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SHRIMAD BHAGVAD GITA-A JAIN PERSPECTIVE
Pravruddho"- "I am the "Kala", the Time of destruction, the Eternal Time, the destroyer of the world. "Even without you", the Lord said, "none of the warriors, to fight with whom you are hesitating, shall not survive". (verses 32 to 34). Verse 33 is very significant in as much as it exhorts Arjuna to be a mere instrument in the hands of the Almighty Cosmic power. Actually it exhorts us to be the instrument of Divine dispensation renouncing totally every strain of egotism in every affair our mundane existence.
The Lord resumed His human form and emphasized that the realization of the Cosmic form of the Supreme Soul can not be had merely by study of Vedas or performance of rituals or even by austere penances and donations. It can however be achieved by single-minded devotion, freedom from all types of attachments and friendship with all creatures. If all the verses of this chapter are interpreted as above, they would involve the repetition
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