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Krishna

18.9 कार्यमित्येव यत्कर्म नियतं क्रियतेऽर्जुन।सङ्गं त्यक्त्वा फलं चैव स त्यागः सात्त्विको मतः

kāryamityeva yatkarma niyataṃ kriyate'rjuna | saṅgaṃ tyaktvā phalaṃ caiva sa tyāgaḥ sāttviko mataḥ

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kāryam—as a duty;iti—as;eva—indeed;yat—which;karma niyatam—obligatory actions;kriyate—are performed;arjuna—Arjun;saṅgam—attachment;tyaktvā—relinquishing;phalam—reward;cha—and;eva—certainly;saḥ—such;tyāgaḥ—renunciation of desires for enjoying the fruits of actions;sāttvikaḥ—in the mode of goodness;mataḥ—considered

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My Personal Gita

Dr. S. Sankaranarayan

"This is a thing to be performed" - just on that ground, whatever usual action is performed, relinquishing attachment and also fruit - that act of relinquishment is deemed to be of the Sattva (strand).

Shri Purohit Swami

He who performs an obligatory action, because he believes it to be a duty which ought to be done, without any personal desire to do the act or to receive any return - such renunciation is Pure.

Swami Adidevananda

When actions are performed as what ought to be done, O Arjuna, renouncing attachment and also fruits, such abandonment is regarded as Sattvika.

Swami Gambirananda

Whatever obligatory duty is performed just because it is a bounden duty, O Arjuna, by giving up attachment and the result as well,-that renunciation is considered to be based on sattva.

Swami Sivananda

Whatever obligatory action is done, O Arjuna, merely because it ought to be done, abandoning attachment and also the desire for reward, that renunciation is regarded as Sattwic!

Krishna

18.11 न हि देहभृता शक्यं त्यक्तुं कर्माण्यशेषतः।यस्तु कर्मफलत्यागी स त्यागीत्यभिधीयते

na hi dehabhṛtā śakyaṃ tyaktuṃ karmāṇyaśeṣataḥ | yastu karmaphalatyāgī sa tyāgītyabhidhīyate

Word meanings

na—not;hi—indeed;deha-bhṛitā—for the embodied being;śhakyam—possible;tyaktum—to give up;karmāṇi—activities;aśheṣhataḥ—entirely;yaḥ—who;tu—but;karma-phala—fruits of actions;tyāgī—one who renounces all desires for enjoying the fruits of actions;saḥ—they;tyāgī—one who renounces all desires for enjoying the fruits of actions;iti—as;abhidhīyate—are said

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My Personal Gita

Dr. S. Sankaranarayan

Indeed, to relinquish actions entirely is not possible for a body-bearing one; but whoever relinquishes the fruits of actions, he is said to be a man of [true] relinquishment.

Shri Purohit Swami

But since those still in the body cannot entirely avoid action, in their case abandonment of the fruit of action is considered as complete renunciation.

Swami Adidevananda

For, it is impossible for one who bears a body to abandon actions entirely. But he who gives up the fruits of works, is called the abandoner.

Swami Gambirananda

Since it is not possible for one who holds on to a body to give up actions entirely, therefore he, on the other hand, who renounces results on actions is called a man of renunciation.

Swami Sivananda

Verily, it is not possible for an embodied being to abandon actions entirely; but he who relinquishes the rewards of actions is verily called a man of renunciation.

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18.10 न द्वेष्ट्यकुशलं कर्म कुशले नानुषज्जते।त्यागी सत्त्वसमाविष्टो मेधावी छिन्नसंशयः

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na—neither;dveṣhṭi—hate;akuśhalam—disagreeable;karma—work;kuśhale—to an agreeable;na—nor;anuṣhajjate—seek;tyāgī—one who renounces desires for enjoying the fruits of actions;sattva—in the mode of goodness;samāviṣhṭaḥ—endowed with;medhāvī—intelligent;chhinna-sanśhayaḥ—those who have no doubts

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My Personal Gita

Dr. S. Sankaranarayan

The man of renunciation, who is well-possessed of Sattva, is wise and has his doubts destroyed—he does not hate unskilled action and does not cling to skilled action.

Shri Purohit Swami

The wise man who has attained purity, whose doubts are solved, who is filled with the spirit of self-abnegation, does not shrink from action because it brings pain, nor does he desire it because it brings pleasure.

Swami Adidevananda

One who has abandoned, who is imbued with Sattva, who is wise, whose doubts have been dispelled - such a person hates not disagreeable acts nor clings to agreeable ones.

Swami Gambirananda

The man of renunciation who has become imbued with sattva, who is wise and freed from doubts, does not hate unbefitting action, nor does he become attached to befitting activity.

Swami Sivananda

The man of renunciation, pervaded by purity, intelligent and with his doubts cut asunder, does not hate a disagreeable work nor is he attached to an agreeable one.