The great Acharyas have said that having discovered a great goal, surrender yourself to that goal and act towards it drawing your inspiration from that goal whereby you will get a new column of energy. Do not allow this energy to be dissipated in the futile memories of the past regrets or failures, nor in the imagined sorrow of the future, nor in the excitement of the present. And thus bring that entire energy focussed into activity. That is the highest creative action in the world outside. Thereby the individual who is till now considered most inefficient finds his way to the highest achievement and success.
This is said very easily in a second. But in order to train our mind to this attitude it needs considerable training because we have already trained the mind wrongly to such an extent that we have become perfect in imperfections. Not knowing the art of action, we have been master artists in doing the wrong thing, the totality of activity will bring the country to a wrong end indeed.
If each one is given a car, to achieve an ideal socialistic pattern and nobody knows driving but everybody starts driving, what would be the condition on the road? Everybody has equal right on the public road. Then each car must necessarily dash against the other, and there is bound to be a jumble. This seems to be the very pattern of life that we are heading towards. Everyone of us is a vehicle. We know how to go forward. The point is, intellect is very powerful and everyone is driving but nobody seems to know how to control the mental energy and direct it properly or guide it to its proper destination.
The author's chief concern is :
A. Establishment of a socialistic pattern
B. Discovery of a great goal in life
C. Regulation of energy in a proper direction
D. Struggle for equal rights
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → C only
The whole passage is about mental energy and its direction: do not waste it on past regrets or imagined future sorrows, bring it fully into activity, and learn to "control the mental energy and direct it properly". The closing image of drivers who do not know how to drive makes the same point.
A. Establishment of a socialistic pattern — Incorrect.
- Too narrow: the "ideal socialistic pattern" appears only inside the car example.
- It illustrates the danger of energy without control and is not the author's concern.
B. Discovery of a great goal in life — Incorrect.
- Wrong focus: the goal is the starting point, but the author's attention is on what happens to the energy that the goal releases.
C. Regulation of energy in a proper direction — Correct.
- This is the central idea from the first line to the last: energy must be focused and guided "to its proper destination".
D. Struggle for equal rights — Incorrect.
- Misread: "Equal right on the public road" is again part of the car example.
- The passage does not discuss any struggle for rights.
Tip: In this question the options do not follow the order of the statements (Option 1 = B only, Option 2 = C only, Option 3 = D only, Option 4 = A only). NTA often jumbles the options in this way, so after finding the correct statement, read the options carefully and mark the one with the right letter.