If you neglect your duty, you will incur sin ?

Question

Besides men will recount endlessly your infamy; and to one held in high esteem dishonour is worse than death.

Therefore, if you neglect your duty, you will incur sin; and this disgrace will not be effaced even at the end of the world cycle. A wise man should live only so long as he does not suffer infamy. Besides tell me how you propose to get away from here. Even if you were to leave this place out of kindness and without malice, this action of yours will not carry conviction to the Kauravas. They will surround you from all sides and when they shower arrows upon you, your kindness will not save you. Even if you manage to get away unscathed, your after-life will be worse than death

Source:- Jnaneswari viz Bhagavad Gita

Is there any some subtle threads in the words of Lord Krishna ?

Answer 1

Well, it would seem that Jesus ignored his religious duty of obeying the laws of the Sabbath by healing the lame. Of course thats a load of gumph, but the concept is still the same.

The Chinese are ignoring their duty as a communist state of listening to the people and instead seeks to silence them

John Prescott is ignoring his duty to the environment by purchasing a fossil fuel guzzling jag with the tax payers money.

Duty matters boot diddly in the world i'm afraid.

I think it is admirable to do ones duty for the sake of duty, but if it is in conflict with what is a more beneficial action (such as an SS officer ignoring the Jewish family hiding in the attic and hence his duty, and instead performs the more beneficial action of saving their lives by shouting out to his comrades "no Jews up here. All clear"), then duty should be questioned.

After all, you wouldn't tell a serial killer the wherabouts of his victim if he asked you, even though it is your duty to always the truth, would you?

Answer 2

The great prophet,Albert Higginbottom, once said and i qoute,''if tha fergits tha duty tha will be up fer sack'' which roughly translated means you will cease to be employed, and according to scholars the way to remove thyself is by local transport the number 17 being the preffered bus. LF