18.10 न द्वेष्ट्यकुशलं कर्म कुशले नानुषज्जते।त्यागी सत्त्वसमाविष्टो मेधावी छिन्नसंशयः
na dveṣṭy
Word meanings
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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Divine Verses of the Bhagavad Gita • Swami Dayananda Saraswati
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
18.12 अनिष्टमिष्टं मिश्रं च त्रिविधं कर्मणः फलम्।भवत्यत्यागिनां प्रेत्य न तु संन्यासिनां क्वचित्
aniṣṭam
Word meanings
aniṣhṭam—unpleasant;iṣhṭam—pleasant;miśhram—mixed;cha—and;tri-vidham—three-fold;karmaṇaḥ phalam—fruits of actions;bhavati—accrue;atyāginām—to those who are attached to persona reward;pretya—after death;na—not;tu—but;sanyāsinām—for the renouncers of actions;kvachit—ever
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Divine Verses of the Bhagavad Gita • Swami Dayananda Saraswati
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The three-fold fruit of action—the undesired, the desired, and the mixed—accrues even after death to those who are not men of renunciation, but never to those who are men of renunciation.
For those who cannot renounce all desire, the fruit of action hereafter is threefold - good, evil, and partly good and partly evil. But for him who has renounced, there is none.
Undesirable, desirable and mixed - thus threefold is the fruit of work that accrues after death to those who have not renounced; but to those who have renounced, none whatsoever.
The threefold results of actions-the undesirable, the desirable, and the mixed-accrues after death to those who do not resort to renunciation, but never to those who resort to monasticism.
The threefold fruit of action–evil, good and mixed–accrues after death to the non-abandoners, but never to the abandoners.
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मोक्षसंन्यासयोग
Chapter 18: Free Yourself Through Renunciation
mokṣasaṃnyāsayoga
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18.11 न हि देहभृता शक्यं त्यक्तुं कर्माण्यशेषतः।यस्तु कर्मफलत्यागी स त्यागीत्यभिधीयते
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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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Divine Verses of the Bhagavad Gita • Swami Dayananda Saraswati
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
