1. Sri Aurobindo (born Aurobindo Ghose; 15 August 1872 – 5 December 1950) was an Indian philosopher, yoga guru, maharishi, poet, and Indian nationalist. He was also a journalist, editing newspapers like ____ ?
A:) Bande Mataram
B:) Jai Hindh
C:) Hindustan Times
D:) Dainik Bhaskar
springline- Correct option: A:) Bande Mataram
2. Sri Aurobindo joined the Indian movement for independence from British colonial rule, till 1910 was one of its influential leaders and then became a spiritual reformer, introducing his visions on human progress and _____?
A:) Political Evolution
B:) social evolution
C:) spiritual evolution
D:) Poetical Terms
springline- Correct option: C:) spiritual evolution
3. Aurobindo studied for the Indian Civil Service at King's College, Cambridge, England. After returning to India he took up various civil service works under the Maharaja of the Princely state of Baroda and became increasingly involved in nationalist politics in the Indian National Congress and the nascent revolutionary movement in _______?
A:) Bengal
B:) Calcutta
C:) Delhi
D:) Mumbai
springline- Correct option: A:) Bengal
4. Thought the Paraclete is a mystic poem which opens up a vision or revelation of an ascent through spiritual planes. It may lend itself to a descriptive interpretation or help the emergence of a general idea but what is really important in it is the vision, what one can apprehend through intuitive perception rather than through explanation of_______?
A:) realism
B:) logical
C:) illusion
D:) spiritual
springline- Correct option: B:) logical
5. Thought the Paraclete : If poetry has its origin in a spiritual experience, it has to be perceived only intuitively. The title of the poem: ‘Paraclete’ means „one who intercedes on behalf of another, an advocate, ______?
A:) a critic
B:) attacker
C:) a defender
D:) believer
springline- Correct option: C:) a defender
6. Thought the Paraclete ; Who has observed, the central idea of the poem is the transformation of the self brought about as a result of the ascent of consciousness to the supramental level and This idea is suggested by the imagery and the music rather than explained in terms of logical argument ?
A:) R.K. Narayan
B:) Shashi Tharoor
C:) Amirtav Ghose
D:) Dr. Iyengar
springline- Correct option: D:) Dr. Iyengar
7. Thought the Paraclete ; For instance, close attention to the imagery, its movement and the colour scheme in the poem will help one kind of response. The title of the poem: ‘Paraclete’ means „one who intercedes on behalf of another, an advocate, a defender’. It is the title given to the Holy Ghost in (John XIV, 16, XVI 7) Which gives the meaning that it is the mediator between the human and the divine?
A:) poetry
B:) spiritual
C:) Bible
D:) Bhagavad Gita
springline- Correct option: C:) Bible
8. Thought the Paraclete; In Sri Aurobindonian metaphysics ―thought itself is such a mediator. Man is the ‘Mediator’ between Matter and Spirit and man is distinguished by his thought. Thought: Thought in this poem has a very wide significance, for it stands not only for cognition but the faculty of perception which in Indian parlance is denoted by chit or_______?
A:) realism
B:) consciousness
C:) truth
D:) seriousness
springline- Correct option: B:) consciousness
9. Thought the Paraclete; According to Aurobindo, consciousness becomes the medium as well as the mediator for the yogic evolution leading to the higher levels of Consciousness and Being. Consciousness, as explained by Aurobindo in his Life Divine, progresses from Mind to Supermind passing through four stages or levels, namely Highermind, Illumined Mind, Overmind and______?
A:) Illusion
B:) Intention
C:) consciousness
D:) Intuition
springline- Correct option: D:) Intuition
10. Thought the Paraclete ; Thought is described as leaving behind earth conscious-ness and flying into the vasts of God passing over the seas of life and skies of the mystic mind — like an archangel flying in a ______?
A:) desire
B:) bird
C:) sky
D:) dream
springline- Correct option: D:) dream
11. Thought the Paraclete ; Green crests of the sea of life: the green colour symbolizes the vital forces and the light of emotions. The aspiring individual self struggles in the immensities of the spirit. Orange skies: Orange symbolizes a desire for a union with _______?
A:) the divine
B:) truth
C:) happiness
D:) realism
springline- Correct option: A:) the divine
12. Thought the Paraclete; The skies of the mystic mind are therefore said to be orange in colour. The human consciousness has its own limitations caught as it is in the mesh of ignorance and the mechanical laws of Prakriti or________?
A:) truth
B:) nature
C:) spiritual
D:) Thought
springline- Correct option: B:) nature
13. Thought the Paraclete; Sleepless wide great glimmering. wings of mind…Drew its vague heart- yearning with voices sweet: This second movement delineates the next stage in the upward progress of consciousness, which moves on from the Higher Mind to the Overmind crossing______?
A:) the Illumined Mind
B:) the happy mind
C:) the intution mind
D:) Illustion
springline- Correct option: A:) the Illumined Mind
14. Thought the Paraclete; Sleepless wide… vanishing ends: These lines represent the first stage of this movement from the Higher mind to the Illumined Mind. The wings of wind, that is the soaring spiritual aspiration, carry the spirit which is on its quest, sleepless and _________?
A:) thoughtless
B:) restless
C:) stressful
D:) darkness
springline- Correct option: B:) restless
15. Thought the Paraclete ; Gold-red: Signifies the radiance of the supernature in the physical.Space and Time’s mute vanishing ends: It have here the image of a wanderer who is relentlessly searching for the goal breaking even the vital limitations imposed by space and time. The Higher Mind is ―No longer of mingled light and obscurity of half-light but a large clarity of the________?
A:) thought
B:) soul
C:) Spirit
D:) conscious
springline- Correct option: C:) Spirit
16. Thought the Paraclete ; The face lustred, pale-blue-lined summits of timeless being gleamed: The face of the soul is gleaming in the radiance like the face of a solitary hermit (Eremite) who dares to explore the unexplored and unchartered ways to enter the visionary realms. The illumined mind is no longer a mind of higher thought but a mind illumined by ____?
A:) positive mind
B:) thoughtful light
C:) serious mind
D:) spiritual light
springline- Correct option: D:) spiritual light
17. Thought the Paraclete; Though Whose thought Sri Aurobindo's thoughts were betrayed by some of his followers and that some works published under his name were not authentic, since not traditional?
A:) Ruskin Bond
B:) Rene Guenon
C:) Salman Rushdie
D:) R.K. Narayan
springline- Correct option: B:) Rene Guenon
18. Thought the Paraclete ; Which is the word carries with it associations of brightness and splendour, for the sun who is the visible form of righteousness is believed to have taken the form of a horse to find his wife Samjna who had taken the shape of Asvini ?
A:) Aphrodite
B:) Hipprogriff
C:) Hera
D:) Hermes
springline- Correct option: B:) Hipprogriff
19. Thought the Paraclete; Which is in the mystic colour-scheme symbolises the light of higher knowledge and When this stage is reached in the illu-mined mind the world below becomes a blurred picture ?
A:) purple
B:) orange
C:) pale-blue
D:) indigo
springline- Correct option: C:) pale-blue
20. Thought the Paraclete; Seen from that vantage height, the world (Both physically and figuratively) becomes hazy and blurred or even dark. It seems like an abyss When Consciousness soars to higher realms, the vital con-sciousness left below becomes ________ ?
A:) dark
B:) vanished
C:) colourful
D:) shine
springline- Correct option: A:) dark
21. At Pondicherry, Sri Aurobindo developed a spiritual practice he called Integral Yoga. The central theme of his vision was the evolution of human life into a divine life in divine body. When with the help of his spiritual collaborator, Mirra Alfassa (referred to as ‘The Mother’), Sri Aurobindo Ashram was founded in_________?
A:) 1922
B:) 1924
C:) 1926
D:) 1928
springline- Correct option: C:) 1926
22. Sri Aurobindo His influence has been wide-ranging. In India, S. K. Maitra, Anilbaran Roy and D. P. Chattopadhyaya commented on Sri Aurobindo's work. Writers on esotericism and traditional wisdom, such as Mircea Eliade, Paul Brunton, and Rene Guenon, all saw him as an authentic representative of the _____?
A:) Indian spiritual tradition
B:) Indian Religious Poetry
C:) Indian Poetry
D:) Literary club
springline- Correct option: A:) Indian spiritual tradition
23. Sri Aurobindo influenced to Whom he take an initiative of dedicating to Indian National Movement full-time and also who writes, ‘The illustrious example of Arabindo Ghosh looms large before my vision. I feel that I am ready to make the sacrifice which that example demands of me’?
A:) Indira Gandhi
B:) Nehru
C:) Subhash Chandra Bose
D:) Ambedkar
springline- Correct option: C:) Subhash Chandra Bose
24. Jean Gebser acknowledged Sri Aurobindo's influence on his work and referred to him several times in his writings. Thus, in The Invisible Origin he quotes a long passage from The Synthesis of_______?
A:) Yoga
B:) poetry
C:) philosophy
D:) spiritualism
springline- Correct option: A:) Yoga
25. Ken Wilber has called Sri Aurobindo ‘India's greatest modern philosopher sage’ and has integrated some of his ideas into his philosophical vision. Wilber's interpretation of Aurobindo has been criticised by Rod Hemsell. Ken Wilber Who is a______?
A:) Indian Philosopher
B:) American Critic
C:) American philosopher
D:) Indian Critic
springline- Correct option: C:) American philosopher
26. Who was a leading exponent of Sri Aurobindo's Philosophy, has referred to the issue of external influences and written that Sri Aurobindo does not mention names, but ‘as one reads his books one cannot fail to notice how thorough is his grasp of the great Western philosophers of the present age ?
A:) Samit Basu
B:) Sisir Kumar Maitra
C:) Bankim Chandran
D:) Amitav Ghosh
springline- Correct option: B:) Sisir Kumar Maitra
27. In his writings, talks, and letters Sri Aurobindo has referred to several European philosophers with whose basic concepts he was familiar, commenting on their ideas and discussing the question of affinity to his own line of thought. Thus, he wrote a long essay on the Greek philosopher Heraclitus and mentioned especially Plato, Plotinus, Nietzsche and _______?
A:) Bergson
B:) John Dewey
C:) William James
D:) John Rawls
springline- Correct option: A:) Bergson
28. Who has discussed this subject comprehensively in a comparative study also Who writes that Sri Aurobindo ‘has appropriated Hegel’s notion of an Absolute Spirit and employed it to radically restructure the architectonic framework of the ancient Hindu Vedanta system in contemporary terms.?
A:) Robert Nozick
B:) Steve Odin
C:) Richard Rorty
D:) John Dewey
springline- Correct option: B:) Steve Odin
29. Sri Aurobindo died on 5 December 1950.. National and international newspapers commemorated his death. Sri Aurobindo was nominated twice for the Nobel prize without it being awarded, in 1943 for the Nobel award in Literature and When he was awarded the Nobel award in Peace?
A:) 1945
B:) 1946
C:) 1948
D:) 1950
springline- Correct option: D:) 1950
30. Who believes that he was ‘in some way brought into the extremely powerful spiritual field of force radiating through Sri Aurobindo and In his title Asia Smiles Differently he reports about his visit to the Sri Aurobindo Ashram and meeting with the Mother whom he calls an exceptionally gifted person ?
A:) Cornel West
B:) Thomas Kuhn
C:) Gebser
D:) Saul Kripke
springline- Correct option: C:) Gebser