Bhagavad Gita CHAPTER 02 (a) {Text 1-15}
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
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
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