How to reconcile the Gita – do your own duty even if imperfectly – with the Gita – do what you are good at, according to your nature?

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so i said that we should do something which is comfortable and competent but Krishna says that do one sub-profession even if you do it imperfectly rather than somebody else’s profession that is perfect the word perfect is a very elastic word it can mean many different things in different contexts so in that context shreyan swadharma vighuna paradharma sunishtha swadharme nirjan shreya shreyan swadharma vighuna paradharma sunishtha swadharme nirjan swadharme nirjan swadharme swadharme nirjan swadharme nirjan swadharme nirjan swadharme nirjan swadharme nirjan swadharme nirjan swadharme nirjan swadharme nirjan swadharme forgiveness not forgiveness forgiveness is brahminical act but kshatriya is meant to have justice and that requires punishment so kshatriya should be arguing that you have a kshatriya’s responsibility you may think a brahmin activity is better because there is no violence there is no bloodshed there is no killing of non-relatives but you will not give them justice eventually you will want to fight so therefore when he is saying don’t do another duty even if you do it perfectly it perfectly refers to that oh you won’t have to commit any violence any bloodshed whereas in your activity you will have to do some bloodshed immediately after that is sarvarambha hi doshe dhume naag nirbhav he says that at all endeavours are covered by fault just like fire is covered by smoke just because there is fault don’t give it up the fault refers to not one inability to do it rather the unpleasant situation unpleasant complications that are associated with the action and Krishna is telling Arjuna that just because your kshatriya duty is associated with the unpleasant complications of having to fight against relatives don’t give it up so Krishna is not telling Arjuna that Arjuna is competent and is the best of archers so when Krishna says that when I talked about how we should work according to the area where we are comfortable and competent that is basically gunakarma we work according to our gunakarma but in the case of Arjuna Arjuna’s gunakarma was the kshatriya but at that time his mind his mind was saying all the complications associated with that are too bad therefore I don’t want to do it so the imperfection refers not to the action the way of doing action but to the complications associated with that action