The excerpt above best reflects which of the following religious propositions?

(A) Hindus should give up their faith in favor of Buddhism. (B) Individual responsibility, not priestly authority, brings about spiritual evolution. (C) One lifetime is enough to extinguish one’s soul after death. (D) One’s status in the Hindu caste system cannot be altered.Explanation: (B) This text metaphorically describes an individual assuming personal control over his or her spiritual destiny. The phrase “that place from whence he is not born again” refers to liberation from the cycle of life, death, and rebirth in which Hindus and Buddhists both believe; no rejection of Buddhism is called for here, and while the text assures the reader that spiritual release can come through one’s own actions, it does not promise it after only one lifetime. Although Hindu scriptures justify the caste system (as in D), that is not the subject of this text.