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SHRIMAD BHAGVAD GITA-A JAIN PERSPECTIVE
आख्याहि मे को भवानुग्ररुपो
नमोऽस्तु ते देववर प्रसीद । विज्ञातुमिच्छामि भवन्तमायं
न हि प्रजानामि तव प्रवृत्तिम् ॥ ३१ ॥ "Oh Lord, please tell me who you are in such a dreadful form. Oh lord of Lords, I bow down to you. Please be gracious, I desire to know you, the original Being. I do not know your purpose." - 31
॥ श्रीभगवानुवाच । कालोऽस्मि लोकक्षयकृत्प्रवृद्धो
लोकान्समाहर्तुमिह प्रवृतः । ऋतेऽपि त्वां न भविष्यन्ति सर्वे
येऽवस्थिता: प्रत्यनीकेषु योधाः ॥ ३२ ॥ Lord said : ___ "I am Kala- Time of Destruction, now engaged in destroying the world. Even without you none of the warriors arrayed in the hostile camp shall
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