INTRODUCTION
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Here, it is important to understand what duty means. If I have to do my duty, I need to know how to identify my duty.
The idea of duty is different for different people, different countries, different cultures, and different religions. Hence the term ‘duty’ is impossible to clearly define. We have always been trained by society to consider certain acts as duty; some as good and others as bad. Duty and responsibility are totally different.
For example, it is our duty to help elderly people, to follow principles of truth, non-violence, non-stealing and such tenets. We are brought up with these concepts of morality, but have we experienced the beauty of implementing them?
What Kṛṣṇa talks about here is not socially defined duty or conscience.
He is talking about responsibility, the
leadership consciousness, the law of the
cosmos. The Cosmos functions on
responsibilism.
When you take responsibility, the higher energies start expressing through you. When you actually take responsibility, Indra enters your hand; it becomes vajrāyudha. Yama enters your lungs; it means 'not-stopping'. Lakṣmi enters your heart; it means 'continuously sharing'.
Kubera enters your liver and kidney, keeping the whole thing alive;
Mārut, Agni, Mārīci, all of them enter your intestine, burning anything that is offered and keeping the whole system active and alive.
