IBPS Clerk Practice Set in Hindi {Prelims}
Question - 1
Directions (Q. Nos. 1-6) : Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions given below it. Certain words have been given in bold to help you to locate them while answering some of the questions.
If we understood that every word, thought and action was a prayer sent right to God, a request sent right to the Heavens, I believe we would change much of what we think, say, and do. Further, I believe we would better understand why our more formalised prayers seem to be answered only sporadically, if at all.
For here is what really happens. In our formalised prayers, we seek God's intercession or intervention in our affairs, hoping that God will somehow alter or create something for us. Yet these formal prayers only take a moment or two each day, or for some, each week. The rest of our time probably 95 to 99 per cent is spent sending, often times unwittingly, prayers to God that work exactly in the opposite direction of our formal prayers. So, we pray for one thing and we go out and do another. Or we pray for one thing and we go out and think another. Let me give you a typical example. We may pray for greater abundance in our life, or for help with a financial problem. Those prayers are earnestly offered, earnestly said, and ...(1)... sent to God during our formal, ritualised time for prayer. Then for the rest of the week we go around harbouring thoughts of insufficiency, saying words of insufficiency and demonstrating insufficiency in the every day actions of our lives. So, 95 per cent of the time we send prayers that affirm we don't have enough and 5 per cent of the time we ask God to bring us enough. It is very difficult for the universe to grant us our wishes when 95 per cent of the time we are, in fact, asking for something else.
This is the single most misunderstood aspect of prayer in our human experience. This truth is that the universe is a giant Xerox, sending us, all the time, the answer to our prayers. And we are, in fact, sending prayers to the universe all the time, from morning till night, from birth till death.
Only when we are willing to accept that our words are creative, our thoughts are creative, and our actions are creative, could this be attractive. Many are unwilling to accept this as truth because they are not very proud of the majority of their thoughts, words and actions and certainly don't want them to be considered actual requests to God. And yet they are. The injunction then is to speak, think, and act in a way of which we can be proud in a way that sends to God our grandest thoughts, and produces our highest visions and thus, creates Heaven on Earth for all of us.
When we become consciously aware of this and when we accept this truth with joy, our entire lives change -sometimes, virtually overnight and other times more slowly and subtly. When we accept this truth, we suddenly understand that God is our best friend and has given us tools of unlimited power to create the reality we seek to experience.
Question-1 : According to the passage, our prayers could be effective when we