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SHRIMAD BHAGVAD GITA-A JAIN PERSPECTIVE
Arjuna is made to see all of eternity in a moment the whole universe and its multifarious phenomena in one focus.
Instead of describling what Arjuna visualized in his Divine Insight verse by verse, it would be proper to quote the masterly summary by the learned author Shri Mahadev Desai at Page 85 (My submission) of his book “Gita according to Gandhi”, as under:- “When Arjuna's eye, even the Divene eye, can not contain this vision, his tongue breaks out in speech, and when speech fails, the eye leaps in to rest on the vision. The Universal Infinite, All pervading, Almighty form alternately amazesandterrifies him. The serene and the awwsome aspects both are there, the moon that soothes is one of the eyes of the Lord, the sun that dazzles is the other eye. The sun that gives life and warmth is there, but the sun that scorches and burns is also there. A myriad forms are being devoured in His volcanic flame. And now the Great War
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