The Teachings of the Bhagavadgita - 4.2. Swami Krishnananda
----------------------------------------------------------------- Monday, August 24, 2020. 7:41.AM. Chapter 4: Duty – An Empirical Manifestation of True Being-2. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 1. It is difficult to understand what all this means if we study this theme merely as an abstract science of logical philosophy. Perhaps I may place before you an analogy or a comparison that is more concrete and visible to our eyes than this pure abstract principle we are discussing in this context. We owe a duty to the body in which we are enshrined, and every part of the body owes a duty to every other part of the body, but no part of the body has a right over another part. This is something very novel that we see in the physiological organism of our own personality. Every limb of our body has a duty which it automatically performs without compulsion or impulsion, without any mandate or governmental enactment; yet, it does not expect anyth...