Multiple choice

Directions: Answer the given question based on the following passage:

There is no instance in history of a more marvellous and sudden up-surging of strength in a nation than modern Japan. There were several theories to account for the uprising, but the intellectual Japanese told us as to what were the fountains of that mighty awakening, the sources of that inexhaustible strength. They were drawn from religion. It was the Vedantic teachings of Oyomei and the recovery of Shintoism with its worship of the national Shakti of Japan in the image and person of the Mikado that enabled the little island empire to wield the stupendous weapons of Western knowledge and science with the same ease with which Arjun wielded the Gandiv.

What is the central idea of the passage?

  1. To show that Japan would not have progressed thus far if it had not relied on the teachings of the Vedas

  2. To demonstrate that the ease with which Arjun wielded Gandiv had no parallel

  3. To elucidate on how the Vedantic teachings helped Japanese master and control the weapons of Western knowledge and science

  4. To show the history of Japan is much like the history of ancient India

  5. To demonstrate that Japan owes much of its progress to Arjun who wielded Gandiv
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Explanation

The writer traces Japan's stupendous progress to their religious outlook whereby Vedantic teachings enabled them to acquire Western knowledge and science.

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