Paper 1 · Comprehension
Passage
The great Acharyas have said that everything discovered has a great goal; surrender yourself to that goal and act on it by 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 memory of past regrets or failures, or in the excitement of the present, but bring that entire energy, focused, into activity, that is, into the highest creative action in the world outside, whereby the individual who was till now considered the most inefficient finds his way to the highest achievement and success. This can be said very easily in a second. In order to train our mind to this attitude, considerable training is needed, because we have already trained our mind so wrongly that we have become perfect in imperfections. Not knowing the art of action, we have become master artists in doing wrong things, and the totality of such activity will indeed bring the country to a wrong end. If each individual 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 rights on the public roads. Then each car will necessarily dash against the other and there is bound to be chaos. There seems to be a very apt pattern of life that we are heading towards. Every one of us is a vehicle. We know how to go forward. The intellect is very powerful, and everybody is driving, but nobody knows how to control the mental energy and direct it properly or guide it to the proper destination.
The author's main focus in the passage is
AFinding out a worthy goal in life
BThe regulation of energy in proper channels ✓ Correct
CThe struggle for equal rights
DCar accidents due to a lack of driving skills
Correct answer: (B) The regulation of energy in proper channels — The author's main focus is the regulation of energy in proper channels, so that is the answer.
Explanation
★The author's main focus is the regulation of energy in proper channels, so that is the answer.
★The whole passage urges us to focus our energy and direct it rightly.
★It warns that undirected mental energy leads only to chaos.
★So the central concern is controlling and channelling energy properly.
★Finding a worthy goal is a means, not the main focus itself.
★Equal rights and car accidents are only used as an image, so the focus is the regulation of energy in proper channels.
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