Read the passage carefully and answer the question: ‘Being value-centred is…
2020
Read the passage carefully and answer the question:
‘Being value-centred is important to the experience of fulfilment in my life’: Here the thought has the stamp of the core concept of ‘value-centred’ and ‘fulfilment’. This is good. However, it has yet not moved into creative imagination of how this can be made possible in reality. Thus, it runs the risk of becoming an opinion or simply, a nice thought. ‘A value-centred life is tough in today’s world’. This thought formation could arise from a past experience where life was made difficult by being value-centred. Also, there could be stories and imagined scenarios being created in the mind, ‘what if...’, ‘what if not...’, etc. This could be related to the comfort-seeking nature of the senses and a part of the vital life-force that wants to take the easy way out. If one’s core essential concept is fulfilment, these imaginary formations can be halted and the thought can be frozen. Now one can note that without the clarity that the core principle is ‘fulfilment’, this imagination will often be allowed to fashion and complete its formation. This in turn, will affect the quality of our life and the choices made then may not serve the ‘fulfillment’ value of the individual. The idea force can use its sanctioning power to move those thought formations that are aligned to the core concept of ‘value-centred living’ and fulfilment and make still or reject those thought formations that fed by ‘fear’, ‘anxiety’, ‘desire for compromised quicker success’, etc. And if a value or ideal is not clear, it can reach back to the pure mind for further clarity’.
How can an individual move away from imaginary formations about value-centredness?
Answer: C. By being clear about fulfilment of life — Concept: In an inference-based reading-comprehension item, the correct answer restates the specific corrective mechanism the passage itself names for the…
- A.
By freezing one's own thoughts of good life
- B.
By having nice thoughts about values in life
- C.
By being clear about fulfilment of life
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By being fashionable about the core concept of life
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Correct answer: C
Concept: In an inference-based reading-comprehension item, the correct answer restates the specific corrective mechanism the passage itself names for the problem it describes — not a vague, emotionally appealing restatement of the problem’s cause or effect.
Application: The passage says that imaginary formations fed by “fear”, “anxiety” and the “desire for compromised quicker success” are halted and frozen only “if one’s core essential concept is fulfilment”, and that “without the clarity that the core principle is ‘fulfilment’, this imagination will often be allowed to fashion and complete its formation.” The remedy the passage itself names is therefore gaining clarity about what fulfilment means for oneself.
Cross-check against the other options:
“By freezing one’s own thoughts of good life” repeats the passage’s mention of a thought being frozen, but the passage presents that freezing as what follows once clarity about fulfilment is already held — not as the corrective act itself.
“By having nice thoughts about values in life” is the very outcome the passage cautions against: it says such a thought risks staying “an opinion or simply, a nice thought” that never moves into creative imagination of how it can be made possible in reality.
“By being fashionable about the core concept of life” introduces fashionability, an idea the passage never connects to values, imaginary formations, or their resolution.
So the passage’s own stated remedy for imaginary formations about value-centredness is being clear about the fulfilment of life.