Directions (Questions 83-87): Read the given passage carefully and answer the questions that follow.
One may look at life, events, society, history, in another way. A way which might, at a stretch, be described as the Gandhian way, though it may be from times before Mahatma Gandhi came on the scene. The Gandhian reaction to all grim poverty, squalor and degradation of the human being would approximate to effort of self-change and self- improvement to a regime of living regulated by discipline from within. To change society, the individual must first change
himself. In this way of looking at life and society, words too begin to mean differently. Revolution, for instance, is a term frequently used, but not always in the sense it has been in the lexicon of the militant. So also with words like peace and struggle. Even society may mean differently, being some kind of organic entity for the militant, and more or less a sum of
individuals for the Gandhian. There is yet another way, which might for want of a better description, be called the mystic. The mystic’s perspective measures these concerns that transcend political ambition and the dynamism of the reformer, whether he be militant or Gandhian. The mystic measures the terror of not knowing the remorseless march of time; he
seeks to know what was before birth, what comes after death? The continuous presence of death, of the consciousness of death, sets his priorities and values, militants and Gandhians, kings and prophets must leave all that they have built; all that they have unbuilt and depart when messengers of the buffalo riding Yama come out of the shadows . Water will to water, dust to dust. Think of impermanence. Everything passes.
83.. The Gandhian reaction of poverty is
(a) a regulated distribution of wealth
(b) self abnegation
(c) self-discipline
(d) a total war on poverty
