Below are two statements (A) and (B) in the context of Shri Narayan Guru. (A)…
2024
Below are two statements (A) and (B) in the context of Shri Narayan Guru.
(A) He held that all human beings belong to a single common caste.
(B) He inspired all of them to have faith in all gurus.
Choose the correct option:
- A.
Both (A) and (B) are true
- B.
Both (A) and (B) are false
- C.
(A) is true but (B) is false
- D.
(A) is false but (B) is true
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Correct answer: C
Colonial-era socio-religious reform movements (Brahmo Samaj, Arya Samaj, and Kerala's SNDP Yogam among them) challenged caste hierarchy by asserting that all human beings belong to a single common community deserving equal treatment. Many of these reformers also stressed direct self-inquiry and inner realization of truth over blind faith placed in external religious authorities.
Sree Narayana Guru, founder of the SNDP Yogam and the Sivagiri Ashram in Kerala, is best known for the teaching "Oru Jathi, Oru Matham, Oru Daivam Manushyanu" — "One caste, one religion, one God for mankind." This directly supports statement (A): he advocated equality of all people within a single community, dissolving caste-based distinctions. His broader philosophy, however, centred on self-realization and rational self-inquiry ("know thyself") as the route to truth — not on urging followers to place faith in every guru. So statement (B) does not hold.
Both (A) and (B) true — requires (B) to also hold, which his philosophy does not support.
Both (A) and (B) false — requires (A) to be false, which contradicts his own founding teaching of equality.
(A) false, (B) true — inverts both claims against the historical record.
(A) true, (B) false — matches both his social-equality teaching and his self-realization emphasis.
Since (A) holds and (B) does not, the correct combination is "(A) is true but (B) is false" — consistent with the official CTET July 2024 Paper-II answer key and independent accounts of Guru's teachings.