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SHRIMAD BHAGVAD GITA-A JAIN PERSPECTIVE
"(It is also true that ) all those beings abide not in Me. This (this paradox) is the real Mystery of My Divine power. Being sustainer and creator of all beings, My self does not dwell in them "- 5 यथाकाशस्थितो नित्यं वायुः सर्वत्रगो महान् । तथा सर्वाणि भूतानि मत्स्थानीत्युपधारय ॥६॥
"As the mighty wind moving every where, rests always in space , even so, know that all beings rest in me. "- 6 सवभूर्तानि कौन्तेय प्रकृतिं यान्ति मामिकाम् । कल्पक्षये पुनस्तानि कल्पादौ विसृजाम्यहम् ॥ ७ ॥
"Oh Kaunteya, all beings return to my nature at the end of each "Kalpa" and when the new Kalpa begins I bring them again * Note : Both these verses are likely to confuse an
ordinary student. Gandhiji rightly explains the apparent paradox by saying that as everything is God - oriented one can say that He contains everything. He is, however unconcerned and unaffected and so it can be said that beings are not in Him. However those who are his real and true worshipers are in Him but not those who are atheists (non - believers)
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