CAT Question of the Day Answer the question based on the passage given below.
Like so many reform movements in the history of religion, the Buddha's teaching aimed at restoring the purity of an existing creed. The Buddha sought to strip the Upanishadic teachings of the corruptions that had enveloped them. Thus, he restored the ethical basis of the doctrines of karma and reincarnation, which the priests had made dependent on the performance of ritual rather than on moral behavior. He also repudiated the belief that only members of the Brahmin caste could attain release from the wheel of birth and rebirth, insisting that release was possible for everyone regardless of caste. Nor was there any place in his system for the popular gods of Hinduism. Thus, Buddhism became a movement separate from Hinduism. The Buddhists came to form two groups - monks and laity. The Buddha's close disciples, who included women as well as men, renounced the world, donned yellow robes, and lived for a part of the year in the world's first monastic communities, with staves and begging bowls as their only possessions. By means of a strict discipline of mind and body, they aspired to achieve "the supreme peace of nirvana" - release from the wheel of birth and rebirth. The literal meaning of nirvana is "to extinguish," and it refers to the extinguishing of desire, which feeds on sensual pleasures and is the cause of suffering. Nirvana is also a state of superconsciousness, attained by a type of yoga concentration in which the individual personality or ego dissolves and becomes united with the spirit of life, which the Buddha taught exists in all creatures. Which of the following inferences is/are supported by the passage? - What the Buddha taught was more a philosophy than a religion.
- The Buddha abolished the caste system.
- The tenets of Buddhism were similar to those of the Upanishads.
- Nirvana could be discovered by individual effort, without the need for priestly assistance.
Tip of the Day While calculating the ratio of two items, remove all the common terms, if any. For example, the ratio of circumference of two circles is equal to the ratio of the radii only; we can remove the common multiplier '2π' in the formula for circumference. Last year's Question of the day (01-May-13) All the 7-digit numbers containing each of the digits 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 exactly once, and not divisible by 5, are arranged in the increasing order. What is the 2000th number in this list?
| OPTIONS | | |  | 1) | 4315276 | | | 2) | 4315672 | | | 3) | 4315726 | | | 4) | None of these |
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