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SHRIMAD BHAGVAD GITA-A JAIN PERSPECTIVE
(5) Verses 54 to 72 explain how one can attain the status of a Sthitaprajna (a person of steady wisdom) and how a person who has attained that status reacts to the problems of life.
The question is what is the Jain perception of the teachings contained in these verses.
As noted above the second group of verses 11 to 30 discuss the distinction between the soul and non-soul i.e. the body. Verse 11 therefore starts by pointing out to Arjuna that though he was uttering the words of wisdom he was in fact expressing regrets for the loss of things, which did not deserve any regrets.
The Lord further pointed out to Arjuna that it is not as if He Himself (Krishna) or Arjuna or the Kings, who had gathered there to fight,never existed before, nor that all of them would not exist in future, because all of them were subject to birth, death and rebirth, the process of which was subject to the same change of evolution which is found when human body undergoes changes from young
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