Multiple choice

Directions: Read the paragraph and answer the question that follows.

When you take a fish out of the ocean and throw it on the bank – the misery and the suffering and the torture and the hankering and the effort to reach back to the oceans because it is where the fish belongs. Any suffering is simply indicative that you are not in communion with existence that the fish is not in the ocean. When a dewdrop slips from a lotus leaf into the ocean it does not find that it is part of the ocean, it finds it is the ocean. And to find it is the ultimate goal, the ultimate realization. There is nothing beyond it. I don’t want anybody to stand between the individual and existence.

You are here, every individual is here, and the whole existence is available.

According to you, what is the theme of the passage?

  1. Death is the truth of life.

  2. We suffer when we are not in tune with ourselves.

  3. When we are not in meditation, we are separated from our existence and that is our suffering.

  4. None of these

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Two examples – “Fish” and “dew drops” – cited here support the theme of the passage, i.e. when we meditate, all the barriers of thoughts, emotions and sentiments drop and we feel ourselves in tune with whole; not only in tune, we become whole. In this light, (1) is ruled out. Of (2) and (3), (2) seems to denote half truth. Hence, (3) is the answer.

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