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SHIRIMAD BHAGVAD GITA-A JAIN PERSPECTIVE
More important is the fact that Gita's teachings are not confined only to spiritual seekers because these teachings are useful in day-to-day problems of our practical existence also. This is because Gita's teachings have holistic and universal appeal.
Thus those who treat Gita as merely a Hindu scripture do so perhaps because they have not read its verses and have formed their belief from the fact that followers of Gita are mostly the “Hindus”.
SETTING SYMBOLIC :
While appreciating and understanding the teachings of Gita in their proper context it should be born in mind that the setting of the occasion of preaching contained in Gita just when the large armies of both the sides were ready to fight in the battle field of Kurukshetra seems to be only a poetic innovation to provide proper background as it is not possible to believe that such highly saturatá philosophical
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