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Gita seems to conclude that the world is a bondage. It gives in Chapter 2, Shloka 51 जन्मबन्धविनिर्मुक्ता: (freed from the bondage of birth) as the final goal मनीषिण: (the sages). But Sri Krishna also shows Arjuna how to live like a Jivanmukta through the highest formula of surrender. I am not sure if I have understood it well but do you think the message here is ‘apparently’ contradictory – that life is ultimately a bondage and that one can also live freely😌?

That is the other side of the human evolutionary journey through the adventure of Time and Space that Sri Krishna points out when he speaks

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How was Arjuna related to Sri Krishna🦚? Kunti was the biological daughter of Shurasena, a Yadava ruler. Her birth name was Pritha. She is said to be the reincarnation of the goddess Siddhi. She was the sister of Vasudeva, Krishna’s father. Thus, Kunti is the sister of Vasudeva who is Krishna’s father. Her son, Arjuna thus becomes Krishna’s cousin. I found this information online, can you please tell me if this information is correct.

Krishna and Arjuna were first cousins. But their relationship goes much deeper. Sri Krishna reveals in the Mahabharata that they are Nar (human) and Narayan

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