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The Philosophy of the Bhagavadgita - 6.6. Swami Krishnananda.

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------------------------------------------- Saturday, August 29, , 2020. 8:49. AM. Chapter 6: The Meaning of Duty -6. --------------------------------------------- 1. Apart from this necessity to live in an economic atmosphere so as to produce economic values, we have also the need for protection. The need for organisation and enactment of laws is the need we feel for a government of human society. At least the Contract Theory in political science accepts that the origin of government is in a mutual agreement and contract of people for protection of themselves in a particular manner. We have organised a government; we wanted it and have created it in a particular way for our own welfare. The government exists for the people. This function requires another class of people, apart from these who are the producers of consumable goods. 2. But, then, we cannot simply produce goods and keep them in a corner. There is a necessity to organise the transference of these economi...