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SHRIMAD BHAGVAD GITA-A JAIN PERSPECTIVE
maintains that you are your own cause and your own effect and that is why by your own efforts and exertions you can reap good and bad results. You are not subservient to any outside agency. Finality is your own potential. As Bruhadaranakya Upanishad puts it, “Whoever Worships God as other than the self, thinking he is one and I am another, knows not.” Even Gita recogenises this truth when Lord says : “şur: YATATE ESTA 3tofa faretai" Jainism would say : -ORTO Tobacteuf: For: 1" (when all karmas are aanihilated, one becomes God). In one of the Upanishadas God is described as "ng sa sufebi" i.e. “It appears to be far away but “It” is quiete near you.” Two constituents of Universe :
So the question is what is this mechenism and how it functions, because whith this knowledge it would be easier to live in harmony. Our observation reveals that this universe is constituted by two elements namely, one which is dynamic and the other to
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