Module: | Kalam's Early Life & Maternal Lineage
Q23: Consider the following statements regarding the role of divine power in overcoming adversity, as stated by Kalam:
1. According to Kalam, the divine power has the ability to lift a person up from confusion, misery, melancholy, and failure.
2. Once a person is lifted from these negative states, the divine power guides them to their true place.
3. Kalam believed this spiritual guidance was exclusively reserved for those who abandoned their earthly professions to become ascetics.
Which of the above statements is/are correct?
2. Once a person is lifted from these negative states, the divine power guides them to their true place.
3. Kalam believed this spiritual guidance was exclusively reserved for those who abandoned their earthly professions to become ascetics.
Which of the above statements is/are correct?
✅ Correct Answer: A
🎯 Quick Answer:
Statements 1 and 2 are correct. The divine power lifts individuals from misery and guides them to their true place.Structural Breakdown: The process described is restorative: identifying the negative states (confusion, misery, melancholy, failure), applying the catalyst (divine power), and achieving the outcome (guidance to the true place). Historical/Related Context: Kalams own life experienced several setbacks (such as failing to become a fighter pilot), but he viewed these not as final failures, but as the divine power redirecting him to his true place in rocket science.
Causal Reasoning: Statement 3 is incorrect.
Kalam never suggests abandoning earthly professions; in fact, he found his true place by excelling in his earthly profession of science and technology.