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SHRIMAD BHAGVAD GITA-A JAIN PERSPECTIVE
the reply of Lord Krishna though with great details.It is contained in verses 55 to 72.
The lord begins with 55 by stating that when one thoroughly dismisses all cravings and is satisfied by seeking comfort in the Self (Atman) only, he can be said to have achieved the stature of a “Sthitaprajna”. This is exactly what Jainism pleads when it says “Appa Katta Vikatta Ya Duhana Ya Suhana Ya, Appa Mitamamittam Cha Dupatthiya Supatthiyo”. Meaning: “Soul the author of its own miseries and happiness is its own friend and foe and the maker of all good and bad deeds.”
Thereafter verses 56 to 59 describe how, with equanimity and evenness of mind a person who is a Sthitaprajna behaves in the events of pleasure and pain, how he is not over taken by anger, attachments and fear, how he neither praises nor hates, how he withdraws his physical senses like a tortoise and how sense objects do not attract him.
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