Chapter 18: Mokṣa-sannyāsa-yoga: – Liberation, Renunciation and the Supreme SecretVerse 7
नियतस्य तु संन्यास: कर्मणो नोपपद्यते ।
मोहात्तस्य परित्यागस्तामस: परिकीर्तित: ॥
English Transliteration
niyatasya tu sannyāsa:
karmaṇo nopapadyate
mohāt-tasya parityāgas-
tāmasa: parikīrtita: – 18.7
Translation
It is not proper to renounce a rightly guided and necessary action. Renouncing any such action due to delusion is widely considered as tāmasa-tyāga.
Chanting Audio
Chapter 18: Mokṣa-sannyāsa-yoga: – Liberation, Renunciation and the Supreme Secret - Verse 7
Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha
Commentary
Krishna has already said that relinquishment of actions (karma-tyaga) is threefold. He continues the thread and explains the subject further. First he discusses the tamasa renunciation.
To renounce actions altogether is impossible, as Nature with its three gunas is holding one and all under the spell of ceaseless activity. As long as we have regular food, and it is digested and absorbed into the system, energy will be built, which has to be utilized in the form of various activities. This is a ceaseless cycle. Hence no physical renunciation of activity is ever possible.
Yet, being deluded, making no attempt to redress the plight through inner unaffectedness, some feel they have the option to physically drop all activity. This is tamasa-tyaga. The deluded fail to understand their inner personality and what happens to it by such wrong moves!
