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SHRIMAD BHAGVAD GITA-A JAIN PERSPECTIVE
"Having attained Me, these great souls do not take birth again - the birth which is transitory and abode of misery. They thus reach the highest perfection"- 15
आब्रहाभुवनाल्लोकाः पुनरावर्तिनोऽर्जुन । मामुपेत्य तु कौन्तेय पुनर्जन्म न विद्यते ॥ १६ ॥
"All the worlds right from the world of Brhma are subject to rebirth , but one who reaches Me has no rebirth O, Arjuna."-16
सहस्त्रयुगपर्यन्तमहर्यबहाणो विदुः ।। रात्रिं युगसहस्त्रां तां तेऽहोरात्रविदो जनाः ॥ १७ ॥ अव्यक्ताद्व्यक्तयः सर्वाः प्रभवन्त्यहरागमे । राज्यागमे प्रलीयन्ते तत्रैवाव्यक्तसञ्जके ॥ १८ ॥ भतग्रामः स एवायं भूत्वा भूत्वा प्रलीयते । रात्र्यागमेऽवश: पार्थ प्रभवत्यहरागमे ॥ १९ ॥
"These men know what is Day and what is Night. As also that Brahma's Day and Night each last for thousands of yugas and that when Brahma's Day comes all the things which are manifest spring from the
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