The Essence of the Gospel of the Bhagavad Gita : 5. Swami Krishnananda

======================================================================= -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 09.11.2019. (Spoken at a conference in Delhi on December 27, 1973.) 5. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ āKnowledge is to be the rock bottom of action; wisdom should guide the sense of duty,ā is the advice of Bhagavan Sri Krishna to Arjuna. Knowledge is the guiding factor, the motive power, the determining principle behind the execution of your duty in life. You cannot know what your duty is if you do not know what your position in this world is. The knowledge of your placement in this world, in this human society, is to be the guiding light behind your performance of duty. Unless you know what you are and where you are placed, you cannot know what to do at any given moment of your life. āWher...