Multiple choice

Directions: The last sentence in the following passage has been deleted. Select the sentence, out of the available options, that best suits the end of the passage.

Zen Yoga is 'not administered in an artificial condition but in actual life of daily living in this world' (Asher 1989:189). Herman Hess's (1971) Siddhartha gets his vision of Buddha and of Truth by reflecting on his turbulent and unconventional life and sensitizing himself to the deep murmurings of a running forest river. Articulated in words, his conclusion, 'love humanity, seems trivial. But as a process of psychological adaptation, profound changes are recorded in him.

  1. Buddha is the process of total metamorphosis from a mundane existence to a divine existence.

  2. Only that this psychological adaptation is not visible to ordinary mortals like us.

  3. These profound changes influence the very approach and attitude towards life.

  4. Not words and ideas but processes are shown to be the true stuff of ethical development.

  5. The turbulence now changes into serenity.
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D Correct answer
Explanation

 The words seem trivial, but the changes are profound. The idea is continued in (4), which is most logical extension of the preceding line. Hence it is our correct answer.

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