The Bhagavadgita – A Synthesis of Thought and Action-6. Swami Krishnananda.
======================================================================================= Sunday 01, Sep 2024, 06:50. Article Scriptures The Bhagavadgita – A Synthesis of Thought and Action-6. Swami Krishnananda (Spoken on Gita Jayanti in 1973) ======================================================================================= Now, what is duty? Duty is the obligation that an individual owes to the world outside, and we cannot know what our duty is unless we know what the world is because, as I mentioned in this simple definition of duty, it is an obligation that we owe to the world as a whole. But how do we know what is our obligation to the world if we do not know what the world is? The world is not made up of mountains and rivers. It is not a conglomeration of earth, water, fire, air and ether, sun, moon, stars. The world is a fabric of forces. It is a pattern of energies which work everywhere uniformly both in organic and inorganic substances. We are told today that the universe