Commentary on the Bhagavadgita : 50-2. - Swami Krishnananda.
======================================================================== ======================================================================== Saturday, October 01, 2022. 08:30. Discourse 50: The Eighteenth Chapter Continues – Knowing One's Duty-2. ======================================================================== Though society is stable, somehow or the other, by an administrative system that is introduced in this manner by bringing about some harmonious adjustment of capacities and intelligences, there is also a need for working out a system of inner development. It is not enough if we are merely stable socially. We also have to be perfect inwardly in our own individuality. Varna dharma, which is actually what is meant by this social group mentioned, is concerned only with external society, and ashrama dharma is concerned with ourselves. Brahmana, Kshatriya, Vaishya and Sudra are external, social, outward, whereas Brahmacharya, Grihastha, Vanaprastha and Sannyasa refer