Read the passage carefully and answer the question: ‘Being value-centred is…
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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 are 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’.
What is the assertion of the author of the passage?
- A.
value-centred life is an unclear thought
- B.
The principle of value-centredness is a difficult proposition to achieve
- C.
Many factors aligned with value-centredness are negative in character
- D.
Today's world is not for any value system
Show answer & explanation
Correct answer: B
Concept
In an author-assertion question, identify the proposition the passage develops across its full reasoning, not merely a sentence it quotes.
A sound paraphrase preserves both scope and direction: it must distinguish the author's central claim from examples, imagined obstacles, and absolute overstatements.
Application
The opening says the value-centred ideal already bears the core concepts of value and fulfilment, but it has not yet moved into a creative picture of how it can be realized in life.
The passage then examines the thought that such living is tough. Past hardship, comfort-seeking, and imagined fear do not prove that the ideal is false; they show the practical thought-formations that can prevent a clear ideal from becoming lived conduct.
Clarity about fulfilment must halt those formations, while the idea-force must sanction thoughts aligned with the ideal and reject fear, anxiety, and compromised quick success. This active discrimination makes practical realization demanding even when the core principle is understood.
Contrast
“value-centred life is an unclear thought” confuses the undeveloped plan of realization with the core idea itself, which the opening describes as conceptually stamped and clear.
“Many factors aligned with value-centredness are negative in character” reverses the relationship: the negative formations are to be stilled or rejected, not treated as defining elements of the ideal.
“Today's world is not for any value system” expands a difficulty about realizing one ideal into an unsupported absolute claim about every value system.
Result
Among the offered readings, the passage therefore supports “The principle of value-centredness is a difficult proposition to achieve”: the difficulty lies in carrying a clear principle into life while governing competing thought-formations.