Gita in Four Sutras - Session 2

1. What are different kinds of happiness which a living entity aspires for?

• Spiritual

• Intellectual

• Mental

• Physical

From where do we get true(Spiritual) happiness

• By watching thriller action movies

• By hankering for gulabjamun

• By getting 9.00 CPI in our college exams

• By Mantra Meditation, Associating with spiritually minded people.

How are human beings superior to animals?

• Because human beings have developed sophisticated method for getting physical, mental and intellectual happiness

• Because human beings are eating and sleeping inside self made strong home but animals have temporary accomodation.

• Because animals can relish spiritual happiness bu human beings can't

• Because human beings can inquire about spiritual truths(Who am I?, Why am I suffering?, What's my purpose?) while animals can't.

What is the criteria for considering a problem to be a real problem?

• A. It should be common to all

• B. Nobody wants it

• C. Everyone enjoys when such problem comes

• D. Nobody can avoid it

Which person can be said to be in knowledge according to (BG 13.8 to 13.12) ?

• A. Who considers I am this body not the spirit soul

• B. Who considers no girlfriend, no physique, no beauty as a Real Problem

• C. Who identifies birth, old age , death, disease as a Real Problem

• D. Who enjoys when he suffers from 4 real problems

Which miseries can come under adhyatmika klesa?

• A. After failing in exams, pondering upon the consequences of it

• B. Transmission of virus inside our body carried by Female Aedes mosquito

• C. Becoming frustrated on having a lot of work

• D. Coming of earthquake in IIT BHU

On what basis do spirit soul moves to another body at the time of death?

• Whichever body remains available, to that body soul transmigrates

• Whatever one remembers at the time of death and what kind of actions one has performed accordingly one gets a body.

• This is the only life and there is no concept of tranmigration

• Both (a) and (b)

Why are we (the spirit soul) suffering from such real problems and miseries?

• A. Because we are so much adventurous and thus we want such problems and miseries

• B. Because we have turned away from God and acting sinfully against the God's laws

• C. Because such problems are integral part of soul and thus wherever the soul will go he

  will face these problems.

• D. All of these

Which law of cosmic manifestation governs the result distribution for the various

activities of the people?

• A. Law of duality

• B. Law of voidness

• C. Law of Karma

• D. Law of oneness

Why Akarma (work done for the pleasure of Lord) is better than Karma in terms of

relieving us from the sufferings?

• A. Since, Akarma is done by the people who are monk and thus they do not have any

  responsibilities while the other people who do karma have to fulfill responsibilities

• B. By doing akarma one will not be bounded by the fruits of that karma and thus can easily

  transcend the sufferings.

• C. Law of karma is a superstition otherwise why bad things are happening to good people

• D. Both (a) and (b)