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SHRIMAD BHAGVAD GITA-A JAIN PERSPECTIVE
Parshvanath and Mahavira, Bodhistwas such as Gautam Buddha, political revolutionists like Gandhi and Lenin, thinkeras like Lao-tse and Confucius, prophets like Jesus and Mohammad the advent of all them goes to show that whenever the concerned human society has reached the Zenith of its depravity, the social forces automatically so work out that they generate antidotes to establish proper balance something akin to the philosophy of the German philosopher Hegel's theory of “Thesis, anti thesis and synthesis”. This chapter also refers to Karma-Sanyas i.e. absence of Karma (action). However, the reality of life's existence is that so long as one is alive he cannot avoid actions and if all actions good or bad do re: ult in reactions with equal force and vitality, the result is that one's soul is constantly creating all types of bondages. If this is so, the problem is how to get out of this bondage. There must be some way out to get full freedom. This chapter provides satisfactory
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