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’.
The thought of value-based life as tough can be attributed to
(A) being value-centred
(B) past experiences of difficulty
(C) wild imaginations
(D) the inclination to be in a comfort zone
Choose the correct option :
- A.
(A) and (B)
- B.
(B) and (D)
- C.
(B) and (C)
- D.
(C) and (D)
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Correct answer: B
In passage-based inference or attribution questions, the valid answer must be built only from causes the author explicitly states or directly links to the stated effect — not from every idea the passage happens to mention, and never by restating the effect's own subject as though it were a cause of itself.
Here the effect being explained is the belief that 'a value-centred life is tough.' The passage names two causes for this belief: (B) a past experience where being value-centred made life difficult, and (D) the comfort-seeking nature of the senses — the vital life-force wanting the easy way out. The passage also mentions imagined 'what if...what if not...' scenarios (C), but frames these as something the comfort-seeking drive (D) gives rise to, not as an independent cause in its own right. (A) being value-centred is simply the subject of the belief being explained, not a reason offered for why it feels tough.
(A) + (B): pairs the belief's own subject with only one of the two stated causes.
(B) + (D): pairs both of the causes the passage independently states for the belief.
(B) + (C): pairs one stated cause with the dependent mental activity the passage attributes to the other cause.
(C) + (D): pairs the dependent mental activity with the cause that the passage says gives rise to it.
Only the pairing of the two independently stated causes, (B) and (D), fully accounts for the passage's explanation of why a value-centred life can feel tough.