devotee’s desire
b) He reciprocates according to the devotee’s fearlessness
c) He reciprocates according to the devotee’s perfection
d) None of these
BG 4.11
9. Who is the creator of the four divisions of the social order?
a) Manu
b) Brahma
c) Krishna
d) None of these
BG 4.13
10. Why Krishna asks Arjuna to act in Krishna consciousness following in the footsteps of past liberated souls?
a) Then Arjuna will attain liberation
b) Then Arjuna would perfect his life
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 4.15
1. Why one has to
learn about action, forbidden action and inaction?
a) Because its transcendental
b) To get liberated from material bondage
c) So that one is not bewildered
d) None of these
BG 4.17
2. Who sees inaction in action and action in inaction?
a) One who is Krishna conscious
b) One is a mystic yogi
c) One who ceases fruitive activities
d) All of the above
BG 4.18
3. Why a Krishna conscious person is steady both in success and failure?
a) Because he acts for the satisfaction of Krishna
b) Because he has no desire for personal sense gratification
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 4.22
4. How many different varieties of sacrifice are placed in the primary division
a) Two
b) Three
c) Five
d) Eleven
BG 4.25
5. What are the four divisions of human life meant for?
a) To become charitable
b) To become perfect transcendentalists
c) To restrict work
d) None of these
BG 4.26
6. Who among the following Sacrifices the senses in the fire of the controlled mind?
a) Brahmachari in Krishna consciousness
b) Impersonalist brahmachari
c) A person engrossed in sense gratification
d) All of these
BG 4.26
7. What is the soul called as in the Patanjali system of yoga?
a) Pratyag-atma
b) Parag-atma
c) Pratyag-atma & parag-atma
d) None of these
BG 4.27
8. What is the common aim of these different types of sacrifices like sacrifice of one’s possessions, study of Vedas and the performance of yoga system?
a) To live a peaceful life
b) To control the senses
c) To be cleansed of sinful reactions
d) Both b & c
BG 4.30
a) Because its transcendental
b) To get liberated from material bondage
c) So that one is not bewildered
d) None of these
BG 4.17
2. Who sees inaction in action and action in inaction?
a) One who is Krishna conscious
b) One is a mystic yogi
c) One who ceases fruitive activities
d) All of the above
BG 4.18
3. Why a Krishna conscious person is steady both in success and failure?
a) Because he acts for the satisfaction of Krishna
b) Because he has no desire for personal sense gratification
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 4.22
4. How many different varieties of sacrifice are placed in the primary division
a) Two
b) Three
c) Five
d) Eleven
BG 4.25
5. What are the four divisions of human life meant for?
a) To become charitable
b) To become perfect transcendentalists
c) To restrict work
d) None of these
BG 4.26
6. Who among the following Sacrifices the senses in the fire of the controlled mind?
a) Brahmachari in Krishna consciousness
b) Impersonalist brahmachari
c) A person engrossed in sense gratification
d) All of these
BG 4.26
7. What is the soul called as in the Patanjali system of yoga?
a) Pratyag-atma
b) Parag-atma
c) Pratyag-atma & parag-atma
d) None of these
BG 4.27
8. What is the common aim of these different types of sacrifices like sacrifice of one’s possessions, study of Vedas and the performance of yoga system?
a) To live a peaceful life
b) To control the senses
c) To be cleansed of sinful reactions
d) Both b & c
BG 4.30
1. Without
___________ one can never live happily on this planet.
a) Grades
b) Sacrifices
c) Marriage
d) Consciousness
BG 4.31
2. When do sacrifices bestow spiritual benefit?
a) When sacrifices are elevated to the level of transcendental knowledge
b) When they turn up to the level of fruitive activities
c) When material possessions are sacrificed
d) None of these
BG 4.33
3. Why the Lord asks to approach a spiritual master in the line of disciplic succession?
a) Because spiritual realization is difficult to understand and hence person in disciplic succession helps
b) Because a person in disciplic succession can convey the message of the Lord as it is
c) Because a person in disciplic succession has seen the truth
d) All of these
BG 4.34
4. What is the perfect knowledge referred to as which burns all reactions to material activities?
a) Perfect knowledge of self
b) Perfect knowledge of Supersoul
c) Perfect knowledge of self and Supersoul and their relationship
d) All of these
BG 4.37
5. What is the yoga system instructed by Krishna in this chapter is called as?
a) Ashtanga-yoga
b) Hatha-yoga
c) Sanatana-yoga
d) Budhhi-yoga
BG 4.42
a) Grades
b) Sacrifices
c) Marriage
d) Consciousness
BG 4.31
2. When do sacrifices bestow spiritual benefit?
a) When sacrifices are elevated to the level of transcendental knowledge
b) When they turn up to the level of fruitive activities
c) When material possessions are sacrificed
d) None of these
BG 4.33
3. Why the Lord asks to approach a spiritual master in the line of disciplic succession?
a) Because spiritual realization is difficult to understand and hence person in disciplic succession helps
b) Because a person in disciplic succession can convey the message of the Lord as it is
c) Because a person in disciplic succession has seen the truth
d) All of these
BG 4.34
4. What is the perfect knowledge referred to as which burns all reactions to material activities?
a) Perfect knowledge of self
b) Perfect knowledge of Supersoul
c) Perfect knowledge of self and Supersoul and their relationship
d) All of these
BG 4.37
5. What is the yoga system instructed by Krishna in this chapter is called as?
a) Ashtanga-yoga
b) Hatha-yoga
c) Sanatana-yoga
d) Budhhi-yoga
BG 4.42
1. Which of the
following two is better?
a) Renunciation of work
b) Work in devotion
c) Both a & b
d) None of the above
a) Renunciation of work
b) Work in devotion
c) Both a & b
d) None of the above
Bhagavad Gita CHAPTER 05
Karma-Yoga
BG 5.2
2. The soul of the material world is ___________________.
a) Vishnu
b) Supersoul
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 5.4
3. Are the ultimate aim of sankhya-yoga and karma-yoga the same?
a) Yes
b) No
BG 5.4
4. A man of controlled senses cannot be _______________ to anyone.
a) Separated
b) Satisfied
c) Offensive
d) Formal
BG 5.7
5. What reason would you give for Arjuna being not offensive in the battlefield, as he killed so many soldiers from the kauravas side?
a) He was following the orders of Krishna in full krishna consciousness
b) No one was killed in the battlefield as the soul cannot be slain
c) He was only superficially offensive in the battlefield
d) All of the above
BG 5.7
6. Why a Krishna conscious person is not affected by sinful action?
a) He performs his duty without attachment
b) He surrenders the results unto the Lord
c) He engages himself in the service of the Lord
d) All of the above
BG 5.10
7. What is called as the city of nine gates?
a) Material body
b) Embodied soul
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 5.13
8. ________________ is a subtle form of conditioning for the living entity.
a) Beauty
b) Desire
c) Influence
d) Bewilderment
BG 5.15
1. What is the effect of receiving the real knowledge?
a) Nescience is destroyed
b) Everything is revealed by the real knowledge
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 5.16
2. Which among the following are similar characteristics of the soul and Supersoul?
a) Conscious
b) Eternal
c) Blissful
d) All of these
BG 5.18
3. Why do a learned transcendentalist or a Krishna conscious person sees everyone with equal vision?
a) Because they are very learned
b) Because they see Paramatma being present in everyone’s heart
c) Because they like everyone
d) None of these
BG 5.18
4. Whom among the following persons neither rejoices after achieving something nor laments after losing something related to this body?
a) A person who is very charitable
b) A person who is attracted to yoga
c) A person who has mystic powers
d) A self-realized person
BG 5.20
5. What should a transcendentalist tolerate before quitting the material body?
a) Desire
b) Anger
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 5.23
6. Ashtanga-yoga is divisible into _________________ procedure.
a) Eightfold
b) Fivefold
c) Threefold
d) Eleven fold
BG 5.28
7. Why closing of the eyes altogether not advised in the yogic process?
a) Because it creates a dark atmosphere around the person
b) Because it creates fear in the person
c) Because there is every chance for the person to sleep
d) Because the senses cannot be controlled
BG 5.28
8. What Krishna says about attaining peace from the pangs of material nature?
a) He is the ultimate purpose of all sacrifices
b) He is the proprietor of all planets and demigods
c) Everything should be offered to His transcendental service
d) All of the above
BG 5.29
Bhagavad Gita CHAPTER 06
Dhyana-Yoga
1. The mystic yogi
who practices the yoga system _____________________________.
a) Is very pure by nature
b) Is renounced
c) Is a perfect yogi
d) Is desiring some self satisfaction
BG 6.1
2. When does a yogi cease all disturbing mental activities?
a) When he is healthy
b) When he is self centered
c) When he is done in the practice of meditation
d) None of the above
BG 6.3
3. Which of the following are important in yoga system?
a) Body & mind
b) Mind & conditioned soul
c) Conditioned soul
d) None of the above
BG 6.5
4. Which one of the following are both the friend and enemy of oneself?
a) Body
b) Mind
c) Soul
d) All of these
BG 6.6
5. What is the effect of controlling the mind?
a) One follows the dictation of the Supersoul
b) One is unaffected by the dualities of material existence
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 6.7
6. What are the qualities of a transcendentalist?
a) He should concentrate the mind on the Supreme self
b) He should control his mind
c) He should be free from desires and feelings of possessiveness
d) All of these
BG 6.10
7. Which of the following is required for yoga practice?
a) Secluded place
b) Grass on the ground covered with deer skin and soft cloth
c) Mind and senses are controlled and fixing the mind on one point
d) All of these
BG 6.11 & 6.12
8. Which of the following yoga system admits householder brahmacaris?
a) Bhakti yoga
b) Dhyana yoga
c) Jnana yoga
d) All of these
BG 6.13 & 6.14
9. What makes a conditioned soul fearful?
a) His perverted memory
b) His forgetfulness of his eternal relationship with Krishna
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 6.14
10. What is the ultimate goal in practicing yoga according to Bhagavad-Gita?
a) To attain any kind of material facility
b) To attain to the kingdom of God
c) To improve one’s health
d) To aspire after material perfection
BG 6.15
a) Is very pure by nature
b) Is renounced
c) Is a perfect yogi
d) Is desiring some self satisfaction
BG 6.1
2. When does a yogi cease all disturbing mental activities?
a) When he is healthy
b) When he is self centered
c) When he is done in the practice of meditation
d) None of the above
BG 6.3
3. Which of the following are important in yoga system?
a) Body & mind
b) Mind & conditioned soul
c) Conditioned soul
d) None of the above
BG 6.5
4. Which one of the following are both the friend and enemy of oneself?
a) Body
b) Mind
c) Soul
d) All of these
BG 6.6
5. What is the effect of controlling the mind?
a) One follows the dictation of the Supersoul
b) One is unaffected by the dualities of material existence
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 6.7
6. What are the qualities of a transcendentalist?
a) He should concentrate the mind on the Supreme self
b) He should control his mind
c) He should be free from desires and feelings of possessiveness
d) All of these
BG 6.10
7. Which of the following is required for yoga practice?
a) Secluded place
b) Grass on the ground covered with deer skin and soft cloth
c) Mind and senses are controlled and fixing the mind on one point
d) All of these
BG 6.11 & 6.12
8. Which of the following yoga system admits householder brahmacaris?
a) Bhakti yoga
b) Dhyana yoga
c) Jnana yoga
d) All of these
BG 6.13 & 6.14
9. What makes a conditioned soul fearful?
a) His perverted memory
b) His forgetfulness of his eternal relationship with Krishna
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 6.14
10. What is the ultimate goal in practicing yoga according to Bhagavad-Gita?
a) To attain any kind of material facility
b) To attain to the kingdom of God
c) To improve one’s health
d) To aspire after material perfection
BG 6.15
1. Who can perform
yoga among the following?
a) One who eats and sleeps too much
b) One who eats or sleeps too little
c) Both of these
d) None of these
BG 6.16
2. There is no material misery for a Krishna conscious person as he is regulated in ___________________.
a) His work & speech
b) His sleep & wakefulness
c) His bodily activities
d) All of the above
BG 6.17
3. What is the primary characteristic of yoga principle?
a) By practice of yoga one becomes sensual
b) By practice of yoga one becomes gradually detached from material concepts
c) By practice of yoga one becomes religious
d) None of these
BG 6.21
4. One should engage oneself in the practice of yoga with ___________________.
a) Undeviating determination & faith
b) Abandon all material desires & control all senses
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 6.24
5. What is required to remain in the quality of Brahman?
a) Fix one’s mind on the lotus feet of the Lord
b) Consciousness
c) Engagement in yoga
d) Identification with the absolute
BG 6.27
6. Who sees the Lord everywhere?
a) Person in Krishna consciousness
b) Everyone
c) Demigods
d) None of the above
BG 6.29
1. What is the cause of distress of a living being?
a) Conditioning by the modes of material nature
b) Forgetfulness of his relationship with the Lord
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 6.32
2. What reason do Arjuna gives for not practicing the yoga system described by Krishna?
a) Yoga system being a long process to carry on
b) The mind being restless and unsteady for performing yoga system
c) Yoga system not applicable for the kshatriya class of men
d) None of the above
BG 6.34
3. How in this age of kali can one curb the restless mind?
a) Impersonal spiritual detachment
b) By practice of Krishna consciousness
c) Engaging in nine types of devotional service to the Lord
d) Both b & c
BG 6.35
4. What happens to a person who in the path of self realization desists due to worldly mindedness and doesn’t attain perfection?
a) He meets destruction in material world
b) He meets destruction in the spiritual world
c) He would continue from where he left in his previous life
d) All of these
BG 6.37, 6.40 & 6.41
5. Why the birth in a family of yogis or transcendentalists appreciated?
a) Because such a birth is rare
b) Because one receives spiritual impetus in that family
c) Because such families are very learned and devoted spiritually
d) All of these
BG 6.42
6. Fruitive work without Krishna consciousness is _____________________.
a) Waste of time
b) Different
c) Particular
d) Spiritually predominant
BG 6.46
7. Which of the following is the highest stage of yoga and all other yogas being progressions towards that?
a) Karma-yoga
b) Jnana-yoga
c) Astanga-yoga
d) Bhakti-yoga
BG 6.47
a) One who eats and sleeps too much
b) One who eats or sleeps too little
c) Both of these
d) None of these
BG 6.16
2. There is no material misery for a Krishna conscious person as he is regulated in ___________________.
a) His work & speech
b) His sleep & wakefulness
c) His bodily activities
d) All of the above
BG 6.17
3. What is the primary characteristic of yoga principle?
a) By practice of yoga one becomes sensual
b) By practice of yoga one becomes gradually detached from material concepts
c) By practice of yoga one becomes religious
d) None of these
BG 6.21
4. One should engage oneself in the practice of yoga with ___________________.
a) Undeviating determination & faith
b) Abandon all material desires & control all senses
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 6.24
5. What is required to remain in the quality of Brahman?
a) Fix one’s mind on the lotus feet of the Lord
b) Consciousness
c) Engagement in yoga
d) Identification with the absolute
BG 6.27
6. Who sees the Lord everywhere?
a) Person in Krishna consciousness
b) Everyone
c) Demigods
d) None of the above
BG 6.29
1. What is the cause of distress of a living being?
a) Conditioning by the modes of material nature
b) Forgetfulness of his relationship with the Lord
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 6.32
2. What reason do Arjuna gives for not practicing the yoga system described by Krishna?
a) Yoga system being a long process to carry on
b) The mind being restless and unsteady for performing yoga system
c) Yoga system not applicable for the kshatriya class of men
d) None of the above
BG 6.34
3. How in this age of kali can one curb the restless mind?
a) Impersonal spiritual detachment
b) By practice of Krishna consciousness
c) Engaging in nine types of devotional service to the Lord
d) Both b & c
BG 6.35
4. What happens to a person who in the path of self realization desists due to worldly mindedness and doesn’t attain perfection?
a) He meets destruction in material world
b) He meets destruction in the spiritual world
c) He would continue from where he left in his previous life
d) All of these
BG 6.37, 6.40 & 6.41
5. Why the birth in a family of yogis or transcendentalists appreciated?
a) Because such a birth is rare
b) Because one receives spiritual impetus in that family
c) Because such families are very learned and devoted spiritually
d) All of these
BG 6.42
6. Fruitive work without Krishna consciousness is _____________________.
a) Waste of time
b) Different
c) Particular
d) Spiritually predominant
BG 6.46
7. Which of the following is the highest stage of yoga and all other yogas being progressions towards that?
a) Karma-yoga
b) Jnana-yoga
c) Astanga-yoga
d) Bhakti-yoga
BG 6.47
Bhagavad Gita CHAPTER 07
Knowledge of the Absolute
1. Why a paramatma realized yogi can’t know Krishna as He is?
a) Because he doesn’t practice devotional service to the Lord
b) Because he is not a pure devotee of the Lord
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 7.3
2. Which of the following are the separated material energies of Krishna?
a) Earth, water, fire, air & ether
b) Mind, intelligence & false ego
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 7.4
3. ___________________ exploits the inferior energies for different purposes.
a) Cosmic manifestation
b) Living entity
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 7.5
4. __________________ is not created at a certain stage of material development.
a) Spirit
b) Matter
c) Forgetfulness
d) Liberation
BG 7.6
5. In which of the verse of BG chapter 7th is it stressed that the Absolute Truth is a person?
a) 7.14
b) 7.5
c) 7.11
d) 7.7
BG 7.7
6. Omkara is the sound representation of _________________.
a) Liberation
b) Krishna
c) Knowledge
d) Consciousness
BG 7.8
7. Parabrahman is __________________.
a) Impersonal
b) Intelligence
c) Personal
d) Maintained
BG 7.10
8. Is Krishna subjected to any of the three modes of material nature
a) No
b) Yes
BG 7.12
9. What is the means to get free from the clutches of the stringent material nature?
a) By surrendering unto Krishna
b) By surrendering unto Shiva
c) By surrendering unto Brahma
d) All of these
BG 7.14
10. Why the atheistic planmaker is called “duskrtina”?
a) Because everyone in the society is troubled form him
b) Because he is unauthorized materially
c) Because his intelligence and efforts are utilised in opposing the plan of the Supreme Lord
d) None of these
BG 7.15
11. How many kinds of “duskrtina” are there?
a) Five
b) Four
c) Twenty-four
d) Thirty-two
BG 7.15
12. Which of the following class of men never surrender unto the lotus feet of the Supreme Lord?
a) Grossly foolish persons & the lowest of mankind
b) Deluded speculators
c) Professed atheists
d) All of the above
BG 7.15
1.
How many kinds of men come to Krishna for devotional service?
a) Two
b) Fifty
c) Four
d) Twelve
BG 7.16
2. Those who are _______________________ are one of those men who aspire for devotional service unto Krishna.
a) In need of money
b) Envious of Krishna
c) Unknowable persons
d) None of these
BG 7.16
3. Why a devotee in full knowledge is very dear to Krishna?
a) Because he benefits the society
b) Because his only purpose is to serve the Supreme Lord with love and devotion
c) Because they he is very pure
d) Because he is self realized
BG 7.18
4. Why do some people worship demigods?
a) To get immediate fulfillment of their material desires
b) Because of their own nature they take up demigod worship
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 7.20
5. __________________ are dependent on the Supreme will of Krishna.
a) Living entities
b) Demigods
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 7.21
6. What makes one to devote himself to some particular demigod?
a) One’s affinity to the demigod
b) One’s inspiration to the demigod
c) One’s behavior to the demigod
d) Supersoul present in the living entity’s heart
BG 7.21
a) Two
b) Fifty
c) Four
d) Twelve
BG 7.16
2. Those who are _______________________ are one of those men who aspire for devotional service unto Krishna.
a) In need of money
b) Envious of Krishna
c) Unknowable persons
d) None of these
BG 7.16
3. Why a devotee in full knowledge is very dear to Krishna?
a) Because he benefits the society
b) Because his only purpose is to serve the Supreme Lord with love and devotion
c) Because they he is very pure
d) Because he is self realized
BG 7.18
4. Why do some people worship demigods?
a) To get immediate fulfillment of their material desires
b) Because of their own nature they take up demigod worship
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 7.20
5. __________________ are dependent on the Supreme will of Krishna.
a) Living entities
b) Demigods
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 7.21
6. What makes one to devote himself to some particular demigod?
a) One’s affinity to the demigod
b) One’s inspiration to the demigod
c) One’s behavior to the demigod
d) Supersoul present in the living entity’s heart
BG 7.21
7. Do both the demigod worshippers and devotee of the supreme Lord reach the same Supreme abode?
a) Yes
b) No
BG 7.23
BG 7.24:
1. One can understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead or his form by:
a. Mental Speculation
b. Discussing Vedic Literature
c. Devotional Service
2. The Supreme Personality is:
a. Formless
b. Impersonal
c. Person with unlimited auspicious Qualities
BG 7.25
1. Krishna-The supreme Personality of Godhead manifest to :
a. Scholarly people who are experts in vedic scriptures.
b. Only devotees who are engaged in devotional service
c. People who believe – God is formless
2. The non-devotees/ordinary people cannot see Bhagavan because:
a. He is covered by the curtain of ‘Yoga-maya.’
b. Bhagavan in his transcendental form of bliss and Knowledge, is covered by the internal potency of Brahma jyoti
c. Both above
3. The Internal Potency of Supreme Personality of God head is
a. Yoga Maya,
b. Brahmajyoti
c. Both above
4. The sloka :
hiranmayena patrena
satyasyapihitam mukham
tat tvam pusam apavrnu
satya-dharmaya drstaye
is from
a. Bhagavat Geeta
b. Isopanishad
c. Upadeshamrta
d. Brahma Samhita
BG 7.26
Who can know about his past, present and future:
a. one who is liberated from all material contaminations
b. who practice yoga.
c. One who is perfected by realization of impersonal Brahman
BG 7.27
People who:
a. Practice the regulative principles
b. Who act piously.
c. Who has conquered the sinful reactions of material nature.
Which of the above are in spiritual platform:
1. a
2. a & b
3. a & c
4. a, b & c
BG 7.29
Who are entitled to be called ‘Brahman’?
a. who are worshipers of demigods
b. Brahman Realized persons
c. Person’s who perform activities in Krishna Conciousness
Bhagavad Gita CHAPTER 08
Attaining the Supreme
1. Why Arjuna
addresses Krishna as “Purushottama” in BG 8.1?
a) Because it is offensive to call Krishna by any other casual name
b) Because a chariot driver has to be addressed like that
c) Because Arjuna knew that Krishna is the supreme authority able to give definitive answers to his questions
d) All of the above
BG 8.1
2. Brahman refers to the ____________________.
a) Living entity
b) Supreme Personality of Godhead
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 8.3
3. What is the physical nature called as?
a) Adhidaivata
b) Adhibhuta
c) Anadi
d) Adhiyajna
BG 8.4
4. Quitting one’s body at the time of death in Krishna consciousness, __________________.
a) Transfers one to the transcendental abode of Krishna
b) Relieves one of all relations
c) Takes one far away from this world
d) None of these
BG 8.5
5. What effects one at the moment of death?
a) Thoughts of one’s life
b) Actions of one’s life
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 8.6
6. What instruction Krishna gives to Arjuna for fixing his mind on Him?
a) Always think of Krishna
b) Carry out the prescribed duty of fighting dedicating to Krishna
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 8.7
7. Can we comprehend this material world?
a) Yes
b) No
BG 8.9
a) Because it is offensive to call Krishna by any other casual name
b) Because a chariot driver has to be addressed like that
c) Because Arjuna knew that Krishna is the supreme authority able to give definitive answers to his questions
d) All of the above
BG 8.1
2. Brahman refers to the ____________________.
a) Living entity
b) Supreme Personality of Godhead
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 8.3
3. What is the physical nature called as?
a) Adhidaivata
b) Adhibhuta
c) Anadi
d) Adhiyajna
BG 8.4
4. Quitting one’s body at the time of death in Krishna consciousness, __________________.
a) Transfers one to the transcendental abode of Krishna
b) Relieves one of all relations
c) Takes one far away from this world
d) None of these
BG 8.5
5. What effects one at the moment of death?
a) Thoughts of one’s life
b) Actions of one’s life
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 8.6
6. What instruction Krishna gives to Arjuna for fixing his mind on Him?
a) Always think of Krishna
b) Carry out the prescribed duty of fighting dedicating to Krishna
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 8.7
7. Can we comprehend this material world?
a) Yes
b) No
BG 8.9
1. For
________________, the syllable om is identical with Brahman.
a) Celibates
b) Renounced persons
c) Impersonalists
d) None of the above
BG 8.11
2. What one has to do first, to practice the yoga system?
a) Detach from all sensual engagements
b) Fix the life air at the top of the head
c) Leave one’s body by meditating on the Supersoul
d) All of the above
BG 8.12
3. The personalists after quitting this body enter __________________.
a) Goloka Vrindavan
b) Vaikunthas
c) Brahmajyoti
d) Both a & b
BG 8.13
4. Bhakti-yogi is engaged in how many different ways?
a) Two
b) Five
c) Sixteen
d) Twenty-two
BG 8.14
5. How Krishna describes this material world as to Arjuna?
a) Temporary world
b) Full of miseries
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 8.15
6. What is common between the highest material planets down to the lowest?
a) Austerity
b) Repeated birth and death
c) Elevation
d) Eternal advancement
BG 8.16
7. Which is the highest planet in the material universe?
a) Indraloka
b) Chandraloka
c) Maharloka
d) Brahmaloka
BG 8.17
8. What comprises one day of Brahma according to human calculation?
a) The four yugas rotating million times earth years
b) The four yugas rotating billion times earth years
c) The four yugas rotating hundred times earth years
d) The four yugas rotating thousand times earth years
BG 8.17
9. At what time of Brahma’s life are living entities annihilated?
a) When Brahma’s day is manifest
b) At the arrival of Brahma’s night
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 8.18
10. What happens to the living entities when Brahma’s life is finally finished?
a) They are all annihilated
b) They remain unmanifest for millions of years
c) They are manifested again when Brahma is born again in another millennium
d) All of the above
a) Celibates
b) Renounced persons
c) Impersonalists
d) None of the above
BG 8.11
2. What one has to do first, to practice the yoga system?
a) Detach from all sensual engagements
b) Fix the life air at the top of the head
c) Leave one’s body by meditating on the Supersoul
d) All of the above
BG 8.12
3. The personalists after quitting this body enter __________________.
a) Goloka Vrindavan
b) Vaikunthas
c) Brahmajyoti
d) Both a & b
BG 8.13
4. Bhakti-yogi is engaged in how many different ways?
a) Two
b) Five
c) Sixteen
d) Twenty-two
BG 8.14
5. How Krishna describes this material world as to Arjuna?
a) Temporary world
b) Full of miseries
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 8.15
6. What is common between the highest material planets down to the lowest?
a) Austerity
b) Repeated birth and death
c) Elevation
d) Eternal advancement
BG 8.16
7. Which is the highest planet in the material universe?
a) Indraloka
b) Chandraloka
c) Maharloka
d) Brahmaloka
BG 8.17
8. What comprises one day of Brahma according to human calculation?
a) The four yugas rotating million times earth years
b) The four yugas rotating billion times earth years
c) The four yugas rotating hundred times earth years
d) The four yugas rotating thousand times earth years
BG 8.17
9. At what time of Brahma’s life are living entities annihilated?
a) When Brahma’s day is manifest
b) At the arrival of Brahma’s night
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 8.18
10. What happens to the living entities when Brahma’s life is finally finished?
a) They are all annihilated
b) They remain unmanifest for millions of years
c) They are manifested again when Brahma is born again in another millennium
d) All of the above
BG 8.19
1. Krishna’s supreme abode and Krishna Himself are _________________________.
a) Descended
b) Replica of each other
c) Nondifferent
d) Unattainable
BG 8.21
2. Which of the following are the presiding deities who make arrangements for the passage of the soul?
a) Fire
b) Light
c) Day and moon
d) All of these
BG 8.24
3. For who is there no fear of returning, whether he leaves the body at an auspicious or inauspicious moment, by accident or arrangement?
a) Yogi
b) Pure devotee
c) Mystic yogi
d) All of the above
BG 8.24
4. The mystic who reaches the moon, does he come back?
a) Yes
b) No
BG 8.25
5. A person who accepts the path of devotional service is not bereft of the results derived from _______________________.
a) Studying the Vedas & performing austere sacrifices
b) Giving charity
c) Pursuing philosophical and fruitive activities
d) All of these
BG 8.28
1. Krishna’s supreme abode and Krishna Himself are _________________________.
a) Descended
b) Replica of each other
c) Nondifferent
d) Unattainable
BG 8.21
2. Which of the following are the presiding deities who make arrangements for the passage of the soul?
a) Fire
b) Light
c) Day and moon
d) All of these
BG 8.24
3. For who is there no fear of returning, whether he leaves the body at an auspicious or inauspicious moment, by accident or arrangement?
a) Yogi
b) Pure devotee
c) Mystic yogi
d) All of the above
BG 8.24
4. The mystic who reaches the moon, does he come back?
a) Yes
b) No
BG 8.25
5. A person who accepts the path of devotional service is not bereft of the results derived from _______________________.
a) Studying the Vedas & performing austere sacrifices
b) Giving charity
c) Pursuing philosophical and fruitive activities
d) All of these
BG 8.28
Bhagavad Gita CHAPTER 09
The Most Confidential Knowledge
The Most Confidential Knowledge
1. Why the message of
the Supreme Personality of Godhead cannot be realized by mental speculators or
academic scholars?
a) Because they are not the right persons to approach the Lord
b) Because they are in miserable life conditions
c) Because the message is a realized knowledge, full of potencies of the Lord and difficult for them to understand
d) None of these
BG 9.1
2. Why the ninth chapter of BG is called the most confidential?
a) Because it deals with liberation
b) Because it deals with unalloyed, pure devotion
c) Because it brings enlightenment in Krishna consciousness
d) Because it gives spiritual knowledge
BG 9.1
3. Who is the author of Vedanta-sutra?
a) Kapila
b) Yajnavalkya
c) Shandilya
d) Vyasadeva
BG 9.2
4. Does the soul become inactive after leaving the body?
a) Yes
b) No
BG 9.2
a) Because they are not the right persons to approach the Lord
b) Because they are in miserable life conditions
c) Because the message is a realized knowledge, full of potencies of the Lord and difficult for them to understand
d) None of these
BG 9.1
2. Why the ninth chapter of BG is called the most confidential?
a) Because it deals with liberation
b) Because it deals with unalloyed, pure devotion
c) Because it brings enlightenment in Krishna consciousness
d) Because it gives spiritual knowledge
BG 9.1
3. Who is the author of Vedanta-sutra?
a) Kapila
b) Yajnavalkya
c) Shandilya
d) Vyasadeva
BG 9.2
4. Does the soul become inactive after leaving the body?
a) Yes
b) No
BG 9.2
5. What is the highest perfection of religion?
a) Attainment of the stage of devotional service
b) Liberation
c) Becoming one with the God
d) All of these
BG 9.2
6. What makes the process of devotional service a happy one?
a) Simply hearing & chanting the glories of the Lord
b) Accepting the remnants of the food offered to the Lord
c) Devotional service can be practiced even in most poverty-stricken condition
d) All of the above
BG 9.2
7. What is meant by saying that devotional service eternally exists?
a) Devotional service continues even after liberation
b) Even after going to the spiritual planet one is engaged in the devotional service of the Lord
c) Both b & c
d) None of these
BG 9.2
8. Who cannot accomplish the process of devotional service?
a) Impersonalists
b) Great scholars
c) Faithless persons
d) None of these
BG 9.3
9. What are second-class men in Krishna conscious like?
a) They are not very advanced in devotional scriptures
b) They have firm faith that service to Krishna is the best
c) In good faith they taken up the process of devotional service
d) All of the above
BG 9.3
10. The Supreme Personality of Godhead is not perceivable through ____________________.
a) The gross material senses
b) Creation
c) His energies
d) His existence
BG 9.4
1. What is described
as the inconceivable potency of the Lord?
a) All His creation
b) His love
c) That although everything is resting on Him, still He is aloof
d) None of these
BG 9.5
2. _______________ is the biggest manifestation we can conceive.
a) Space
b) Sky
c) Atoms
d) All of these
BG 9.6
3. What happens to the material manifestation during creation and annihilation?
a) Every entity is created newly each time & then destroyed
b) All are created but only the true one survives during annihilation
c) Cosmic manifestation is created but hided during annihilation
d) At the end, every living entity enters into the Lord’s nature & at the beginning again the Lord creates
BG 9.7
a) All His creation
b) His love
c) That although everything is resting on Him, still He is aloof
d) None of these
BG 9.5
2. _______________ is the biggest manifestation we can conceive.
a) Space
b) Sky
c) Atoms
d) All of these
BG 9.6
3. What happens to the material manifestation during creation and annihilation?
a) Every entity is created newly each time & then destroyed
b) All are created but only the true one survives during annihilation
c) Cosmic manifestation is created but hided during annihilation
d) At the end, every living entity enters into the Lord’s nature & at the beginning again the Lord creates
BG 9.7
4. Which of the following incarnation of Krishna enters into everything minutely?
a) Garbhodakasayi Visnu
b) Karanodakasayi Visnu
c) Ksirodakasayi Visnu
d) None of these
BG 9.8
5. When the activity of the different species of living entities begins after creation?
a) After they grow little older
b) From the very moment of the creation
c) When they adjust to the surrounding atmosphere
d) None of these
BG 9.8
6. Why are the different species of life created immediately along with universe?
a) To fulfill the desires of the living entities which they had at the last annihilation
b) To fill the voids in the universe
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 9.8
7. Is the Lord attached to the creation and annihilation of this world?
a) No
b) Yes
BG 9.9
8. The material nature, without the superintendence of _____________________ cannot do anything.
a) Its qualities
b) Heavenly God
c) Supreme Personality of Godhead
d) All of these
BG 9.10
1. When Krishna
descends in the human form, & acts just like a normal man, even then, what
is His body described as?
a) Eternal
b) Blissful
c) Full of knowledge
d) All of these
BG 9.11
2. Why the persons who consider the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krishna as an ordinary man are deluded?
a) Because they are developed
b) Because they are infected
c) Because they cannot understand the eternal form of Krishna
d) None of these
BG 9.12
3. How can one be not under the control of material nature?
a) By understanding the material nature
b) By surrendering his soul to the Supreme Personality of Godhead
c) By diverting his attention towards material nature
d) By meditation
BG 9.13
4. What are the qualities of great souls described as by Krishna to Arjuna?
a) They are under the protection of divine nature
b) They are fully engaged in devotional service
c) They know Krishna as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, original and inexhaustible
d) All of these
BG 9.13
5. Why a “Mahatma” is attached to the Supreme Personality of Godhead?
a) He glorifies the Lord’s holy name, pastimes, eternal form and transcendental qualities
b) He undergoes severe penance and austerity
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 9.14
6. How a mahatma does achieve success in having association with the Lord in any of the five rasas?
a) By performing severe austerities
b) By having determination
c) By engaging his mind, body and speech, everything in the service of the Supreme Lord
d) All of these
BG 9.14
7. A “Mahatma” can be ________________.
a) Brahmacari
b) Householder
c) Sannyasi
d) Any of these
BG 9.14
8. Which of the following comes under the lower class of God worship?
a) He who worships himself as one with the Supreme Lord
b) He who concocts some form of the Supreme Lord and worships
c) He who accepts the universal form
d) All of these
BG 9.15
9. Knowing the Vedas is but a progressive step towards understanding _________________.
a) Vedas
b) Krishna
c) Marginal energy
d) Creation
BG 9.17
10. The progressive path of the persons not knowing Krishna is ________________.
a) Partial
b) Hallucinatory
c) Either a or b
d) Neither of these
BG 9.18
a) Eternal
b) Blissful
c) Full of knowledge
d) All of these
BG 9.11
2. Why the persons who consider the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krishna as an ordinary man are deluded?
a) Because they are developed
b) Because they are infected
c) Because they cannot understand the eternal form of Krishna
d) None of these
BG 9.12
3. How can one be not under the control of material nature?
a) By understanding the material nature
b) By surrendering his soul to the Supreme Personality of Godhead
c) By diverting his attention towards material nature
d) By meditation
BG 9.13
4. What are the qualities of great souls described as by Krishna to Arjuna?
a) They are under the protection of divine nature
b) They are fully engaged in devotional service
c) They know Krishna as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, original and inexhaustible
d) All of these
BG 9.13
5. Why a “Mahatma” is attached to the Supreme Personality of Godhead?
a) He glorifies the Lord’s holy name, pastimes, eternal form and transcendental qualities
b) He undergoes severe penance and austerity
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 9.14
6. How a mahatma does achieve success in having association with the Lord in any of the five rasas?
a) By performing severe austerities
b) By having determination
c) By engaging his mind, body and speech, everything in the service of the Supreme Lord
d) All of these
BG 9.14
7. A “Mahatma” can be ________________.
a) Brahmacari
b) Householder
c) Sannyasi
d) Any of these
BG 9.14
8. Which of the following comes under the lower class of God worship?
a) He who worships himself as one with the Supreme Lord
b) He who concocts some form of the Supreme Lord and worships
c) He who accepts the universal form
d) All of these
BG 9.15
9. Knowing the Vedas is but a progressive step towards understanding _________________.
a) Vedas
b) Krishna
c) Marginal energy
d) Creation
BG 9.17
10. The progressive path of the persons not knowing Krishna is ________________.
a) Partial
b) Hallucinatory
c) Either a or b
d) Neither of these
BG 9.18
1. The energy which
sustains us by prolonging the duration of our life is _______________.
a) Material
b) Krishna
c) Advanced
d) Falling
BG 9.19
2. What kind of happiness does a person achieve in the higher planetary systems?
a) Ecstatic
b) Sense pleasure
c) Flickering
d) Both b & c
BG 9.21
3. What is the promise made by Krishna to the persons who serves Him with devotion & surrenders fully unto Him?
a) Krishna carries what they lack
b) Krishna preserves what they have
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 9.22
4. Demigod worship is a/an _______________ way of worshiping Krishna.
a) Indirect
b) Same
c) Approved
d) Satisfying
BG 9.23
5. Is “black arts” or “black magic” spiritualism?
a) Yes
b) No
BG 9.24
6. Persons worshiping demigods, ghosts, ancestors or Krishna achieve __________________ abode.
a) The same
b) That respective
c) Simple
d) None of these
BG 9.25
7. Why meat, fish and eggs should not be offered to Krishna?
a) Because Krishna didn’t ask these things to offer Him
b) Because Krishna asks for only a leaf, a flower, fruit or water
c) Vegetables, fruits, grains, milk and water are the proper foods prescribed for human beings by Krishna
d) All of the above
BG 9.26
1. Who is asking, to work, eat, give charity and perform austerities, to be done as an offering to Krishna?
a) Sukadeva Goswami
b) Krishna
c) Vyasadeva
d) Dronacarya
BG 9.27
2. What is the result of performing actions as service to Krishna and fruits of those actions being given to Krishna?
a) One is freed from all reactions to good and evil deeds
b) One becomes situated in renunciation
c) One completely surrenders himself to Krishna
d) All of the above
BG 9.28
3. If Krishna is equal to all then why He gives specific attention to His devotees?
a) Because they have surrendered unto Him
b) Because Krishna is a devotee of His devotees
c) Because the presence of reciprocation in relationship reflects personalist philosophy
d) All of the above
BG 9.29
4. Which of the following activities a conditioned living entity has?
a) Conditional
b) Constitutional
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 9.30
5. If a devotee falls down accidentally, then, he is to be considered as ______________________.
a) Abominable
b) Saintly
c) Normal
d) Exclusive
BG 9.30
6. Why Krishna’s devotees’ never perishes?
a) Because they are always thinking of Krishna
b) Because he can undergo any purificatory process
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 9.31
7. Who is eligible for the supreme destination?
a) Anyone who is austere
b) Women & sudras
c) Anyone who is engaged in transcendental devotional service to the Lord
d) None of these
BG 9.32
8. What is the means of being delivered from the clutches of this material world?
a) Being charitable
b) Being Krishna conscious
c) Being austere
d) Being personal to everyone
BG 9.34
a) Material
b) Krishna
c) Advanced
d) Falling
BG 9.19
2. What kind of happiness does a person achieve in the higher planetary systems?
a) Ecstatic
b) Sense pleasure
c) Flickering
d) Both b & c
BG 9.21
3. What is the promise made by Krishna to the persons who serves Him with devotion & surrenders fully unto Him?
a) Krishna carries what they lack
b) Krishna preserves what they have
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 9.22
4. Demigod worship is a/an _______________ way of worshiping Krishna.
a) Indirect
b) Same
c) Approved
d) Satisfying
BG 9.23
5. Is “black arts” or “black magic” spiritualism?
a) Yes
b) No
BG 9.24
6. Persons worshiping demigods, ghosts, ancestors or Krishna achieve __________________ abode.
a) The same
b) That respective
c) Simple
d) None of these
BG 9.25
7. Why meat, fish and eggs should not be offered to Krishna?
a) Because Krishna didn’t ask these things to offer Him
b) Because Krishna asks for only a leaf, a flower, fruit or water
c) Vegetables, fruits, grains, milk and water are the proper foods prescribed for human beings by Krishna
d) All of the above
BG 9.26
1. Who is asking, to work, eat, give charity and perform austerities, to be done as an offering to Krishna?
a) Sukadeva Goswami
b) Krishna
c) Vyasadeva
d) Dronacarya
BG 9.27
2. What is the result of performing actions as service to Krishna and fruits of those actions being given to Krishna?
a) One is freed from all reactions to good and evil deeds
b) One becomes situated in renunciation
c) One completely surrenders himself to Krishna
d) All of the above
BG 9.28
3. If Krishna is equal to all then why He gives specific attention to His devotees?
a) Because they have surrendered unto Him
b) Because Krishna is a devotee of His devotees
c) Because the presence of reciprocation in relationship reflects personalist philosophy
d) All of the above
BG 9.29
4. Which of the following activities a conditioned living entity has?
a) Conditional
b) Constitutional
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 9.30
5. If a devotee falls down accidentally, then, he is to be considered as ______________________.
a) Abominable
b) Saintly
c) Normal
d) Exclusive
BG 9.30
6. Why Krishna’s devotees’ never perishes?
a) Because they are always thinking of Krishna
b) Because he can undergo any purificatory process
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 9.31
7. Who is eligible for the supreme destination?
a) Anyone who is austere
b) Women & sudras
c) Anyone who is engaged in transcendental devotional service to the Lord
d) None of these
BG 9.32
8. What is the means of being delivered from the clutches of this material world?
a) Being charitable
b) Being Krishna conscious
c) Being austere
d) Being personal to everyone
BG 9.34
Bhagavad Gita CHAPTER 10
The Opulence of the Absolute
1. Who is the source
of demigods and great sages?
a) Lord Brahma
b) Lord Siva
c) Lord Krishna
d) All of these
BG 10.2
2. Krishna appeared _____________________ first, to Devaki and Vasudeva.
a) In His original form
b) As a ordinary child
c) Ecstatically
d) None of these
BG 10.3
3. How can freedom from doubt and delusion be achieved?
a) Being not hesitant
b) Understanding transcendental philosophy
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 10.4
4. Fear is due to ______________________.
a) Nature
b) Worrying about the future
c) Birth
d) None of these
BG 10.4
5. Are penance & austerity required in Krishna consciousness?
a) Yes
b) No
BG 10.5
6. Who develops all the good qualities?
a) One who is very knowledgeable
b) One who is a great yogi
c) One who is very sober
d) One who engages in the devotional service of the Lord
BG 10.5
7. How many great sages are known as the patriarchs of the living entities all over the world?
a) Seven
b) Four
c) Fourteen
d) Twenty-five
BG 10.6
8. What is the effect of knowing the greatness of Krishna?
a) One gains knowledge about Him
b) One becomes fixed in devotional service
c) One becomes a mystic
d) None of these
BG 10.7
9. Krishna is the source of ________________________ world.
a) Spiritual
b) Material
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 10.8
10. Realized souls in Krishna consciousness derive satisfaction, pleasure and bliss by __________________________.
a) Hearing transcendental literatures
b) Conversing about Krishna
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 10.9
11. What is buddhi-yoga?
a) Acting intelligently
b) Taking Krishna consciousness in devotional service
c) Intelligence in mystic activities
d) None of these
BG 10.10
12. How does Krishna reciprocates to one who is engaged in devotional service properly, but is not intelligent?
a) By giving him instructions from within to come to Him without difficulty
b) By giving him a chance to progress and ultimately attaining Him
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 10.10
a) Lord Brahma
b) Lord Siva
c) Lord Krishna
d) All of these
BG 10.2
2. Krishna appeared _____________________ first, to Devaki and Vasudeva.
a) In His original form
b) As a ordinary child
c) Ecstatically
d) None of these
BG 10.3
3. How can freedom from doubt and delusion be achieved?
a) Being not hesitant
b) Understanding transcendental philosophy
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 10.4
4. Fear is due to ______________________.
a) Nature
b) Worrying about the future
c) Birth
d) None of these
BG 10.4
5. Are penance & austerity required in Krishna consciousness?
a) Yes
b) No
BG 10.5
6. Who develops all the good qualities?
a) One who is very knowledgeable
b) One who is a great yogi
c) One who is very sober
d) One who engages in the devotional service of the Lord
BG 10.5
7. How many great sages are known as the patriarchs of the living entities all over the world?
a) Seven
b) Four
c) Fourteen
d) Twenty-five
BG 10.6
8. What is the effect of knowing the greatness of Krishna?
a) One gains knowledge about Him
b) One becomes fixed in devotional service
c) One becomes a mystic
d) None of these
BG 10.7
9. Krishna is the source of ________________________ world.
a) Spiritual
b) Material
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 10.8
10. Realized souls in Krishna consciousness derive satisfaction, pleasure and bliss by __________________________.
a) Hearing transcendental literatures
b) Conversing about Krishna
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 10.9
11. What is buddhi-yoga?
a) Acting intelligently
b) Taking Krishna consciousness in devotional service
c) Intelligence in mystic activities
d) None of these
BG 10.10
12. How does Krishna reciprocates to one who is engaged in devotional service properly, but is not intelligent?
a) By giving him instructions from within to come to Him without difficulty
b) By giving him a chance to progress and ultimately attaining Him
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 10.10
1. A devotee sincere
in Krishna consciousness ______________________ be without knowledge.
a) May
b) Can
c) Cannot
d) None of these
BG 10.11
2. What made Arjuna to conclude that Krishna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, The Supreme origin & the cause of all causes?
a) Vedic literatures confirm that Krishna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead
b) Great sages proclaim that Krishna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead
c) Krishna Himself declared that He is the Supreme Personality of Godhead
d) All of these
BG 10.12 & 10.13
3. Which process is recommended for understanding Bhagavad-Gita?
a) Academic education
b) Acceptance of disciplic succession
c) Academic education taught through great scholars
d) None of these
BG 10.12 & 10.13
4. How the truth about Krishna is by Arjuna?
a) Arjuna addresses Krishna as the father of all living entities & the supreme controller of everyone
b) Arjuna addresses Krishna as the Lord of all demigods & the supreme proprietor of everything
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 10.15
5. Why Arjuna asked Krishna, for the explanation of Krishna’s all pervading nature?
a) Because Arjuna had some doubts in his mind
b) So that, in the future, people will understand Krishna
c) Because he wanted to satisfy his guru
d) None of these
BG 10.16
6. Why the materialists cannot understand Krishna spiritually?
a) Because they are guarded by yoga-maya
b) Because they meditate on spirit
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 10.17
7. Why is hearing and reading about the Lord and His pastimes are forever fresh and not tiring?
a) Because its transcendental
b) Because its divine
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 10.18
8. Why the devotees want to understand Krishna, although one is not able to?
a) So that, at some point of time they will be able to know Krishna fully
b) Because, hearing about Krishna appear to be nectar to them
c) So that, their senses will not be imperfect
d) Because, they are compassionate to the conditioned souls
BG 10.19
9. Why Krishna agrees to tell only His principal manifestations and not all?
a) Because He is not interested in disclosing His details
b) Because the living entities do not understand the extent of His opulences
c) Because Krishna’s features are unlimited
d) Both b & c
BG 10.19
10. Why the address by Krishna to Arjuna as “Gudakesha” is significant?
a) Because Arjuna has conquered the darkness of sleep
b) Because Arjuna is the best of the Kurus
c) Because Arjuna is always victorious
d) None of these
BG 10.20
a) May
b) Can
c) Cannot
d) None of these
BG 10.11
2. What made Arjuna to conclude that Krishna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, The Supreme origin & the cause of all causes?
a) Vedic literatures confirm that Krishna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead
b) Great sages proclaim that Krishna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead
c) Krishna Himself declared that He is the Supreme Personality of Godhead
d) All of these
BG 10.12 & 10.13
3. Which process is recommended for understanding Bhagavad-Gita?
a) Academic education
b) Acceptance of disciplic succession
c) Academic education taught through great scholars
d) None of these
BG 10.12 & 10.13
4. How the truth about Krishna is by Arjuna?
a) Arjuna addresses Krishna as the father of all living entities & the supreme controller of everyone
b) Arjuna addresses Krishna as the Lord of all demigods & the supreme proprietor of everything
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 10.15
5. Why Arjuna asked Krishna, for the explanation of Krishna’s all pervading nature?
a) Because Arjuna had some doubts in his mind
b) So that, in the future, people will understand Krishna
c) Because he wanted to satisfy his guru
d) None of these
BG 10.16
6. Why the materialists cannot understand Krishna spiritually?
a) Because they are guarded by yoga-maya
b) Because they meditate on spirit
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 10.17
7. Why is hearing and reading about the Lord and His pastimes are forever fresh and not tiring?
a) Because its transcendental
b) Because its divine
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 10.18
8. Why the devotees want to understand Krishna, although one is not able to?
a) So that, at some point of time they will be able to know Krishna fully
b) Because, hearing about Krishna appear to be nectar to them
c) So that, their senses will not be imperfect
d) Because, they are compassionate to the conditioned souls
BG 10.19
9. Why Krishna agrees to tell only His principal manifestations and not all?
a) Because He is not interested in disclosing His details
b) Because the living entities do not understand the extent of His opulences
c) Because Krishna’s features are unlimited
d) Both b & c
BG 10.19
10. Why the address by Krishna to Arjuna as “Gudakesha” is significant?
a) Because Arjuna has conquered the darkness of sleep
b) Because Arjuna is the best of the Kurus
c) Because Arjuna is always victorious
d) None of these
BG 10.20
1. The sun is
considered to be which part of the Supreme Lord’s body?
a) Brain
b) Head
c) Eye
d) All of these
BG 10.21
2. Who is the controlling deity of the heavenly spaces?
a) Varuna
b) Marichi
c) Indra
d) None of these
BG 10.21
3. Can consciousness be produced by a combination of matter?
a) No
b) Yes
BG 10.22
4. Of all the _________ Rudras, Krishna is Shiva.
a) 9
b) 7
c) 12
d) 11
BG 10.23
5. Of all the mountains, Krishna is ____________.
a) Himalaya
b) Meru
c) Kailash
d) None of these
BG 10.23
6. Who is the chief of all priests?
a) Brhaspati
b) Valmiki
c) Vyasadeva
d) None of these
BG 10.24
7. Among the generals, Krishna is ________________, the lord of the war.
a) Indra
b) Shiva
c) Skanda
d) All of these
BG 10.24
8. Bhrgu is the _________________.
a) Most powerful son of Brahma
b) Greatest sage
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 10.25
9. Om represents ______________________.
a) Auspiciousness
b) The Supreme Lord of all sacrifices
c) Devotion
d) Trans
BG 10.25
10. Who is the representation of Krishna as a devotee?
a) Vyasadeva
b) Kapila
c) Shiva
d) Narada
BG 10.26
11. In vedic literature, ________________ is considered to be the representative of God.
a) King
b) Sages
c) Learned men
d) None of these
BG 10.27
12. Sex for the generation of good children is called __________________ and represents Krishna
a) Varuna
b) Ananta
c) Kandarpa
d) All of these
BG 10.28
13. Who represents Krishna, in the planet of ancestors?
a) Varuna
b) Ananta
c) Kandarpa
d) Aryama
BG 10.29
14. Among the beasts, _________________ represents Krishna.
a) Eagle
b) Lion
c) Tiger
d) All of these
BG 10.30
15. Why Prahlada is considered to be a representative of Krishna among demons?
a) Because his godly nature
b) Because of his devotional service
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 10.30
1. Among the rivers, _______________ is the representation of Krishna?
a) Yamuna
b) Ganges
c) Godavari
d) Cauvery
BG 10.31
2. Who is the secondary creator?
a) Maha-Vishnu
b) Krishna
c) Brahma
d) None of these
BG 10.32
3. Among the killers, ______________ ultimately kills everything.
a) Time
b) Duality
c) Reasoning
d) One’s own interpretation
BG 10.33
4. How many feminine qualities are listed by Krishna in BG?
a) Five
b) Ten
c) Seven
d) Fifteen
BG 10.34
5. Which of the Veda is rich in beautiful songs played by the demigods?
a) Artha-veda
b) Yajur-veda
c) Rig-veda
d) Sama-veda
BG 10.35
6. Which of the following season is considered as the representative of Krishna?
a) Winter
b) Spring
c) Summer
d) Autumn
BG 10.35
7. Of all cheating processes, ______________ stands supreme.
a) Lying
b) Fighting
c) Gambling
d) None of these
BG 10.36
8. ___________________ is the immediate expansion of Krishna.
a) Vasudeva
b) Brahma
c) Baladeva
d) None of these
BG 10.37
9. Among the following, which of the confidential activity is important?
a) Hearing
b) Thinking
c) Meditating
d) Silence
BG 10.38
10. How is the Supreme Lord represented throughout the entire material universes?
a) Through His teachings
b) Through devotional service
c) By entering into all things as Supersoul
d) None of these
BG 10.42
a) Brain
b) Head
c) Eye
d) All of these
BG 10.21
2. Who is the controlling deity of the heavenly spaces?
a) Varuna
b) Marichi
c) Indra
d) None of these
BG 10.21
3. Can consciousness be produced by a combination of matter?
a) No
b) Yes
BG 10.22
4. Of all the _________ Rudras, Krishna is Shiva.
a) 9
b) 7
c) 12
d) 11
BG 10.23
5. Of all the mountains, Krishna is ____________.
a) Himalaya
b) Meru
c) Kailash
d) None of these
BG 10.23
6. Who is the chief of all priests?
a) Brhaspati
b) Valmiki
c) Vyasadeva
d) None of these
BG 10.24
7. Among the generals, Krishna is ________________, the lord of the war.
a) Indra
b) Shiva
c) Skanda
d) All of these
BG 10.24
8. Bhrgu is the _________________.
a) Most powerful son of Brahma
b) Greatest sage
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 10.25
9. Om represents ______________________.
a) Auspiciousness
b) The Supreme Lord of all sacrifices
c) Devotion
d) Trans
BG 10.25
10. Who is the representation of Krishna as a devotee?
a) Vyasadeva
b) Kapila
c) Shiva
d) Narada
BG 10.26
11. In vedic literature, ________________ is considered to be the representative of God.
a) King
b) Sages
c) Learned men
d) None of these
BG 10.27
12. Sex for the generation of good children is called __________________ and represents Krishna
a) Varuna
b) Ananta
c) Kandarpa
d) All of these
BG 10.28
13. Who represents Krishna, in the planet of ancestors?
a) Varuna
b) Ananta
c) Kandarpa
d) Aryama
BG 10.29
14. Among the beasts, _________________ represents Krishna.
a) Eagle
b) Lion
c) Tiger
d) All of these
BG 10.30
15. Why Prahlada is considered to be a representative of Krishna among demons?
a) Because his godly nature
b) Because of his devotional service
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 10.30
1. Among the rivers, _______________ is the representation of Krishna?
a) Yamuna
b) Ganges
c) Godavari
d) Cauvery
BG 10.31
2. Who is the secondary creator?
a) Maha-Vishnu
b) Krishna
c) Brahma
d) None of these
BG 10.32
3. Among the killers, ______________ ultimately kills everything.
a) Time
b) Duality
c) Reasoning
d) One’s own interpretation
BG 10.33
4. How many feminine qualities are listed by Krishna in BG?
a) Five
b) Ten
c) Seven
d) Fifteen
BG 10.34
5. Which of the Veda is rich in beautiful songs played by the demigods?
a) Artha-veda
b) Yajur-veda
c) Rig-veda
d) Sama-veda
BG 10.35
6. Which of the following season is considered as the representative of Krishna?
a) Winter
b) Spring
c) Summer
d) Autumn
BG 10.35
7. Of all cheating processes, ______________ stands supreme.
a) Lying
b) Fighting
c) Gambling
d) None of these
BG 10.36
8. ___________________ is the immediate expansion of Krishna.
a) Vasudeva
b) Brahma
c) Baladeva
d) None of these
BG 10.37
9. Among the following, which of the confidential activity is important?
a) Hearing
b) Thinking
c) Meditating
d) Silence
BG 10.38
10. How is the Supreme Lord represented throughout the entire material universes?
a) Through His teachings
b) Through devotional service
c) By entering into all things as Supersoul
d) None of these
BG 10.42
Bhagavad Gita CHAPTER 11
The Universal Form
1. What made Arjuna’s
illusion to be dispelled?
a) By accepting Krishna as the source of everything
b) By hearing the instruction on confidential spiritual matters by Krishna
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 11.1
2. Is Arjuna convinced of the fact that in spite of being Krishna the source of everything, He is aloof from them?
a) Yes
b) No
BG 11.2
3. Why Arjuna desired to see the universal form of the Lord?
a) Because of his personal desire for confirmation
b) To convince others of Krishna’s divinity
c) To satisfy the Lord
d) None of these
BG 11.3
4. To whom does Krishna reveal Himself?
a) One who is very perfect in yogic performances
b) One who fully surrenders in krishna consciousness
c) One who engages in devotional service
d) Both b & c
BG 11.4
5. Is the universal form of Krishna, eternally situated in the spiritual sky?
a) Yes
b) No
BG 11.5
6. To see the universal form of Krishna, Arjuna is told to change his ________________.
a) Vision
b) Mind
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 11.8
7. Devotees correctly situated in transcendental relationship with Krishna are attracted by __________________.
a) The loving features of Krishna
b) Universal form of Krishna
c) Doing proper yogic penances
d) None of these
BG 11.8
8. Because of ____________________, Arjuna could see the universal form of the Lord sitting at one place.
a) Arjuna’s family lineage
b) Pandava’s piety
c) Krishna’s inconceivable potency
d) Being a great warrior
BG 11.11
a) By accepting Krishna as the source of everything
b) By hearing the instruction on confidential spiritual matters by Krishna
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 11.1
2. Is Arjuna convinced of the fact that in spite of being Krishna the source of everything, He is aloof from them?
a) Yes
b) No
BG 11.2
3. Why Arjuna desired to see the universal form of the Lord?
a) Because of his personal desire for confirmation
b) To convince others of Krishna’s divinity
c) To satisfy the Lord
d) None of these
BG 11.3
4. To whom does Krishna reveal Himself?
a) One who is very perfect in yogic performances
b) One who fully surrenders in krishna consciousness
c) One who engages in devotional service
d) Both b & c
BG 11.4
5. Is the universal form of Krishna, eternally situated in the spiritual sky?
a) Yes
b) No
BG 11.5
6. To see the universal form of Krishna, Arjuna is told to change his ________________.
a) Vision
b) Mind
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 11.8
7. Devotees correctly situated in transcendental relationship with Krishna are attracted by __________________.
a) The loving features of Krishna
b) Universal form of Krishna
c) Doing proper yogic penances
d) None of these
BG 11.8
8. Because of ____________________, Arjuna could see the universal form of the Lord sitting at one place.
a) Arjuna’s family lineage
b) Pandava’s piety
c) Krishna’s inconceivable potency
d) Being a great warrior
BG 11.11
1. How could Sanjaya
explain the Universal form of the Lord to Dhrtarastra?
a) He described it in an imaginable way as far as he could
b) He didn’t feel the need to tell about this form of the Lord to the king
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 11.12
2. Could anyone else, other than Krishna and Arjuna understand about the Universal form of the Lord in the battlefield?
a) Yes
b) No
BG 11.13
3. Why Arjuna offered his obeisances with great respect to Krishna?
a) Because he was meditating on Krishna in the battlefield
b) Because Krishna drove his chariot
c) Because he saw the Universal form of Krishna
d) None of these
BG 11.14
4. Which of the following celestial serpent did Arjuna saw, upon which Garbhodakshayi Vishnu lying?
a) Kaliya
b) Vasuki
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 11.15
5. Why Arjuna repeats the glories of Krishna again and again, upon seeing the Universal form?
a) He does so, to honor Krishna
b) Because he was bewildered
c) Because he was in wonder
d) Both b & c
BG 11.19
a) He described it in an imaginable way as far as he could
b) He didn’t feel the need to tell about this form of the Lord to the king
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 11.12
2. Could anyone else, other than Krishna and Arjuna understand about the Universal form of the Lord in the battlefield?
a) Yes
b) No
BG 11.13
3. Why Arjuna offered his obeisances with great respect to Krishna?
a) Because he was meditating on Krishna in the battlefield
b) Because Krishna drove his chariot
c) Because he saw the Universal form of Krishna
d) None of these
BG 11.14
4. Which of the following celestial serpent did Arjuna saw, upon which Garbhodakshayi Vishnu lying?
a) Kaliya
b) Vasuki
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 11.15
5. Why Arjuna repeats the glories of Krishna again and again, upon seeing the Universal form?
a) He does so, to honor Krishna
b) Because he was bewildered
c) Because he was in wonder
d) Both b & c
BG 11.19
1. What was Arjuna’s
reaction upon seeing the Universal form of the Lord?
a) He was very happy & satisfied
b) He was bewildered & afraid
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 11.24 & 11.25
2. Arjuna saw the leaders of the opposite party being _______________ in the Universal form of the Lord.
a) Annihilated
b) Fighting
c) Sleeping
d) None of these
BG 11.27
3. Does the Supreme Truth destroy everything, including Brahma also?
a) Yes
b) No
BG 11.32
4. What does “savya-sacin” refers to in BG 11.33?
a) Refers to one who is very intelligent in the field
b) Refers to one who is very strong physically
c) Refers to one who can shoot arrows very expertly in the field
d) Refers to one who is conscious of his acts in the field
BG 11.33
5. Battle of Kuruksetra was fought according to _______________________.
a) The kaurvas
b) The pandavas
c) The state leaders of Hastinapur
d) The plan of the Lord
BG 11.33
a) He was very happy & satisfied
b) He was bewildered & afraid
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 11.24 & 11.25
2. Arjuna saw the leaders of the opposite party being _______________ in the Universal form of the Lord.
a) Annihilated
b) Fighting
c) Sleeping
d) None of these
BG 11.27
3. Does the Supreme Truth destroy everything, including Brahma also?
a) Yes
b) No
BG 11.32
4. What does “savya-sacin” refers to in BG 11.33?
a) Refers to one who is very intelligent in the field
b) Refers to one who is very strong physically
c) Refers to one who can shoot arrows very expertly in the field
d) Refers to one who is conscious of his acts in the field
BG 11.33
5. Battle of Kuruksetra was fought according to _______________________.
a) The kaurvas
b) The pandavas
c) The state leaders of Hastinapur
d) The plan of the Lord
BG 11.33
1. Why Krishna gives
credit to His devotees who carry out His plans according to His desires?
a) Because He is kind
b) Because He is merciful
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 11.34
2. In the outer space, the demigods took pleasure in the universal form of the Lord whereas the demons fled. Why this kind of Krishna’s treatment to the demigods & demons praised by Arjuna?
a) Because Arjuna was in relation to Krishna
b) Because Arjuna was a devotee
c) Because Arjuna knew that whatever the Lord does is right
d) Both b & c
BG 11.36
3. Arjuna addresses Krishna as mahatma. This means ____________________.
a) Transcendental
b) Great
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 11.37
4. Does the Brahman effulgence also rest on the Supreme Personality of Godhead Krishna?
a) Yes
b) No
BG 11.38
5. Why Arjuna addressed the Lord as the grandfather?
a) Because Krishna was 126 yrs. old when he spoke BG
b) Because Arjuna was in relation to Krishna
c) Because Krishna is the father of Brahma, the first living creature in the universe
d) None of these
BG 11.39
6. Why Arjuna asks for forgiveness to Krishna for his informal behavior towards Him?
a) Because Arjuna found it safe to ask for forgiveness to Krishna
b) Because the universal form of Krishna, showed Arjuna that, Krishna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 11.42
7. Why is Krishna addressed as the spiritual master by Arjuna?
a) Because He gave spiritual advice to Arjuna
b) Because Drona was a disciple of Krishna
c) Because Krishna wanted Him to be addressed as the spiritual master
d) Because he gave the vedic instructions to Brahma & to Arjuna also in the battlefield
BG 11.43
8. Krishna & Arjuna are related as ____________________.
a) Master & servant
b) Father & son
c) Friends
d) None of these
BG 11.44
1. Why Arjuna asks to Krishna, to show the His Narayana form, after seeing the universal form of the Lord?
a) Because he knew that Krishna can assume any form
b) Because he is afraid of the offense committed by him to Krishna after watching the universal form
c) Because Narayana form is one & the same to Krishna
d) All of the above
BG 11.45
2. The universal form of Krishna was manifested by Krishna through His ______________________.
a) Internal potency
b) Thoughts
c) Devotees
d) Speculation
BG 11.47
3. Was the universal form of the Lord known to anyone before Arjuna?
a) Yes
b) No
BG 11.48
4. Who can see the universal form of the Lord?
a) Anyone
b) Great yogis
c) Pure devotee
d) All of the above
BG 11.48
5. Why a devotee is not interested in the universal form of the Lord?
a) Because its not beautiful
b) Because its doesn’t enable one to have loving relations with the Lord
c) Because its unlawful
d) None of these
BG 11.49
6. The Supreme Personality of Godhead is originally ____________________.
a) Two-handed
b) Four-handed
c) Universal
d) None of the above
BG 11.51
7. Which is more difficult to understand?
a) Universal form of the Lord
b) Four-handed form of the Lord
c) Two-handed form of the Lord
d) None of these
BG 11.52
a) Because He is kind
b) Because He is merciful
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 11.34
2. In the outer space, the demigods took pleasure in the universal form of the Lord whereas the demons fled. Why this kind of Krishna’s treatment to the demigods & demons praised by Arjuna?
a) Because Arjuna was in relation to Krishna
b) Because Arjuna was a devotee
c) Because Arjuna knew that whatever the Lord does is right
d) Both b & c
BG 11.36
3. Arjuna addresses Krishna as mahatma. This means ____________________.
a) Transcendental
b) Great
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 11.37
4. Does the Brahman effulgence also rest on the Supreme Personality of Godhead Krishna?
a) Yes
b) No
BG 11.38
5. Why Arjuna addressed the Lord as the grandfather?
a) Because Krishna was 126 yrs. old when he spoke BG
b) Because Arjuna was in relation to Krishna
c) Because Krishna is the father of Brahma, the first living creature in the universe
d) None of these
BG 11.39
6. Why Arjuna asks for forgiveness to Krishna for his informal behavior towards Him?
a) Because Arjuna found it safe to ask for forgiveness to Krishna
b) Because the universal form of Krishna, showed Arjuna that, Krishna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 11.42
7. Why is Krishna addressed as the spiritual master by Arjuna?
a) Because He gave spiritual advice to Arjuna
b) Because Drona was a disciple of Krishna
c) Because Krishna wanted Him to be addressed as the spiritual master
d) Because he gave the vedic instructions to Brahma & to Arjuna also in the battlefield
BG 11.43
8. Krishna & Arjuna are related as ____________________.
a) Master & servant
b) Father & son
c) Friends
d) None of these
BG 11.44
1. Why Arjuna asks to Krishna, to show the His Narayana form, after seeing the universal form of the Lord?
a) Because he knew that Krishna can assume any form
b) Because he is afraid of the offense committed by him to Krishna after watching the universal form
c) Because Narayana form is one & the same to Krishna
d) All of the above
BG 11.45
2. The universal form of Krishna was manifested by Krishna through His ______________________.
a) Internal potency
b) Thoughts
c) Devotees
d) Speculation
BG 11.47
3. Was the universal form of the Lord known to anyone before Arjuna?
a) Yes
b) No
BG 11.48
4. Who can see the universal form of the Lord?
a) Anyone
b) Great yogis
c) Pure devotee
d) All of the above
BG 11.48
5. Why a devotee is not interested in the universal form of the Lord?
a) Because its not beautiful
b) Because its doesn’t enable one to have loving relations with the Lord
c) Because its unlawful
d) None of these
BG 11.49
6. The Supreme Personality of Godhead is originally ____________________.
a) Two-handed
b) Four-handed
c) Universal
d) None of the above
BG 11.51
7. Which is more difficult to understand?
a) Universal form of the Lord
b) Four-handed form of the Lord
c) Two-handed form of the Lord
d) None of these
BG 11.52
Bhagavad Gita CHAPTER 12
Devotional Service
Devotional Service
1. In how many
classes are transcendentalists divided?
a) Two
b) Four
c) Ten
d) Fourteen
BG 12.1
2. According to Lord Krishna who is the more perfect?
a) One who is worshiping the impersonal Brahman
b) One who is engaged in devotional service
c) One who in yogic meditation
d) All of these
BG 12.2
3. Is there any penance involved before one surrenders to Krishna?
a) Yes
b) No
BG 12.3
4. Which one of the following is easier for the embodied soul?
a) Jnana-yoga
b) Karma-yoga
c) Bhakti-yoga
d) All of these
12.5
5. Arca-vigraha is a/an _________________ of the Supreme Lord.
a) Service
b) Incarnation
c) Realization
d) None of the above
BG 12.5
6. Who has to become experienced in order to transfer himself to the spiritual sky?
a) Yogi
b) Jnani
c) Karmi
d) Pure devotee
BG 12.7
7. A devotee does not live on ___________________.
a) The impersonal position
b) The intelligence
c) The material plane
d) None of the above
BG 12.8
8. How many different processes of Bhakti-yoga are indicated in BG 12.9?
a) One
b) Two
c) Three
d) Four
BG 12.9
9. Practice of bhakti-yoga, ______________________________ will surely bring one to the stage of love of God.
a) Under the rules and regulations
b) With the directions of a spiritual master
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 12.9
10. Can a person, who cannot sacrifice the results of his activities, but sacrifices some percentage to propagate krishna consciousness, reach the stage of perfection?
a) Yes
b) No
BG 12.10
1. What can be done, if there are impediments to accepting Krishna consciousness?
a) One should perform severe austerities
b) One should be faithful
c) One should try to give up the results of his actions
d) None of the above
BG 12.11
2. Which of the following comes under the indirect path of devotional service?
a) Meditation
b) Knowledge & renunciation
c) Realization of Supersoul & Brahman
d) All of these
BG 12.12
3. Why the indirect path of devotional service is not recommended for Arjuna?
a) Because he was a statesman
b) Because he was very much disturbed by the results of the war
c) Because he is already in the stage of loving devotional service to Krishna
d) None of the above
BG 12.12
4. A pure devotee takes the distress and disturbance as ____________________.
a) A regulative principle
b) The Lord’s mercy
c) A consciousness
d) A service
BG 12.14
5. A devotee is pure _________________.
a) Form of the Lord
b) Inwardly
c) Outwardly
d) Both b & c
BG 12.16
6. What is meant by saying that “a devotee is silent”?
a) He doesn’t speak anything nonsense
b) He doesn’t speak
c) He keeps his mind always fixed in the Lord
d) He doesn’t speak while mediation
BG 12.19
7. A devotee is fixed in his _________________ & ____________________.
a) Determination
b) Knowledge
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 12.19
8. How a devotee has good qualities?
a) Because of his endeavor
b) Because of his engagement in devotional service
c) Because of his qualifications
d) Because of his conditions
BG 12.19
9. The best of all spiritual realization is ___________________.
a) Yogic practice
b) Performing severe austerities
c) Devotional service
d) All of the above
BG 12.20
10. How does one develop attachment for pure devotional service?
a) Through good association
b) Accepting a bona fide spiritual master
c) Hearing, chanting & observing regulative principles of devotional service
d) All of the above
BG 12.20
a) Two
b) Four
c) Ten
d) Fourteen
BG 12.1
2. According to Lord Krishna who is the more perfect?
a) One who is worshiping the impersonal Brahman
b) One who is engaged in devotional service
c) One who in yogic meditation
d) All of these
BG 12.2
3. Is there any penance involved before one surrenders to Krishna?
a) Yes
b) No
BG 12.3
4. Which one of the following is easier for the embodied soul?
a) Jnana-yoga
b) Karma-yoga
c) Bhakti-yoga
d) All of these
12.5
5. Arca-vigraha is a/an _________________ of the Supreme Lord.
a) Service
b) Incarnation
c) Realization
d) None of the above
BG 12.5
6. Who has to become experienced in order to transfer himself to the spiritual sky?
a) Yogi
b) Jnani
c) Karmi
d) Pure devotee
BG 12.7
7. A devotee does not live on ___________________.
a) The impersonal position
b) The intelligence
c) The material plane
d) None of the above
BG 12.8
8. How many different processes of Bhakti-yoga are indicated in BG 12.9?
a) One
b) Two
c) Three
d) Four
BG 12.9
9. Practice of bhakti-yoga, ______________________________ will surely bring one to the stage of love of God.
a) Under the rules and regulations
b) With the directions of a spiritual master
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 12.9
10. Can a person, who cannot sacrifice the results of his activities, but sacrifices some percentage to propagate krishna consciousness, reach the stage of perfection?
a) Yes
b) No
BG 12.10
1. What can be done, if there are impediments to accepting Krishna consciousness?
a) One should perform severe austerities
b) One should be faithful
c) One should try to give up the results of his actions
d) None of the above
BG 12.11
2. Which of the following comes under the indirect path of devotional service?
a) Meditation
b) Knowledge & renunciation
c) Realization of Supersoul & Brahman
d) All of these
BG 12.12
3. Why the indirect path of devotional service is not recommended for Arjuna?
a) Because he was a statesman
b) Because he was very much disturbed by the results of the war
c) Because he is already in the stage of loving devotional service to Krishna
d) None of the above
BG 12.12
4. A pure devotee takes the distress and disturbance as ____________________.
a) A regulative principle
b) The Lord’s mercy
c) A consciousness
d) A service
BG 12.14
5. A devotee is pure _________________.
a) Form of the Lord
b) Inwardly
c) Outwardly
d) Both b & c
BG 12.16
6. What is meant by saying that “a devotee is silent”?
a) He doesn’t speak anything nonsense
b) He doesn’t speak
c) He keeps his mind always fixed in the Lord
d) He doesn’t speak while mediation
BG 12.19
7. A devotee is fixed in his _________________ & ____________________.
a) Determination
b) Knowledge
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 12.19
8. How a devotee has good qualities?
a) Because of his endeavor
b) Because of his engagement in devotional service
c) Because of his qualifications
d) Because of his conditions
BG 12.19
9. The best of all spiritual realization is ___________________.
a) Yogic practice
b) Performing severe austerities
c) Devotional service
d) All of the above
BG 12.20
10. How does one develop attachment for pure devotional service?
a) Through good association
b) Accepting a bona fide spiritual master
c) Hearing, chanting & observing regulative principles of devotional service
d) All of the above
BG 12.20
Bhagavad Gita CHAPTER 13
Nature, the Enjoyer, and Consciousness
Nature, the Enjoyer, and Consciousness
1. What is the field
of activity for the conditioned soul?
a) Capacity
b) Body
c) Heart
d) None of these
2. Are the actual field of activities and knower of the field of activities different?
a) Yes
b) No
3. What is perfect knowledge in Krishna’s opinion?
a) Perfect knowledge of the constitution of the body, soul & Supersoul
b) Understanding the soul & Supersoul as one and yet distinct
c) Understanding the nature, the enjoyer of the nature, and the Supreme controller
d) All of the above
4. Krishna being the highest in the knowledge of the field of activities, why He explains it referring to the Vedanta-sutra?
a) Because He likes it
b) Because Arjuna learned all his teachings from Vedanta-sutra
c) Because Vedanta-sutra are accepted as authority
d) All of the above
5. There are _____________ stages of Brahman realization.
a) Three
b) Ten
c) Eight
d) Five
6. Which of the following involve the fields of activities of living entities?
a) Vijnana-maya & ananda-maya
b) Anna-maya, prana-maya, jnana-maya
c) Prana-maya & jnana-maya
d) Anna-maya, prana-maya, jnana-maya & vijnana-maya
7. How many elements are there in the field of activity?
a) Five
b) Eight
c) Twenty-four
d) Thirty-two
8. Are subtle elements also included in the field of activity?
a) No
b) Yes
9. Consciousness is represented by ________________________.
a) Intelligence
b) Material nature
c) Proprietorship
d) None of these
10. What does “unmanifested stage” in BG 14.6 mean?
a) Interactions
b) Symptoms
c) Elements
d) The three modes of material nature
a) Capacity
b) Body
c) Heart
d) None of these
2. Are the actual field of activities and knower of the field of activities different?
a) Yes
b) No
3. What is perfect knowledge in Krishna’s opinion?
a) Perfect knowledge of the constitution of the body, soul & Supersoul
b) Understanding the soul & Supersoul as one and yet distinct
c) Understanding the nature, the enjoyer of the nature, and the Supreme controller
d) All of the above
4. Krishna being the highest in the knowledge of the field of activities, why He explains it referring to the Vedanta-sutra?
a) Because He likes it
b) Because Arjuna learned all his teachings from Vedanta-sutra
c) Because Vedanta-sutra are accepted as authority
d) All of the above
5. There are _____________ stages of Brahman realization.
a) Three
b) Ten
c) Eight
d) Five
6. Which of the following involve the fields of activities of living entities?
a) Vijnana-maya & ananda-maya
b) Anna-maya, prana-maya, jnana-maya
c) Prana-maya & jnana-maya
d) Anna-maya, prana-maya, jnana-maya & vijnana-maya
7. How many elements are there in the field of activity?
a) Five
b) Eight
c) Twenty-four
d) Thirty-two
8. Are subtle elements also included in the field of activity?
a) No
b) Yes
9. Consciousness is represented by ________________________.
a) Intelligence
b) Material nature
c) Proprietorship
d) None of these
10. What does “unmanifested stage” in BG 14.6 mean?
a) Interactions
b) Symptoms
c) Elements
d) The three modes of material nature
1. Even for one who
takes to devotional service the principle of accepting ____________________ is
essential.
a) Knowledge
b) A spiritual master
c) Regulation in life
d) None of the above
BG 13.8
2. How a man in perfect knowledge does follow humility?
a) He is not affected either by honor or dishonor.
b) He honestly listens to others
c) He doesn’t reply back to anyone
d) None of these
BG 13.8
3. What does nonviolence mean?
a) To not put others into distress
b) To distribute real knowledge to the people to enlighten them
c) Both a & b
d) Neither of these
BG 13.8
4. Why tolerance should be practiced?
a) To win over others
b) To advance in spiritual knowledge
c) To get out of danger
d) To free oneself
BG 13.8
5. How the regulative principles become easy for one?
a) By sincerely following them
b) By regulating all the bad habits
c) By practicing dishonor
d) By serving the spiritual master without reservation
BG 13.8
6. Simplicity means__________________.
a) Without diplomacy
b) Being straight-forward
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 13.8
7. How many kind of cleanliness are there?
a) Four
b) Three
c) Two
d) One
BG 13.8
8. Which is the most uncontrollable sense?
a) Tongue
b) Eyes
c) Ear & nose
d) Touch
BG 13.9
9. Is both false & real ego condemned?
a) Yes
b) No
BG 13.9
10. How can one make his home pleasant?
a) Chanting the Hare Krishna maha-mantra
b) Accepting the remnants of foodstuffs offered to Krishna
c) Discussing on books like BG & SB and engaging in Deity worship
d) All of the above
BG 13.10
11. According to BG, research by philosophical discretion should be on __________________.
a) Science
b) Beginning of the Universe
c) Nature of the soul
d) Speculative function
BG 13.11
a) Knowledge
b) A spiritual master
c) Regulation in life
d) None of the above
BG 13.8
2. How a man in perfect knowledge does follow humility?
a) He is not affected either by honor or dishonor.
b) He honestly listens to others
c) He doesn’t reply back to anyone
d) None of these
BG 13.8
3. What does nonviolence mean?
a) To not put others into distress
b) To distribute real knowledge to the people to enlighten them
c) Both a & b
d) Neither of these
BG 13.8
4. Why tolerance should be practiced?
a) To win over others
b) To advance in spiritual knowledge
c) To get out of danger
d) To free oneself
BG 13.8
5. How the regulative principles become easy for one?
a) By sincerely following them
b) By regulating all the bad habits
c) By practicing dishonor
d) By serving the spiritual master without reservation
BG 13.8
6. Simplicity means__________________.
a) Without diplomacy
b) Being straight-forward
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 13.8
7. How many kind of cleanliness are there?
a) Four
b) Three
c) Two
d) One
BG 13.8
8. Which is the most uncontrollable sense?
a) Tongue
b) Eyes
c) Ear & nose
d) Touch
BG 13.9
9. Is both false & real ego condemned?
a) Yes
b) No
BG 13.9
10. How can one make his home pleasant?
a) Chanting the Hare Krishna maha-mantra
b) Accepting the remnants of foodstuffs offered to Krishna
c) Discussing on books like BG & SB and engaging in Deity worship
d) All of the above
BG 13.10
11. According to BG, research by philosophical discretion should be on __________________.
a) Science
b) Beginning of the Universe
c) Nature of the soul
d) Speculative function
BG 13.11
12. What is the last stage in perfection of knowledge?
a) Tolerance
b) Detachment
c) Renunciation of the objects of sense gratification
d) Realization of the Supreme Truth
BG 13.12
1. Individual soul is
____________________.
a) Vijnana-brahma
b) Ananda-brahma
c) Anadi-brahma
d) All of these
BG 13.13
2. Is the Supersoul all pervading?
a) No
b) Yes
BG 13.14
3. How will you explain the fact that the Supersoul is without senses?
a) His senses are transcendental
b) His senses are not contaminated by material nature
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 13.15
4. Why can’t we see the Supreme Lord who is always transcendental?
a) Because Supreme Lord doesn’t want to reveal His form
b) Because Supreme Lord doesn’t have any form
c) Because we will not be benefited by seeing such form of the Lord
d) Because we have materially contaminated senses
BG 13.15
5. Supreme Lord is present in ______________________.
a) Spiritual world
b) Material world
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 13.16
6. As the Supersoul is present in everyone’s heart, then does it mean that He has become divided?
a) Yes
b) No
BG 13.17
7. What covers the Lord’s spiritual effulgence in the material world?
a) Illumination of planets
b) Knowledge
c) Universal effulgence
d) Material elements
BG 13.18
8. What includes the science of knowledge?
a) The knower
b) The knowable
c) The process of knowing
d) All of these
BG 13.19
9. ___________________ is the field of activity which is composed of material nature, & ______________ is embodied in it.
a) Body, individual soul
b) Material manifestation, energy
c) Universal creation, illumination
d) None of these
BG 13.20
10. Do both the living entities & the material nature exist before the manifestation of this cosmos?
a) Yes
b) No
BG 13.20
a) Vijnana-brahma
b) Ananda-brahma
c) Anadi-brahma
d) All of these
BG 13.13
2. Is the Supersoul all pervading?
a) No
b) Yes
BG 13.14
3. How will you explain the fact that the Supersoul is without senses?
a) His senses are transcendental
b) His senses are not contaminated by material nature
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 13.15
4. Why can’t we see the Supreme Lord who is always transcendental?
a) Because Supreme Lord doesn’t want to reveal His form
b) Because Supreme Lord doesn’t have any form
c) Because we will not be benefited by seeing such form of the Lord
d) Because we have materially contaminated senses
BG 13.15
5. Supreme Lord is present in ______________________.
a) Spiritual world
b) Material world
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 13.16
6. As the Supersoul is present in everyone’s heart, then does it mean that He has become divided?
a) Yes
b) No
BG 13.17
7. What covers the Lord’s spiritual effulgence in the material world?
a) Illumination of planets
b) Knowledge
c) Universal effulgence
d) Material elements
BG 13.18
8. What includes the science of knowledge?
a) The knower
b) The knowable
c) The process of knowing
d) All of these
BG 13.19
9. ___________________ is the field of activity which is composed of material nature, & ______________ is embodied in it.
a) Body, individual soul
b) Material manifestation, energy
c) Universal creation, illumination
d) None of these
BG 13.20
10. Do both the living entities & the material nature exist before the manifestation of this cosmos?
a) Yes
b) No
BG 13.20
1. Who is the cause
of all material activities and effects?
a) Living entity
b) Material nature
c) Enjoyment
d) All of these
BG 13.21
2. __________________ are instruments for gratifying desire.
a) Different manifestations
b) Different species
c) Senses
d) None of these
BG 13.21
3. Why does the living entity transmigrates form one body to another?
a) Due to his attachment to material existence
b) Due to his desire of lording over material nature
c) Due to association with the different modes of nature
d) All of the above
BG 13.22
4. Is the Supersoul present as finite enjoyer in the living entity?
a) Yes
b) No
BG 13.23
5. What makes the living entity reject the sanction of the Supreme Lord?
a) His minute independence
b) His rebellious nature
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 13.23
6. How can the living entity attain a blissful eternal life of knowledge?
a) By understanding material nature, Supersoul and individual soul and their relation
b) By associating with saintly persons
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 13.24
7. One who understands the Supreme Personality of Godhead by cultivation of knowledge can be counted in the ________________ class.
a) First
b) Second
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 13.25
8. Is it possible for a person, who is not conversant in spiritual knowledge, but just faithfully hearing from the authoritative persons about the Supreme personality of Godhead, transcend the path of birth and death?
a) Yes
b) No
BG 13.26
9. Anything created in this existence, is only a combination of __________________ & __________________.
a) Moving, unmoving
b) Touch , its results
c) Material nature, living entity
d) Supreme controller, eternity
BG 13.27
10. Who actually sees according to BG 13.18?
a) One who has proper vision
b) One who understands that Supersoul is master of the body
c) One who understands that both the Supersoul & individual soul are not destroyed
d) None of these
BG 13.28
1. According to BG 13.29 who advances to the spiritual world?
a) One who performs severe austerities
b) One who sees the presence of Supreme personality of Godhead everywhere
c) One who performs the mystic yogic activities
d) One who has faith in himself
BG 13.29
2. Present body of a living entity is given according to his past _________________.
a) Circumstances
b) Development
c) Desires
d) Senses
BG 13.30
3. Soul is _____________________.
a) Transcendental
b) Eternal
c) Beyond the modes of nature
d) All of the above
BG 13.32
4. Does the soul mix with the body?
a) No
b) Yes
BG 13.33
5. Is it necessary to know the difference between the body and the owner of the body?
a) No
b) Yes
BG 13.35
a) Living entity
b) Material nature
c) Enjoyment
d) All of these
BG 13.21
2. __________________ are instruments for gratifying desire.
a) Different manifestations
b) Different species
c) Senses
d) None of these
BG 13.21
3. Why does the living entity transmigrates form one body to another?
a) Due to his attachment to material existence
b) Due to his desire of lording over material nature
c) Due to association with the different modes of nature
d) All of the above
BG 13.22
4. Is the Supersoul present as finite enjoyer in the living entity?
a) Yes
b) No
BG 13.23
5. What makes the living entity reject the sanction of the Supreme Lord?
a) His minute independence
b) His rebellious nature
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 13.23
6. How can the living entity attain a blissful eternal life of knowledge?
a) By understanding material nature, Supersoul and individual soul and their relation
b) By associating with saintly persons
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 13.24
7. One who understands the Supreme Personality of Godhead by cultivation of knowledge can be counted in the ________________ class.
a) First
b) Second
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
BG 13.25
8. Is it possible for a person, who is not conversant in spiritual knowledge, but just faithfully hearing from the authoritative persons about the Supreme personality of Godhead, transcend the path of birth and death?
a) Yes
b) No
BG 13.26
9. Anything created in this existence, is only a combination of __________________ & __________________.
a) Moving, unmoving
b) Touch , its results
c) Material nature, living entity
d) Supreme controller, eternity
BG 13.27
10. Who actually sees according to BG 13.18?
a) One who has proper vision
b) One who understands that Supersoul is master of the body
c) One who understands that both the Supersoul & individual soul are not destroyed
d) None of these
BG 13.28
1. According to BG 13.29 who advances to the spiritual world?
a) One who performs severe austerities
b) One who sees the presence of Supreme personality of Godhead everywhere
c) One who performs the mystic yogic activities
d) One who has faith in himself
BG 13.29
2. Present body of a living entity is given according to his past _________________.
a) Circumstances
b) Development
c) Desires
d) Senses
BG 13.30
3. Soul is _____________________.
a) Transcendental
b) Eternal
c) Beyond the modes of nature
d) All of the above
BG 13.32
4. Does the soul mix with the body?
a) No
b) Yes
BG 13.33
5. Is it necessary to know the difference between the body and the owner of the body?
a) No
b) Yes
BG 13.35
Bhagavad Gita CHAPTER 14
The Three Modes of Material Nature
The Three Modes of Material Nature
1. Who is not
affected either by the creation or the destruction of the material world?
a) One who is perfect
b) One who has develops spiritual qualities
c) One who is intelligent
d) One who is brave
2. Who among the following, even after liberation doesn’t lose their individuality?
a) Perfectionists
b) Impersonalists
c) Devotees
d) All of the above
3. _____________________ is the total cause of the total cosmic manifestation.
a) Brahman
b) Spirit soul
c) Both a & b
d) Mahat-tattva
4. What makes possible for the births of all living beings?
a) When the spirit soul desires to change body
b) When all the twenty-four elements combine together
c) When the Supreme Personality of Godhead impregnates Brahman
d) None of these
5. If Krishna is the same seed giving father for all entities, then why do different forms of life come during creation?
a) Because of their past deeds
b) Because Brahma designed them so
c) To have a wide range of species
d) None of the above
6. How a living entity in the mode of goodness does become conditioned?
a) Thinking that he is advanced in knowledge
b) Thinking that he is better than others
c) Thinking that he is happiest of all
d) All of the above
7. What makes a living entity in the mode of passion to get bound to material fruitive actions?
a) His austerities for maintaining life
b) His unlimited desires and longings
c) His civilization
d) None of the above
8. What are the symptoms of a person in the mode of ignorance?
a) Madness
b) Laziness
c) Excessive sleeping
d) All of the above
9. Can a particular mode dominate over the other two?
a) Yes
b) No
10. A devotee is situated in _________________.
a) Mode of ignorance
b) Mode of passion
c) Pure goodness
d) Mode of goodness
1. What are the symptoms of all the gates of the body in the mode of goodness?
a) Happiness
b) Illumination by knowledge
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
2. Which of the following are manifested in the mode of ignorance?
a) Darkness & illusion
b) Madness & darkness
c) Madness & inactivity
d) Both a & c
3. Which of the following according to BG 14.14 means pure?
a) Sattve
b) Amalan
c) Tadottma
d) None of these
4. What happens if one dies in the mode of ignorance?
a) He takes birth as human being again
b) He takes birth among those engaged in fruitive activities
c) He takes birth in the animal kingdom
d) None of these
5. Slaughtering animals is due to the mode of ____________________.
a) Ignorance
b) Passion
c) Goodness
d) All of the above
6. Is there any possibility for peace & happiness all over the world if only a certain percentage of population are Krishna conscious?
a) Yes
b) No
7. How can a person in the mode of passion or ignorance rise to the level of the mode of goodness?
a) Being austere
b) Being kind to others
c) Being a good listener
d) Being Krishna conscious
8. Why is the living entity forced to perform different activities?
a) As he wants it that way
b) Because doing so, he is relieved of his sufferings
c) Because he is in a particular type of body governed by some particular mode of material nature
d) All of these
9. How can one be freed from the influence of the modes of material nature?
a) By chanting the vedic hymns
b) By practicing devotional service in Krishna consciousness
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
a) One who is perfect
b) One who has develops spiritual qualities
c) One who is intelligent
d) One who is brave
2. Who among the following, even after liberation doesn’t lose their individuality?
a) Perfectionists
b) Impersonalists
c) Devotees
d) All of the above
3. _____________________ is the total cause of the total cosmic manifestation.
a) Brahman
b) Spirit soul
c) Both a & b
d) Mahat-tattva
4. What makes possible for the births of all living beings?
a) When the spirit soul desires to change body
b) When all the twenty-four elements combine together
c) When the Supreme Personality of Godhead impregnates Brahman
d) None of these
5. If Krishna is the same seed giving father for all entities, then why do different forms of life come during creation?
a) Because of their past deeds
b) Because Brahma designed them so
c) To have a wide range of species
d) None of the above
6. How a living entity in the mode of goodness does become conditioned?
a) Thinking that he is advanced in knowledge
b) Thinking that he is better than others
c) Thinking that he is happiest of all
d) All of the above
7. What makes a living entity in the mode of passion to get bound to material fruitive actions?
a) His austerities for maintaining life
b) His unlimited desires and longings
c) His civilization
d) None of the above
8. What are the symptoms of a person in the mode of ignorance?
a) Madness
b) Laziness
c) Excessive sleeping
d) All of the above
9. Can a particular mode dominate over the other two?
a) Yes
b) No
10. A devotee is situated in _________________.
a) Mode of ignorance
b) Mode of passion
c) Pure goodness
d) Mode of goodness
1. What are the symptoms of all the gates of the body in the mode of goodness?
a) Happiness
b) Illumination by knowledge
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
2. Which of the following are manifested in the mode of ignorance?
a) Darkness & illusion
b) Madness & darkness
c) Madness & inactivity
d) Both a & c
3. Which of the following according to BG 14.14 means pure?
a) Sattve
b) Amalan
c) Tadottma
d) None of these
4. What happens if one dies in the mode of ignorance?
a) He takes birth as human being again
b) He takes birth among those engaged in fruitive activities
c) He takes birth in the animal kingdom
d) None of these
5. Slaughtering animals is due to the mode of ____________________.
a) Ignorance
b) Passion
c) Goodness
d) All of the above
6. Is there any possibility for peace & happiness all over the world if only a certain percentage of population are Krishna conscious?
a) Yes
b) No
7. How can a person in the mode of passion or ignorance rise to the level of the mode of goodness?
a) Being austere
b) Being kind to others
c) Being a good listener
d) Being Krishna conscious
8. Why is the living entity forced to perform different activities?
a) As he wants it that way
b) Because doing so, he is relieved of his sufferings
c) Because he is in a particular type of body governed by some particular mode of material nature
d) All of these
9. How can one be freed from the influence of the modes of material nature?
a) By chanting the vedic hymns
b) By practicing devotional service in Krishna consciousness
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
Bhagavad Gita CHAPTER 15
The Yoga of the Supreme Person
The Yoga of the Supreme Person
1. What is the
purpose of the vedic study?
a) To become humble
b) To understand Krishna
c) To develop love for everyone
d) To gain knowledge
2. What is compared as the leaves of the banyan tree in BG 15.1?
a) Entanglement in the material world
b) Fruitive activities
c) Vedic hymns
d) All of the above
3. What is the basic principle of devotional service?
a) Detachment from material activities
b) Attachment to service to the Lord
c) Both a & b
d) None of the above
4. How does the root of this banyan tree grow?
a) Upwards
b) Downwards
c) Both ways
d) None of the way
5. What is the effect of knowing this banyan tree?
a) One comes to know about the Vedas
b) One can get out of this material existence
c) Attachment to this tree leads to the impossibility of liberation
d) All of the above
6. From where does this tree get its nourishment?
a) From the lower parts of the tree
b) From the three modes of material nature
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
7. The twigs of this banyan tree are considered to be ___________________.
a) Different modes of nature
b) Enjoyment
c) The sense objects
d) All of the above
8. What are tendencies to piety & impiety considered as?
a) Fruitive activities for promotion
b) Field of activities
c) Virtuous activities
d) Secondary roots spreading in all directions
9. This planet of human beings is considered the ___________________.
a) Fruitive activities for promotion
b) Field of activities
c) Virtuous activities
d) All of the above
10. Can anyone see the beginning of this tree?
a) Yes
b) No
11. With _________________ should one cut off this tree with the weapon of __________________.
a) Determination, detachment
b) Personality, determination
c) Connection, science
d) Knowledge, reality
12. What one must do to get out of the entanglement of this strong banyan tree?
a) Gain knowledge about self
b) Become religious
c) Surrender to Krishna
d) None of the above
13. Pride is due to ________________.
a) Happiness
b) Duality
c) Knowledge
d) Illusion
14. In Goloka Vrndavana all the planets are _____________________.
a) Bright
b) Self-luminous
c) Perverted
d) Conditional
15. What is enjoyed by a living entity after reaching the abode of Sri Krishna?
a) Eternal bliss
b) Eternal life
c) Full knowledge
d) All of the above
a) To become humble
b) To understand Krishna
c) To develop love for everyone
d) To gain knowledge
2. What is compared as the leaves of the banyan tree in BG 15.1?
a) Entanglement in the material world
b) Fruitive activities
c) Vedic hymns
d) All of the above
3. What is the basic principle of devotional service?
a) Detachment from material activities
b) Attachment to service to the Lord
c) Both a & b
d) None of the above
4. How does the root of this banyan tree grow?
a) Upwards
b) Downwards
c) Both ways
d) None of the way
5. What is the effect of knowing this banyan tree?
a) One comes to know about the Vedas
b) One can get out of this material existence
c) Attachment to this tree leads to the impossibility of liberation
d) All of the above
6. From where does this tree get its nourishment?
a) From the lower parts of the tree
b) From the three modes of material nature
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
7. The twigs of this banyan tree are considered to be ___________________.
a) Different modes of nature
b) Enjoyment
c) The sense objects
d) All of the above
8. What are tendencies to piety & impiety considered as?
a) Fruitive activities for promotion
b) Field of activities
c) Virtuous activities
d) Secondary roots spreading in all directions
9. This planet of human beings is considered the ___________________.
a) Fruitive activities for promotion
b) Field of activities
c) Virtuous activities
d) All of the above
10. Can anyone see the beginning of this tree?
a) Yes
b) No
11. With _________________ should one cut off this tree with the weapon of __________________.
a) Determination, detachment
b) Personality, determination
c) Connection, science
d) Knowledge, reality
12. What one must do to get out of the entanglement of this strong banyan tree?
a) Gain knowledge about self
b) Become religious
c) Surrender to Krishna
d) None of the above
13. Pride is due to ________________.
a) Happiness
b) Duality
c) Knowledge
d) Illusion
14. In Goloka Vrndavana all the planets are _____________________.
a) Bright
b) Self-luminous
c) Perverted
d) Conditional
15. What is enjoyed by a living entity after reaching the abode of Sri Krishna?
a) Eternal bliss
b) Eternal life
c) Full knowledge
d) All of the above
16. How can one reach the supreme abode of Sri Krishna from this material world?
a) By taking the process of Krishna consciousness
b) Associate with devotees
c) By surrendering oneself to Krishna
d) All of the above
17. The spiritual world is full of ___________ opulences.
a) Sixteen
b) Twenty
c) Six
d) Twenty-eight
18. What are the primary expansions of Supreme Lord called as?
a) Visnu-tattva
b) Brahma
c) Living entities
d) All of the above
19. By the use or misuse of which quality does one become liberated or conditioned?
a) Embodiment
b) Independence
c) Knowledge
d) Austerity
20. The conditioned soul is covered by the ________________.
a) Material body & senses
b) Mind
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
21. As the living entities are the fragmental parts & parcels of the Supreme Lord, then does it mean that the fragmental portion of the Supreme Lord is like some material broken part?
a) Yes
b) No
1. Why is the living
entity called as the Lord of the body?
a) Because the body belongs to him
b) Because the body works according to his need
c) Because of the minute independence available to him, he can change his body to a higher or lower grade
d) All of the above
2. What is carried in the process of transmigrating from one body to another?
a) Subtle body
b) Fate
c) Struggle
d) None of the above
3. Who can understand that how the living entity’s body is changing & how he quits the body?
a) Those who are self-realized
b) Those who developed spiritual knowledge
c) Both a & b
d) Those who are suffering
4. What are the thoughts regarding sun, moon and fire that provoke to Krishna consciousness in the conditioned soul?
a) Without their presence no living entity can live
b) They are pleasing to the living entity
c) They all emanate from the Supreme Personality of Godhead and without His mercy they can’t live
d) None of these
5. The fire in the stomach is the _________________ of the Supreme personality of Godhead.
a) Cause
b) Representative
c) Digestion
d) Fist
6. Supreme Personality of Godhead is the digestive force for how many kinds of foodstuff?
a) Fifteen
b) Twenty-two
c) Sixteen
d) Four
a) Because the body belongs to him
b) Because the body works according to his need
c) Because of the minute independence available to him, he can change his body to a higher or lower grade
d) All of the above
2. What is carried in the process of transmigrating from one body to another?
a) Subtle body
b) Fate
c) Struggle
d) None of the above
3. Who can understand that how the living entity’s body is changing & how he quits the body?
a) Those who are self-realized
b) Those who developed spiritual knowledge
c) Both a & b
d) Those who are suffering
4. What are the thoughts regarding sun, moon and fire that provoke to Krishna consciousness in the conditioned soul?
a) Without their presence no living entity can live
b) They are pleasing to the living entity
c) They all emanate from the Supreme Personality of Godhead and without His mercy they can’t live
d) None of these
5. The fire in the stomach is the _________________ of the Supreme personality of Godhead.
a) Cause
b) Representative
c) Digestion
d) Fist
6. Supreme Personality of Godhead is the digestive force for how many kinds of foodstuff?
a) Fifteen
b) Twenty-two
c) Sixteen
d) Four
1. From whom remembrance, knowledge & forgetfulness comes?
a) Within
b) Vedas
c) Supreme Personality of Godhead
d) The results of one’s own karma
2. Krishna in His incarnation as ____________________ is the complier of the Vedanta-sutra.
a) Brahma
b) Vyasadeva
c) Prajapatis
d) All of the above
3. What is the ultimate goal of the Vedas?
a) Austerities
b) Getting involved in yogic processes
c) Develop intelligence
d) Supreme Personality of Godhead
4. For what reason one does undergo changes in the body?
a) Due to one’s own will
b) Due to contact with matter
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
5. What does oneness with the Supreme Personality of Godhead mean?
a) Supreme personality of Godhead and the living entities are the same
b) Having no individuality
c) Everyone’s individuality being innumerably divided
d) There is no disunity between Supreme personality of Godhead and the living entities
6. Living entity cannot surpass in quantity the ____________________ of the Lord.
a) Inconceivable potencies
b) Service
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
7. Who is the knower of everything?
a) One who can chant the Vedic hymns
b) One who offers his/her obeisances to the Lord
c) One who knows Krishna as the Supreme personality of Godhead & engages himself/herself in His service
d) All of the above
8. Devotional service to the Lord and the Lord Himself are ____________________.
a) Different
b) Natural
c) Bright
d) One and the same
9. By engaging in the devotional service of the Lord one is freed of all ___________________.
a) Contamination
b) Sinful activities
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
10. What are the weaknesses of the heart?
a) Desire to lord over the material nature
b) Becoming attached to matter & its possessions
c) Both a & b
d) Material existence
Bhagavad Gita CHAPTER 16
The Divine and Demoniac Nature
The Divine and Demoniac Nature
1. What is the
varnasrama dharma meant for?
a) To divide the society according to birth
b) To make progress in spiritual life
c) To become humble
d) All of the above
2. Why should a person in the renounced order of life be fearless?
a) Because he has to be alone without support and depend completely on the Supreme Personality of Godhead
b) Because he should tell others the qualities of fearlessness
c) Because this helps him to be austere
d) All of the above
3. What is the duty of a sannyasi?
a) Distribute knowledge to those who have forgotten their spiritual advancement
b) He should preach with logic & understanding about spiritual science
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
4. Charity should be given to ________________ person.
a) A simple
b) Any
c) A ignorant
d) The right
5. What among the following are recommended for the householders according to BG 16.1?
a) Charity
b) Sense control
c) Performance of sacrifice
d) All of the above
6. What among the following are meant for the brahmacaris according to BG 16.1?
a) Vedic study, austerity & performance of sacrifice
b) Vedic study, austerity & simplicity
c) Vedic study,& simplicity
d) Austerity & simplicity
7. Simplicity is the quality for _____________________ asrama.
a) Brahmacari & sannyasa
b) Brahmacari, sannyasa & vanaprastha
c) Brahmacaris, grhasthas, vanaprastha & sannyasa
d) None of the above
8. What is real ahimsa?
a) Not killing any living entity
b) Not checking anyone’s progressive life
c) Being calm & quiet
d) All of the above
9. Anger is a product of _____________________.
a) Provocation
b) Pollution & conditioning
c) Lust
d) Mode of passion & lust
10. How many qualities are described in BG 16.1-16.3, gradually developing which, one can rise to transcendental realizations?
a) Twenty-six
b) Twenty
c) Sixteen
d) Thirty-two
1. What are the qualities of a demoniac person?
a) Ignorance, harshness, anger & arrogance
b) Ignorance, harshness, conceit, anger & pride
c) Ignorance, harshness, conceit, anger, arrogance & pride
d) Ignorance, harshness, conceit, demanding, anger & arrogance
2. Why Arjuna’s fight against the kauravas is not considered as demoniac?
a) Being a kshatriya, fighting with the enemy is transcendental
b) He did not have any demoniac qualities
c) Neither a or b
d) Both a and b
3. Both the demigods and demons are born of __________________.
a) Brahma
b) Prajapati
c) Yoga-maya
d) Themselves
4. Which is the law of the human race?
a) Manu-samhita
b) Brahma-samhita
c) Both a & b
d) Neither a nor b
5. The demons do not follow rules for _________________ cleanliness
a) Internal
b) External
c) Both a & b
d) Neither a nor b
6. What interpretation do demons have regarding the creation of the world?
a) The material manifestation arises due to chance material actions and reactions
b) There is no cause other than the material nature being the origin of this manifestation
c) They do not accept God as the creator of this world, but rather everyone has their own theory of creation
d) All of the above
7. According to BG 16.9, are the atomic or nuclear weapons meant for peace and prosperity of the world?
a) No
b) Yes
8. What are the unclean habits of demoniac people?
a) Wine, women, gambling & meat eating
b) Creating their own hymns & chant accordingly
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
1. What is the ultimate goal of life for the demoniac people?
a) Serving humanity
b) Serving the Lord
c) Sense enjoyment
d) Serving impersonalize
2. ______________________ is observing the activities of the individual soul.
a) Brahma
b) Brahman
c) Spiritual spark
d) Supersoul
3. What forces a person to fall down to hell?
a) Being illusioned
b) Too much attachment for sense gratification
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
4. Disregard for the rules and regulations of the scriptures are due to __________________.
a) Illusion & ignorance
b) Illusion
c) Ignorance
d) None of these
5. Why is a demoniac person envious of the scriptures & the Supreme Personality of Godhead?
a) Because of his prestige
b) Because of his wealth
c) Because of his strength
d) All of the above
6. What is the cause of so many species of life in the material existence?
a) It indicates the Supremacy of the Lord
b) So that the living entity gets a particular kind of body according to his own choice in which he can fulfill his desires
c) Its accidental
d) None of these
7. The placing of demons in the lowest species of life is a kind of _______________ of the Supreme Lord.
a) Incarnation
b) Mercy
c) Advertisement
d) Hatred
8. What one has to give up so that one does not fall to demoniac life?
a) Lust, anger & greed
b) Lust , anger & pride
c) Anger, pride & material austerity
d) Anger, greed & material austerity
9. Self realization is ___________________ in devotional service.
a) Called
b) Succeeded
c) Perfected
d) Instructed
10. A person who knowingly violates the rules and regulations of the scriptures acts in ____________________.
a) Pride
b) Lust
c) Happiness
d) Irrelevant knowledge
11. What can’t be attained by discarding the scriptural injunctions?
a) The Supreme Lord
b) Happiness
c) Perfection
d) All of the above
12. Are the scriptures above the four principal defects that are in the conditioned soul?
a) Yes
b) No
a) To divide the society according to birth
b) To make progress in spiritual life
c) To become humble
d) All of the above
2. Why should a person in the renounced order of life be fearless?
a) Because he has to be alone without support and depend completely on the Supreme Personality of Godhead
b) Because he should tell others the qualities of fearlessness
c) Because this helps him to be austere
d) All of the above
3. What is the duty of a sannyasi?
a) Distribute knowledge to those who have forgotten their spiritual advancement
b) He should preach with logic & understanding about spiritual science
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
4. Charity should be given to ________________ person.
a) A simple
b) Any
c) A ignorant
d) The right
5. What among the following are recommended for the householders according to BG 16.1?
a) Charity
b) Sense control
c) Performance of sacrifice
d) All of the above
6. What among the following are meant for the brahmacaris according to BG 16.1?
a) Vedic study, austerity & performance of sacrifice
b) Vedic study, austerity & simplicity
c) Vedic study,& simplicity
d) Austerity & simplicity
7. Simplicity is the quality for _____________________ asrama.
a) Brahmacari & sannyasa
b) Brahmacari, sannyasa & vanaprastha
c) Brahmacaris, grhasthas, vanaprastha & sannyasa
d) None of the above
8. What is real ahimsa?
a) Not killing any living entity
b) Not checking anyone’s progressive life
c) Being calm & quiet
d) All of the above
9. Anger is a product of _____________________.
a) Provocation
b) Pollution & conditioning
c) Lust
d) Mode of passion & lust
10. How many qualities are described in BG 16.1-16.3, gradually developing which, one can rise to transcendental realizations?
a) Twenty-six
b) Twenty
c) Sixteen
d) Thirty-two
1. What are the qualities of a demoniac person?
a) Ignorance, harshness, anger & arrogance
b) Ignorance, harshness, conceit, anger & pride
c) Ignorance, harshness, conceit, anger, arrogance & pride
d) Ignorance, harshness, conceit, demanding, anger & arrogance
2. Why Arjuna’s fight against the kauravas is not considered as demoniac?
a) Being a kshatriya, fighting with the enemy is transcendental
b) He did not have any demoniac qualities
c) Neither a or b
d) Both a and b
3. Both the demigods and demons are born of __________________.
a) Brahma
b) Prajapati
c) Yoga-maya
d) Themselves
4. Which is the law of the human race?
a) Manu-samhita
b) Brahma-samhita
c) Both a & b
d) Neither a nor b
5. The demons do not follow rules for _________________ cleanliness
a) Internal
b) External
c) Both a & b
d) Neither a nor b
6. What interpretation do demons have regarding the creation of the world?
a) The material manifestation arises due to chance material actions and reactions
b) There is no cause other than the material nature being the origin of this manifestation
c) They do not accept God as the creator of this world, but rather everyone has their own theory of creation
d) All of the above
7. According to BG 16.9, are the atomic or nuclear weapons meant for peace and prosperity of the world?
a) No
b) Yes
8. What are the unclean habits of demoniac people?
a) Wine, women, gambling & meat eating
b) Creating their own hymns & chant accordingly
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
1. What is the ultimate goal of life for the demoniac people?
a) Serving humanity
b) Serving the Lord
c) Sense enjoyment
d) Serving impersonalize
2. ______________________ is observing the activities of the individual soul.
a) Brahma
b) Brahman
c) Spiritual spark
d) Supersoul
3. What forces a person to fall down to hell?
a) Being illusioned
b) Too much attachment for sense gratification
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
4. Disregard for the rules and regulations of the scriptures are due to __________________.
a) Illusion & ignorance
b) Illusion
c) Ignorance
d) None of these
5. Why is a demoniac person envious of the scriptures & the Supreme Personality of Godhead?
a) Because of his prestige
b) Because of his wealth
c) Because of his strength
d) All of the above
6. What is the cause of so many species of life in the material existence?
a) It indicates the Supremacy of the Lord
b) So that the living entity gets a particular kind of body according to his own choice in which he can fulfill his desires
c) Its accidental
d) None of these
7. The placing of demons in the lowest species of life is a kind of _______________ of the Supreme Lord.
a) Incarnation
b) Mercy
c) Advertisement
d) Hatred
8. What one has to give up so that one does not fall to demoniac life?
a) Lust, anger & greed
b) Lust , anger & pride
c) Anger, pride & material austerity
d) Anger, greed & material austerity
9. Self realization is ___________________ in devotional service.
a) Called
b) Succeeded
c) Perfected
d) Instructed
10. A person who knowingly violates the rules and regulations of the scriptures acts in ____________________.
a) Pride
b) Lust
c) Happiness
d) Irrelevant knowledge
11. What can’t be attained by discarding the scriptural injunctions?
a) The Supreme Lord
b) Happiness
c) Perfection
d) All of the above
12. Are the scriptures above the four principal defects that are in the conditioned soul?
a) Yes
b) No
Bhagavad
Gita Chapter-17
The
Divisions of Faith
1. Can one change his
position to a higher mode of nature?
a) No
b) Yes
2. If every living being is the part & parcel of the Lord then why is he influenced by the modes of material nature?
a) Because he feels comfortable in that situation
b) Because only the modes of material nature are accessible to him
c) Because he forgets his relationship with the Lord
d) By doing so, he acts practically
3. When is the faith subject to contamination by any of the modes of material nature?
a) When one is depressed
b) When one’s faith is not completely in purified goodness
c) When one’s faith is tainted
d) None of these
4. Who do not worship according to the scriptures Krishna as the Supreme Personality of Godhead?
a) Those who are not conversant with the scriptures
b) Those who are not faithful to the scriptures
c) Those who worship according to their mode of material nature
d) All of these
5. Those in the mode of __________________, worship and create gods.
a) Passion
b) Ignorance
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
6. Supreme Personality of Godhead’s worship is for those who are in the state of ______________________________.
a) The mode of goodness
b) The state of service
c) Transcendental pure goodness
d) None of these
7. Impersonalists are in the mode of _________________.
a) Goodness
b) Passion
c) Ignorance
d) All of these
8. The scriptures recommend fasting for ______________________.
a) Political end
b) Spiritual advancement
c) Social purpose
d) All of the above
9. According to Bhagavad-Gita, is it possible to be situated in real knowledge and attain the perfectional stage of life, for those, who place their faith in something, by selecting a human being and worshiping him?
a) Yes
b) No
10. What are the characteristics of the food in the mode of passion?
a) Too bitter & sour
b) Too Salty & pungent
c) Too dry & hot
d) All of the above
11. What should be done to make the food antiseptic, eatable and palatable?
a) Prepare it hygienically
b) Prepare it with proper instructions
c) Offer food to the Supreme Personality of Godhead
d) Prepare it with full enthusiasm
a) No
b) Yes
2. If every living being is the part & parcel of the Lord then why is he influenced by the modes of material nature?
a) Because he feels comfortable in that situation
b) Because only the modes of material nature are accessible to him
c) Because he forgets his relationship with the Lord
d) By doing so, he acts practically
3. When is the faith subject to contamination by any of the modes of material nature?
a) When one is depressed
b) When one’s faith is not completely in purified goodness
c) When one’s faith is tainted
d) None of these
4. Who do not worship according to the scriptures Krishna as the Supreme Personality of Godhead?
a) Those who are not conversant with the scriptures
b) Those who are not faithful to the scriptures
c) Those who worship according to their mode of material nature
d) All of these
5. Those in the mode of __________________, worship and create gods.
a) Passion
b) Ignorance
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
6. Supreme Personality of Godhead’s worship is for those who are in the state of ______________________________.
a) The mode of goodness
b) The state of service
c) Transcendental pure goodness
d) None of these
7. Impersonalists are in the mode of _________________.
a) Goodness
b) Passion
c) Ignorance
d) All of these
8. The scriptures recommend fasting for ______________________.
a) Political end
b) Spiritual advancement
c) Social purpose
d) All of the above
9. According to Bhagavad-Gita, is it possible to be situated in real knowledge and attain the perfectional stage of life, for those, who place their faith in something, by selecting a human being and worshiping him?
a) Yes
b) No
10. What are the characteristics of the food in the mode of passion?
a) Too bitter & sour
b) Too Salty & pungent
c) Too dry & hot
d) All of the above
11. What should be done to make the food antiseptic, eatable and palatable?
a) Prepare it hygienically
b) Prepare it with proper instructions
c) Offer food to the Supreme Personality of Godhead
d) Prepare it with full enthusiasm
1. What should be
one’s mood while going to a church or temple?
a) To worship for economic development
b) To worship God as a matter of one’s duty
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
2. Faith in the mode of ignorance is actually __________________.
a) Genuine
b) Recreation
c) Faithlessness
d) Non-violent
3. What should be the characteristic of the superiors who are to be offered respect?
a) They should be understanding
b) They should be genuine
c) They should be qualified Brahmans
d) They should be conversant with vedic knowledge
4. Is it a penance and austerity for the sex to be allowed only in marriage and not otherwise?
a) Yes
b) No
5. What are the austerities of speech?
a) Speaking truthfully & beneficially
b) Reciting the Vedas regularly
c) Avoiding speech that offends & talking nonsense
d) All of the above
6. Is it wrong on a teacher’s part if he speaks the truth for the instruction of his disciples and that agitates the mind of the student?
a) Yes
b) No
7. How should one speak in spiritual circles?
a) One should listen to others speech
b) One should discuss the important topics
c) One’s statement must be upheld by scriptures
d) One’s statement must be pleasurable
8. Detachment from sense gratification makes the mind _______________.
a) Austere
b) Healthy
c) Satisfied
d) Conscious
9. How a Krishna conscious person does observe silence?
a) He doesn’t observe silence at all
b) He talks little
c) He always thinks of self-realization
d) None of these
10. __________________________ charity is not recommended in scriptures.
a) Infinite
b) Indiscriminate
c) Compassionate
d) Passive
a) To worship for economic development
b) To worship God as a matter of one’s duty
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
2. Faith in the mode of ignorance is actually __________________.
a) Genuine
b) Recreation
c) Faithlessness
d) Non-violent
3. What should be the characteristic of the superiors who are to be offered respect?
a) They should be understanding
b) They should be genuine
c) They should be qualified Brahmans
d) They should be conversant with vedic knowledge
4. Is it a penance and austerity for the sex to be allowed only in marriage and not otherwise?
a) Yes
b) No
5. What are the austerities of speech?
a) Speaking truthfully & beneficially
b) Reciting the Vedas regularly
c) Avoiding speech that offends & talking nonsense
d) All of the above
6. Is it wrong on a teacher’s part if he speaks the truth for the instruction of his disciples and that agitates the mind of the student?
a) Yes
b) No
7. How should one speak in spiritual circles?
a) One should listen to others speech
b) One should discuss the important topics
c) One’s statement must be upheld by scriptures
d) One’s statement must be pleasurable
8. Detachment from sense gratification makes the mind _______________.
a) Austere
b) Healthy
c) Satisfied
d) Conscious
9. How a Krishna conscious person does observe silence?
a) He doesn’t observe silence at all
b) He talks little
c) He always thinks of self-realization
d) None of these
10. __________________________ charity is not recommended in scriptures.
a) Infinite
b) Indiscriminate
c) Compassionate
d) Passive
1. Charity performed
for some return is in the mode of __________________.
a) Goodness
b) Passion
c) Ignorance
d) All of the above
2. Charity given for intoxication and gambling is in the mode of _________________.
a) Goodness
b) Passion
c) Ignorance
d) All of the above
3. What the three words “om tat sat” indicate?
a) Vedas
b) Goal of life
c) Sacrifice
d) Absolute Truth
4. What Brahma, the first created living entity while performing the sacrifices spoke?
a) Om
b) Tat
c) Sat
d) Om tat sat
5. Acting for any material gains does not elevate one _________________.
a) Consciously
b) Permanently
c) Spiritually
d) None of the above
6. One who acts in Krishna consciousness is called ____________ and one who is fully conscious of the activities in Krishna consciousness is called ______________.
a) Sattva, sadhu
b) Sadhu, sidhi
c) Sadhu, tapasi
d) None of the above
7. Faith in Supreme, when matured what it is called as?
a) Purity
b) Love
c) Training
d) Reality
8. What is the message of the seventeenth chapter of Bhagavad-Gita?
a) The ultimate goal of life is love of God
b) Living entities must take to Krishna consciousness
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
a) Goodness
b) Passion
c) Ignorance
d) All of the above
2. Charity given for intoxication and gambling is in the mode of _________________.
a) Goodness
b) Passion
c) Ignorance
d) All of the above
3. What the three words “om tat sat” indicate?
a) Vedas
b) Goal of life
c) Sacrifice
d) Absolute Truth
4. What Brahma, the first created living entity while performing the sacrifices spoke?
a) Om
b) Tat
c) Sat
d) Om tat sat
5. Acting for any material gains does not elevate one _________________.
a) Consciously
b) Permanently
c) Spiritually
d) None of the above
6. One who acts in Krishna consciousness is called ____________ and one who is fully conscious of the activities in Krishna consciousness is called ______________.
a) Sattva, sadhu
b) Sadhu, sidhi
c) Sadhu, tapasi
d) None of the above
7. Faith in Supreme, when matured what it is called as?
a) Purity
b) Love
c) Training
d) Reality
8. What is the message of the seventeenth chapter of Bhagavad-Gita?
a) The ultimate goal of life is love of God
b) Living entities must take to Krishna consciousness
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
Bhagavad Gita CHAPTER 18
The Perfection of Renunciation
1. Why Arjuna asked for the clarification
of renunciation and the renounce order of life to Krishna?
a) Because these words were sounding different to Arjuna
b) Because he liked the renounce order of life
c) Because purpose of life is renunciation and attainment of transcendental position
d) Because this topic is subjective
2. Why is Krishna called as Hrishikesha ?
a) Because He is the master of the three worlds
b) Because He is the master of all senses
c) Because He is the master of all demigods
d) All of the above
3. Why Arjuna addresses Krishna as Keshi-nishudana?
a) Because Krishna killed the demon Keshi
b) Because Arjuna had doubts which were like demons
c) Because Arjuna wanted Krishna to clarify his doubts as Krishna killed the demon Keshi
d) All of the above
4. What is meant by the renounced order of life?
a) Giving up activities that are based on material desire
b) Giving up all activities
c) Performing severe austerities
d) Having all knowledge about the scriptures
5. What is meant by renunciation?
a) Giving up all activities
b) Giving up the results of all activities
c) Giving up desires
d) None of these
6. How many kinds of renunciation are there?
a) Thirty-two
b) Sixteen
c) Three
d) One hundred and eight
7. Is marriage ceremony considered as a sacrifice for advancing a human being to spiritual life?
a) Yes
b) No
8. Charity if given to suitable person, _________________ one’s heart.
a) Reads
b) Specifies
c) Activates
d) Purifies
9. Sacrifice, charity, penance should be performed without any expectation of _____________.
a) Work
b) Result
c) Recommendation
d) None of these
10. What among the following should be encouraged?
a) Sacrifices that purifies one’s existence
b) Everything leading to Krishna consciouness
c) Activities helping one in the discharge of devotional service to the Lord
d) All of the above
11. When is renunciation said to be in the mode of ignorance?
a) If one gives up his prescribed duties because of illusion
b) If one gives up his prescribed duties out of fear of bodily discomfort
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
12. What happens if a person renounces in the mode of passion?
a) He is always miserable
b) His consciousness advances
c) He never gets the result of renunciation
d) None of these
13. An intelligent renouncer in the mode of goodness
a) Hates inauspicious work
b) Attaches to auspicious work
c) Hates anything which troubles his body
d) None of these
14. How can one renounce the fruits of action?
a) By working for Krishna
b) By not enjoying the fruitive results himself
c) By offering everything to Krishna
d) All of these
15. What are the threefold fruits of action that accrue after death for those who are not renounced?
a) Desirable, suffering and work
b) Desirable, undesirable and mixed
c) Good, prohibition and understanding
d) None of these
16. What are the causes for the accomplishment of action?
a) Body, soul and the various senses
b) Supersoul, soul, various senses, different kinds of endeavor and willpower
c) Body, soul, various senses, different kinds of endeavor and Supersoul
d) Soul, various senses, different kinds of endeavor and Supersoul
17. How that is a person in Krishna consciousness doesn’t suffer or enjoy the reactions of work?
a) Because he acts under the direction of the Supreme Lord Krishna
b) Because his every action is dependent on the supreme will, the Supreme Lord Krishna
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
18. What requires for the complete performance of both right and wrong action?
a) Five factors of action
b) The performer
c) The presence of Supersoul
d) Knowledge about the scriptures
a) Because these words were sounding different to Arjuna
b) Because he liked the renounce order of life
c) Because purpose of life is renunciation and attainment of transcendental position
d) Because this topic is subjective
2. Why is Krishna called as Hrishikesha ?
a) Because He is the master of the three worlds
b) Because He is the master of all senses
c) Because He is the master of all demigods
d) All of the above
3. Why Arjuna addresses Krishna as Keshi-nishudana?
a) Because Krishna killed the demon Keshi
b) Because Arjuna had doubts which were like demons
c) Because Arjuna wanted Krishna to clarify his doubts as Krishna killed the demon Keshi
d) All of the above
4. What is meant by the renounced order of life?
a) Giving up activities that are based on material desire
b) Giving up all activities
c) Performing severe austerities
d) Having all knowledge about the scriptures
5. What is meant by renunciation?
a) Giving up all activities
b) Giving up the results of all activities
c) Giving up desires
d) None of these
6. How many kinds of renunciation are there?
a) Thirty-two
b) Sixteen
c) Three
d) One hundred and eight
7. Is marriage ceremony considered as a sacrifice for advancing a human being to spiritual life?
a) Yes
b) No
8. Charity if given to suitable person, _________________ one’s heart.
a) Reads
b) Specifies
c) Activates
d) Purifies
9. Sacrifice, charity, penance should be performed without any expectation of _____________.
a) Work
b) Result
c) Recommendation
d) None of these
10. What among the following should be encouraged?
a) Sacrifices that purifies one’s existence
b) Everything leading to Krishna consciouness
c) Activities helping one in the discharge of devotional service to the Lord
d) All of the above
11. When is renunciation said to be in the mode of ignorance?
a) If one gives up his prescribed duties because of illusion
b) If one gives up his prescribed duties out of fear of bodily discomfort
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
12. What happens if a person renounces in the mode of passion?
a) He is always miserable
b) His consciousness advances
c) He never gets the result of renunciation
d) None of these
13. An intelligent renouncer in the mode of goodness
a) Hates inauspicious work
b) Attaches to auspicious work
c) Hates anything which troubles his body
d) None of these
14. How can one renounce the fruits of action?
a) By working for Krishna
b) By not enjoying the fruitive results himself
c) By offering everything to Krishna
d) All of these
15. What are the threefold fruits of action that accrue after death for those who are not renounced?
a) Desirable, suffering and work
b) Desirable, undesirable and mixed
c) Good, prohibition and understanding
d) None of these
16. What are the causes for the accomplishment of action?
a) Body, soul and the various senses
b) Supersoul, soul, various senses, different kinds of endeavor and willpower
c) Body, soul, various senses, different kinds of endeavor and Supersoul
d) Soul, various senses, different kinds of endeavor and Supersoul
17. How that is a person in Krishna consciousness doesn’t suffer or enjoy the reactions of work?
a) Because he acts under the direction of the Supreme Lord Krishna
b) Because his every action is dependent on the supreme will, the Supreme Lord Krishna
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
18. What requires for the complete performance of both right and wrong action?
a) Five factors of action
b) The performer
c) The presence of Supersoul
d) Knowledge about the scriptures
1. Who thinks himself to be the doer?
a) One who does not see the four material causes
b) One who does not see the Supreme
c) Both a & b
d) None of thee
2. Personal activity & responsibility arises from ________________ & _________________.
a) Consciousness, work
b) False ego, godlessness
c) Thought, endeavor
d) Action, intelligence
3. What are the impetuses for daily work?
a) Knowledge
b) The object of knowledge
c) The knower
d) All of these
4. __________________ is the center of all senses, and the object is _____________ itself.
a) Knowledge, knower
b) Mind, work
c) Inspiration, process
d) None of these
5. In accordance to what, are the kinds of knowledge, action, and the performers of action divided?
a) According to the three modes of material nature
b) According to the way of life
c) According to the knowledge one receives
d) Not divided at all
6. What is the characteristic of a person possessing knowledge in the mode of goodness?
a) He is always happy
b) He is self-satisfied
c) He sees one spirit soul in every living being
d) He receives knowledge after great austerities
7. Is consciousness temporary?
a) Yes
b) No
8. The knowledge concerned with only keeping the body comfortable, is said to be in the mode of __________________.
a) Ignorance
b) Passion
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
9. The action which is performed with great effort and false ego to gratify one’s desire is said to be action in the mode of _________________.
a) Ignorance
b) Passion
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
10. The action which is performed without future considerations, is impractical and based on violence is said to be in the mode of ________________.
a) Ignorance
b) Passion
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
11. A person who is equal to both happiness and distress is in the mode of __________________, while a person who is moved by both happiness and distress is in the mode of __________________.
a) Passion, ignorance
b) Goodness, ignorance
c) Goodness, passion
d) All of the above
12. What are the characteristics of a person who works against the injunctions of scriptures?
a) He is very materialistic
b) He is not very gentle and cheats others
c) He is very lazy and appears to be morose
d) All of the above
1. What are the characteristics of men of passionate understanding?
a) They accept irreligion as religion
b) They are misguided in all views & activities
c) They always take the wrong path
d) All of the above
2. What sort of determination is in the mode of goodness?
a) Its unbreakable
b) Its never deviated by any other activity
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
3. Which of the following can be called as determination under the mode of darkness?
a) Determination which is desirous for fruitive results
b) Determination which makes morose
c) Determination which is desirous of economic development
d) None of the above
4. What kind of persons experiences no happiness both in the beginning and at the end?
a) Persons in the mode of goodness
b) Persons in the mode of passion
c) Persons in the mode of ignorance
d) None of these
5. Who is freed from the three modes of material nature?
a) Living beings in this material world
b) Demigods in the higher planetary systems
c) Everyone
d) No-one
6. What are the qualities of a brahmana?
a) Self-control, austerity, purity, knowledge, honesty & resourcefulness
b) Self-control, austerity, purity, knowledge, wisdom, honesty & religiousness
c) Self-control, austerity, purity, knowledge, resourcefulness, determination & honesty
d) Self-control, austerity, purity, knowledge, leadership, honesty & power
1. Knowing ourselves to be the part and parcel of the Supreme Lord what is our duty towards Lord?
a) We should thank Lord
b) We should be engaged in the service of the Lord
c) We should be aware of everything
d) None of these
2. Being engaged in any occupation and serving the Lord, can one achieve the highest perfection?
a) Yes
b) No
3. On what basis should one decide his occupational duty?
a) On one’s personal gains
b) On one’s honesty
c) On one’s mode of nature
d) On one’s determination
4. Anything done for personal ____________________ is a cause of bondage.
a) Decision
b) Engagement
c) Sense-gratification
d) Sacrifice
5. What should be one’s approach towards the work one is performing born out of his nature but full of faults?
a) He should discontinue that kind of work
b) He should be determined to perform his work for the satisfaction of the Lord
c) He should take steps to purify himself
d) He should search for a uncontaminated work
6. What does real renunciation means?
a) To be austere so that one is freed from the reactions of one’s past sins
b) Not enjoying the results of his work
c) Working for the Lord to enjoy the results of his work
d) Both b & c
7. Who is elevated to the position of self-realization?
a) One who controls the tongue, body & mind, gives up objects of sense-gratification, freed from attachment and hatred
b) One who is without false ego, does not accept material things
c) One who is always in trance
d) All of the above
8. What does the word “brahma-bhutah” means?
a) Being one with the Absolute
b) Living entities
c) Living entities created by Lord Brahma
d) All transcendental
9. Why one who is transcendentally situated does attains pure devotional service?
a) Because he realizes the Supreme Brahman & is joyful
b) He neither laments or desires for anything
c) He is equal to all living beings
d) All of the above
10. How a personalist will describe himself in the ocean?
a) As the river flowing into the ocean
b) As an aquatic in the ocean
c) As a ship in the ocean
d) All of the above
11. How can one understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead?
a) By taking vedic knowledge under the guidance of an teacher
b) By becoming homogenous with the impersonal Brahman
c) By taking to pure devotional service under the guidance of a pure devotee
d) None of the above
12. The constitutional position of a living entity is to _________________.
a) Be learned
b) Serve the Lord
c) Be conscious
d) None of the above
13. The results of acting under the personal direction of Krishna when Krishna was present and acting under the guidance of the representative of Krishna when Krishna is not present, are the same?
a) Yes
b) No
14. What sort of duties among the following is considered in the devotional service of Krishna consciousness?
a) Acting for one’s own interests or gains
b) Working for the satisfaction of Krishna
c) Doing something whimsically & offering the result of that to Krishna
d) All of the above
15. A person not acting in Krishna consciousness loses himself in _____________________.
a) The fight
b) The material whirlpool
c) The fear
d) The prescribed duties
16. What happens if one does not act under the direction of Supreme Lord?
a) He will work according to his own interests
b) He declines the presence of the Lord
c) He will to compelled to act by the modes of nature in which he is situated
d) None of the above
1. All the activities of living entities are directed by the __________________.
a) Supersoul
b) Mind
c) Soul
d) Senses
a) One who does not see the four material causes
b) One who does not see the Supreme
c) Both a & b
d) None of thee
2. Personal activity & responsibility arises from ________________ & _________________.
a) Consciousness, work
b) False ego, godlessness
c) Thought, endeavor
d) Action, intelligence
3. What are the impetuses for daily work?
a) Knowledge
b) The object of knowledge
c) The knower
d) All of these
4. __________________ is the center of all senses, and the object is _____________ itself.
a) Knowledge, knower
b) Mind, work
c) Inspiration, process
d) None of these
5. In accordance to what, are the kinds of knowledge, action, and the performers of action divided?
a) According to the three modes of material nature
b) According to the way of life
c) According to the knowledge one receives
d) Not divided at all
6. What is the characteristic of a person possessing knowledge in the mode of goodness?
a) He is always happy
b) He is self-satisfied
c) He sees one spirit soul in every living being
d) He receives knowledge after great austerities
7. Is consciousness temporary?
a) Yes
b) No
8. The knowledge concerned with only keeping the body comfortable, is said to be in the mode of __________________.
a) Ignorance
b) Passion
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
9. The action which is performed with great effort and false ego to gratify one’s desire is said to be action in the mode of _________________.
a) Ignorance
b) Passion
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
10. The action which is performed without future considerations, is impractical and based on violence is said to be in the mode of ________________.
a) Ignorance
b) Passion
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
11. A person who is equal to both happiness and distress is in the mode of __________________, while a person who is moved by both happiness and distress is in the mode of __________________.
a) Passion, ignorance
b) Goodness, ignorance
c) Goodness, passion
d) All of the above
12. What are the characteristics of a person who works against the injunctions of scriptures?
a) He is very materialistic
b) He is not very gentle and cheats others
c) He is very lazy and appears to be morose
d) All of the above
1. What are the characteristics of men of passionate understanding?
a) They accept irreligion as religion
b) They are misguided in all views & activities
c) They always take the wrong path
d) All of the above
2. What sort of determination is in the mode of goodness?
a) Its unbreakable
b) Its never deviated by any other activity
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
3. Which of the following can be called as determination under the mode of darkness?
a) Determination which is desirous for fruitive results
b) Determination which makes morose
c) Determination which is desirous of economic development
d) None of the above
4. What kind of persons experiences no happiness both in the beginning and at the end?
a) Persons in the mode of goodness
b) Persons in the mode of passion
c) Persons in the mode of ignorance
d) None of these
5. Who is freed from the three modes of material nature?
a) Living beings in this material world
b) Demigods in the higher planetary systems
c) Everyone
d) No-one
6. What are the qualities of a brahmana?
a) Self-control, austerity, purity, knowledge, honesty & resourcefulness
b) Self-control, austerity, purity, knowledge, wisdom, honesty & religiousness
c) Self-control, austerity, purity, knowledge, resourcefulness, determination & honesty
d) Self-control, austerity, purity, knowledge, leadership, honesty & power
1. Knowing ourselves to be the part and parcel of the Supreme Lord what is our duty towards Lord?
a) We should thank Lord
b) We should be engaged in the service of the Lord
c) We should be aware of everything
d) None of these
2. Being engaged in any occupation and serving the Lord, can one achieve the highest perfection?
a) Yes
b) No
3. On what basis should one decide his occupational duty?
a) On one’s personal gains
b) On one’s honesty
c) On one’s mode of nature
d) On one’s determination
4. Anything done for personal ____________________ is a cause of bondage.
a) Decision
b) Engagement
c) Sense-gratification
d) Sacrifice
5. What should be one’s approach towards the work one is performing born out of his nature but full of faults?
a) He should discontinue that kind of work
b) He should be determined to perform his work for the satisfaction of the Lord
c) He should take steps to purify himself
d) He should search for a uncontaminated work
6. What does real renunciation means?
a) To be austere so that one is freed from the reactions of one’s past sins
b) Not enjoying the results of his work
c) Working for the Lord to enjoy the results of his work
d) Both b & c
7. Who is elevated to the position of self-realization?
a) One who controls the tongue, body & mind, gives up objects of sense-gratification, freed from attachment and hatred
b) One who is without false ego, does not accept material things
c) One who is always in trance
d) All of the above
8. What does the word “brahma-bhutah” means?
a) Being one with the Absolute
b) Living entities
c) Living entities created by Lord Brahma
d) All transcendental
9. Why one who is transcendentally situated does attains pure devotional service?
a) Because he realizes the Supreme Brahman & is joyful
b) He neither laments or desires for anything
c) He is equal to all living beings
d) All of the above
10. How a personalist will describe himself in the ocean?
a) As the river flowing into the ocean
b) As an aquatic in the ocean
c) As a ship in the ocean
d) All of the above
11. How can one understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead?
a) By taking vedic knowledge under the guidance of an teacher
b) By becoming homogenous with the impersonal Brahman
c) By taking to pure devotional service under the guidance of a pure devotee
d) None of the above
12. The constitutional position of a living entity is to _________________.
a) Be learned
b) Serve the Lord
c) Be conscious
d) None of the above
13. The results of acting under the personal direction of Krishna when Krishna was present and acting under the guidance of the representative of Krishna when Krishna is not present, are the same?
a) Yes
b) No
14. What sort of duties among the following is considered in the devotional service of Krishna consciousness?
a) Acting for one’s own interests or gains
b) Working for the satisfaction of Krishna
c) Doing something whimsically & offering the result of that to Krishna
d) All of the above
15. A person not acting in Krishna consciousness loses himself in _____________________.
a) The fight
b) The material whirlpool
c) The fear
d) The prescribed duties
16. What happens if one does not act under the direction of Supreme Lord?
a) He will work according to his own interests
b) He declines the presence of the Lord
c) He will to compelled to act by the modes of nature in which he is situated
d) None of the above
1. All the activities of living entities are directed by the __________________.
a) Supersoul
b) Mind
c) Soul
d) Senses
2. What happens if one surrenders unto the Supreme personality of Godhead?
a) One is relieved of all miseries
b) One attains the Supreme
c) One reaches the Supreme abode
d) All of the above
3. After explaining the most confidential knowledge, why does the Lord asks Arjuna to act according to his own wish?
a) Because the Lord doesn’t interfere with the little independence of the living entity
b) Because the Lord is not bothered by the decision of living entity as He being the most renounced person
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
4. What is the most confidential part of knowledge given by the Lord to Arjuna?
a) To become pure devotee of Krishna
b) To always think & act for Krishna
c) To be austere in all conditions of the life
d) Both a & b
5. What is the promise of Krishna to those who follow the confidential part of knowledge?
a) One will get all the comforts of life instantly
b) One will certainly go to the abode of Krishna
c) One’s austerity in life ends
d) One achieves victory in life
6. Why Krishna spoke this confidential part of knowledge to Arjuna?
a) As he was a kshatriya
b) As he was a noble man
c) As he was the dear friend of Krishna
d) None of the above
7. Can anyone following the path of Arjuna obtain the same perfection as Arjuna?
a) Yes
b) No
8. With ____________ & ___________ one should surrender unto Krishna.
a) Austerity, performance
b) Good performance, seriousness
c) Power, progress
d) Faith, love
9. Can anyone who is not free from all sinful reactions be freed, if he surrenders to Krishna?
a) No
b) Yes
10. Fearing to give up all religious forms and simply surrendering unto Krishna is an ______________ worry.
a) Understandable
b) Impersonal
c) Useless
d) Actual
11. To whom the confidential knowledge may not be told?
a) Those who are not austere
b) Those who are not devoted or engaged in devotional service of Krishna
c) Those who are envious of Krishna
d) All of the above
12. One who explains the supreme secret to the devotees, he is ____________ to Krishna.
a) Related
b) Dear
c) Whimsical
d) Offender
13. If Bhagavad-Gita is meant for the devotees of the Lord, then what explanation you will give for a situation when a devotee of Krishna holds an open class of Bhagavad-Gita where all are not expected to be devotees?
a) The devotee wants to tell others about his knowledge of Bhagavad-Gita
b) The devotee gives everyone a chance to become free from sinful reaction & to become a devotee of the Lord
c) The devotee wants to present himself before the audience
d) None of the above
14. Why was the Lord ready to re-explain any point or whole Bhagavad-Gita to Arjuna again?
a) Because the Lord wanted to inquire if Arjuna understood the Bhagavad-Gita completely
b) As the Lord was acting as a spiritual master to Arjuna so He wanted to make sure that Arjuna’s ignorance is dispelled
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
15. What is illusion?
a) Thinking oneself to be the master of the world besides being bound by one’s lust & desires
b) Thinking oneself to be important for not one is not worth
c) Thinking oneself to be bonded
d) None of the above
16.
How can one’s illusion be over?
a) By the mercy of the Lord
b) By the mercy of a pure devotee
c) Both a & b
d) By one’s own endeavor
17. What is the result, if illusion is over?
a) One becomes satisfied
b) One agrees to act in Krishna consciousness
c) One gets peace of mind
d) None of these
18. What was the effect on Arjuna after hearing Bhagavad-Gita from Krishna?
a) He became free from all illusion
b) He understood Krishna as the Supreme Personality of Godhead
c) He came to know the full knowledge & surrendered himself to Krishna
d) All of the above
19. Why Sanjaya addresses the conversation between Krishna & Arjuna as wonderful?
a) Because Supreme Personality of Godhead is speaking about Himself & His energies to Arjuna who is a great devotee of Lord
b) Because such a conversation never took place before & would not take place again
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
20. Is there a difference between hearing directly from Krishna & hearing directly from Krishna through a bona fide spiritual master?
a) No
b) Yes
21. What was the effect on Sanjaya after hearing Bhagavad-Gita?
a) He became a great scholar
b) He took pleasure and was thrilled & rejoicing at every moment
c) He took the renounce order of life
d) He became a great personality
a) By the mercy of the Lord
b) By the mercy of a pure devotee
c) Both a & b
d) By one’s own endeavor
17. What is the result, if illusion is over?
a) One becomes satisfied
b) One agrees to act in Krishna consciousness
c) One gets peace of mind
d) None of these
18. What was the effect on Arjuna after hearing Bhagavad-Gita from Krishna?
a) He became free from all illusion
b) He understood Krishna as the Supreme Personality of Godhead
c) He came to know the full knowledge & surrendered himself to Krishna
d) All of the above
19. Why Sanjaya addresses the conversation between Krishna & Arjuna as wonderful?
a) Because Supreme Personality of Godhead is speaking about Himself & His energies to Arjuna who is a great devotee of Lord
b) Because such a conversation never took place before & would not take place again
c) Both a & b
d) None of these
20. Is there a difference between hearing directly from Krishna & hearing directly from Krishna through a bona fide spiritual master?
a) No
b) Yes
21. What was the effect on Sanjaya after hearing Bhagavad-Gita?
a) He became a great scholar
b) He took pleasure and was thrilled & rejoicing at every moment
c) He took the renounce order of life
d) He became a great personality
22.
What was Sanjaya’s opinion after hearing Bhagavad-Gita?
a) His opinion was, that Arjuna is the supreme archer
b) His opinion was, that where Krishna & Arjuna are present there is all good fortune & victory
c) His opinion was, that Arjuna is a great renunciant
d) He had no opinion to give
23. What is the essence of the teachings of Bhagavad-Gita?
a) To become peaceful
b) To follow all the yoga-asana to reach the Supreme
c) To become well versed in the scriptures
d) To fully surrender unto Krishna
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a) His opinion was, that Arjuna is the supreme archer
b) His opinion was, that where Krishna & Arjuna are present there is all good fortune & victory
c) His opinion was, that Arjuna is a great renunciant
d) He had no opinion to give
23. What is the essence of the teachings of Bhagavad-Gita?
a) To become peaceful
b) To follow all the yoga-asana to reach the Supreme
c) To become well versed in the scriptures
d) To fully surrender unto Krishna
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