The Essence of the Aitareya and Taittiriya Upanishads 1.1 - Swami Krishnananda.
========================================================================= ======================================================================== Sunday, October 23, 2022. 06:30. Chapter 1: Introduction -1. ======================================================================= The great issues of life, whether personal or social, hinge upon the concept of duty—what one ought to do in life. We know very well that the whole enterprise of mankind is a struggle of duty towards a particular end, and it makes no difference what position a person occupies in life insofar as the broad question of duty is concerned. The division of duty may vary from person to person, or from condition to condition; but that there is a duty of some sort cannot be denied, because duty is another name for the function that one is expected to perform in a given location of one's life. But what one ought to do cannot be decided easily unless another question is answered: what is it that one is aiming at? Our