Commentary on the Bhagavadgita : 50-3. - Swami Krishnananda.
======================================================================== ========================================================================= Thursday, October 06, 2022. 06:00. Discourse 50: The Eighteenth Chapter Continues – Knowing One's Duty-3. ======================================================================== The duties of a Brahmana, a Kshatriya, a Vaishya or a Sudra are determined by the gunas of prakriti—svabhāvaprabhavair guṇaiḥ. One is not born a genius, one is not born wealthy, one is not born an administrator, nor is one a labourer right from birth. The conditions of living accrue or grow around oneself due to various circumstances occasioned by past karmas as well as one's present abilities. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Internal restraint of the sense organs, external control over the active senses, purity of motive inwardly and outwardly, forgiveness, st...