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JEZIRI - 96 * EIGHTEEN
inauspicious.
Verses 45 to 48 emphasize that the persons belonging to each class have to perform the duties assigned to them, and that if so done, one attains perfection irrespective of the class to which he or the she belongs. Performance of one's own duty which is ordained by his or her own nature is better even if that duty is not alluring or is tainted. Why this is so, is explained in the verse 49, which says that by performance of one's own duty without any attachment and in a natural manner, one becomes the master of himself and avoids all sorts of bondages resulting from worldly activities.
The spirit of the verses 45 to 49 is to show that no class of society called “Varna” is superior to another class bacause the ultimate height of spirtuality can be achieved by any person belonging to any class provided he or she performs his or her assigned duty without attachment. According of Jainism also, Spiritual freedom is not the monopoly of any
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