​Class 10th English Chapter-15 A Great Son Of India Question Answer

​Class 10th English Chapter-15 A Great Son Of India Question Answer​

Class 10th English Chapter-15 A Great Son Of India

Comprehension Check

Q1. Who is the speaker?
Ans: Dr Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan is the speaker.

Q2. On what occasion does he speak?
Ans: He speaks on the occasion of a seminar organised for the honour of Swami Vivekananda’s 92nd birthday.

Q3. What does the ‘treasure of her past’ refer to?
Ans: The “treasure of her past” refers to India’s glorious heritage and tradition of the past.

Q4. Where did Vivekananda collect the treasure?
Ans: Vivekananda collected the treasure from the Indian scriptures and the life and sayings of his great religious reformer Shri Ramakrishna.

Q5.How are religion and  science interrelated?
Ans: Religion and science are interrelated because modem man must leam to live with religion with his intellectual conscience and the spirit of science.

Q6. Why should religion be the maintaining faith in democracy?
Ans:Religion should be the maintaining faith in democracy because religious beliefs must be justified and supported by reason.

Q7. What could be the reason for the eclipse of religion?
Ans: The reason for the eclipse of religion is that the professed religions are both unscientific and undemocratic.

Q8. What is the ultimate truth of life?
Ans: The ultimate truth of life is its transience.

Q9. How does time act as a powerful force?
Ans:Time acts as a powerful force because our acts and thoughts, our deeds of heroism, our political structures, birth and death are all ravaged (destroyed) by man.

Q10.What explanation of the fundamental problem is provided by the Upanisads?
Ans:[The question is wrong.]

Comprehension Check

Q1. What are the Vedas according to Vivekananda?
Ans: According to Vivekananda, the Vedas are the accumulated treasure of spiritual laws discovered by different persons in different times.

Q2. What is Yoga in his opinion?
Ans: In Vivekananda’s opinion, Yoga is personal change, adjustment and integration.

Q3. Which Yogas have been discussed by him in his writings?
Ans: Yogas like Jnana Yoga, Raja Yoga, Bhakti Yoga, and Karma Yoga have been discussed by Vivekananda in his writings.

Q4. What is secularism?
Ans: Secularism is giving equal treatment to all religions and avoidance of intolerance.

Q5. Which experience of Sri Ramakrishna does Vivekananda teach people?
Ans: Sharing Shri Ramakrishna’s experience, Vivekananda says, “We Hindus don’t merely tolerate. We unite ourselves with every religion, praying in the mosque of the Mohammedan, worshipping before the fire of the Zoroastrian and kneeling to the Cross of the Christian.

Q6. What are the abuses of religion?
Ans: The abuses of religion are insistence on touch ability and untouchability.

Q7. What is ‘Antar-Jyoti referred to in the text?
Ans: ‘Antar-Jyoti is the light which lightens every man that comes into the world.

Q8. What is the ultimate test of true religion?
Ans: The ultimate test of true religion is the recognition of truth and harmony with human beings.

Q9. What is necessary for creating the Ramrajya?
Ans: For creating Ramarajya we have to establish a spiritual religion which goes beyond our narrowed religious concept  and leads to the transformation of human society and brings it nearer to the Ramarajya.

D. WRITINGS

Q1. What made Dr Radhakrishnan think that the students were impressed and inspired?
Ans: Dr Radhakrishnan at first congratulated those who had won prizes or rewards for their achievements in recitation and speech competitions. The students who won the prizes and many others who competed for them had the great opportunity of reading some of the writings of Swami Vivekananda. This made Dr Radhakrishnan think that the students had been impressed and inspired by their ideals of Vivekananda.

Q2. How can we explain that Vivekananda was one of the leaders of the Indian Renaissance?
Ans: Vivekananda has impressed and inspired the students with his motivational writings. His life and teachings have prepared the Indians for the new age of freedom in which they live. His teachings inspire us on how best we can consolidate (strengthen) the freedom we have recently won. So it is said that Vivekananda was one of the leaders of the Indian Renaissance.

Q3. Why were the writings and speeches of Vivekananda very powerful?
Ans: Vivekananda like all the great preachers of India never professed to be the formulator of a new system of thought. He. instead, interpreted Indians religious consciousness and the treasures of India’s past for us and the world. His writings and speeches were very powerful. Because they were quotations from the famous Indian epics and the life and sayings of his great Master Sri Ramakrishna Paramhansa.

Q4.Why does the speaker consider ‘science and democracy as the dominant features of the modern world?
Ans: According to Radhakrishnan,  science and democracy are the two dominant features of the modem world. Modern man must learn to live with a religion which admires itself to his intellectual conscience and the spirit of science. Apart from this (iii), religion should be the sustaining faith of democracy or race.  Science flourishes (develops) under the shade (ii) of democracy and democracy is strengthened with the use of science for human progress.

Q5. What could be the reasons for this earth being unfit for human habitation?
Ans: The ultimate  fact of life is its transitoriness (ii). Everything in this world, be it the written word, or the painted picture. the carved stone, the heroic act has changed into nothingness. Many a civilization has cropped up and in the course of time has wiped out in the sands of time. These could be the reasons why our earth will be unfit for human habitation .

Q6. Why are the Vedas ever-expanding? And what is the light that lighteth every man?
Ans: In our views, the Vedas are merely  the registers of the spiritual experiences  of the great sages. Vivekananda says. “By the Vedas, no books are meant. They (the Vedas) mean the accumulated treasures of spiritual laws discovered by different persons in different times.” They are, therefore, ever-expanding.

Q7. How can religion lead to the transformation of human society?
Ans: As Indians, we have reaped several benefits from the teachings of Vivekananda. It is very necessary that we should all be interested in not only constructive work but become dedicated in our spirit of constructing a spiritual religion. It should be such religion that surpasses religious organisations and doctrinal  irrationalities and differences . Only then can this religion lead to the transformation of human society.

E. ACTIVITY

religion leads to the transformation of human society.

·         The class is divided into four or five groups.

·         Each group is asked to think of an activity, they would like to undertake as per the advice of Vivekananda.

·         Each group discusses among its members.

·         Each group presents its plan.

·         Other groups ask questions, interact and make suggestions.

The following may be written on the blackboard or the teacher may draw the learners’ attention to the text. “If we in our country are to profit by the teachings of Vivekananda, it is essential that we should all be interested in not only constructive work but become dedicated spirits, spirits dedicated to the task of establishing a spiritual religion which transcends ecclesiastical organisation and doctrinal sophistries and subtleties, a religion which leads to the transformation of human society and brings it nearer to the Ramrajya or the kingdom of God, which our prophets have set for us.”