umeshpatil wrote:
Attaining self control is the ultimate challenge for anyone. One who controls his mind controls everything else.The first and the most elusive step in accomplishing this objective is the recognition of its truth.The pressures and temptations of the world are generally strong enough to blind one to this truth though a very few manage to see through them.
Which one of the following can be inferred from the above passage?
A. Control over mind is self sustaining after a certain point
B. Control of mind is not difficult for everyone
C. Attempting self control is a self defeating objective
D. Control over everything is the ultimate challenge for anyone
E. Pressures and temptations of the world are numerous
The objective here is attaining self control and the truth of this objective or purpose of self control is to control everything.The clue to answering this question is the underlined words in the following sentence: The first and the
most elusive step in accomplishing this objective is the recognition of its truth. That means once the first hurdle is crossed which is recognizing that by self control you can control everything, the other hurdles to self control can definitely be crossed. That is, the first step is responsible for making the subsequent steps happen and therefore the process sustains itself.
As an elaboration consider that you consider that self control is very important and needs to be attained. That is the most difficult step. Once you clear that you take steps to control your mind since you recognize its importance and you can achieve the objective because the subsequent steps are less difficult to achieve. It is a complicated way of saying that once you consider an objective important and needs to be achieved, that being the most difficult task in the accomplishment of the objective, the objective will be achieved by the recognition of its importance.