नियतस्य तु संन्यासः कर्मणो नोपपद्यते ॥
मोहात् तस्य परित्यागस् तामसः परिकीर्तितः ॥
दुःखम् इत्य् एव यत् कर्म कायक्लेशभयात् त्यजेत् ॥
स कृत्वा राजसं त्यागं नैव त्यागफलं लभेत् ॥
कार्यम् इत्य् एव यत् कर्म नियतं क्रियते ऽर्जुन ॥
सङ्गं त्यक्त्वा फलं चैव स त्यागः सात्त्विको मतः ॥
न द्वेष्ट्य् अकुशलं कर्म कुशले नानुषज्जते ॥
त्यागी सत्त्वसमाविष्टो मेधावी छिन्नसंशयः ॥
न हि देहभृता शक्यं त्यक्तुं कर्माण्य् अशेषतः ॥
यस् तु कर्मफलत्यागी स त्यागीत्य् अभिधीयते ॥
अनिष्टम् इष्टं मिश्रं च त्रिविधं कर्मणः फलम् ॥
भवत्य् अत्यागिनां प्रेत्य न तु संन्यासिनां क्व चित् ॥
niyatasya tu saṃnyāsaḥ karmaṇo nopapadyate ||
mohāt tasya parityāgas tāmasaḥ parikīrtitaḥ ||
duḥkham ity eva yat karma kāyakleśabhayāt tyajet ||
sa kṛtvā rājasaṃ tyāgaṃ naiva tyāgaphalaṃ labhet ||
kāryam ity eva yat karma niyataṃ kriyate 'rjuna ||
saṅgaṃ tyaktvā phalaṃ caiva sa tyāgaḥ sāttviko mataḥ ||
na dveṣṭy akuśalaṃ karma kuśale nānuṣajjate ||
tyāgī sattvasamāviṣṭo medhāvī chinnasaṃśayaḥ ||
na hi dehabhṛtā śakyaṃ tyaktuṃ karmāṇy aśeṣataḥ ||
yas tu karmaphalatyāgī sa tyāgīty abhidhīyate ||
aniṣṭam iṣṭaṃ miśraṃ ca trividhaṃ karmaṇaḥ phalam ||
bhavaty atyāgināṃ pretya na tu saṃnyāsināṃ kva cit ||
"Giving up prescribed action is not fitting. Abandoning it out of delusion is called tamasic renunciation. If someone gives up an action considering it burdensome, out of fear of bodily hardship, then, having performed rajasic renunciation, he does not obtain the fruit of tyaga. But when a prescribed action is performed with the thought 'this must be done,' O Arjuna, with attachment and fruit given up, such renunciation is deemed sattvic. The true renouncer, imbued with sattva, wise and free from doubt, does not hate an unfavorable action and does not cling to a favorable one. For the embodied being cannot give up action entirely; but he who has given up the fruits of action is truly called a renouncer. The threefold fruit of action — undesired, desired, and mixed — falls after death upon those who have not renounced, but never upon true renouncers."
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True renunciation is not defined by outward stillness. As long as the soul dwells in a body, action is unavoidable; what liberates is not the giving up of duty but the giving up of selfish ownership of its fruit.