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O Arjuna, listen to My conclusion about Tyaaga.
Tyaaga is said to be of three types. (18.04)
Acts of sacrifice, charity, and austerity should not be abandoned, but
should be performed, because sacrifice, charity, and austerity are the
purifiers of the wise. (18.05)
Even these (obligatory) works should be performed without attachment to
the fruits. This is My definite supreme advice, O Arjuna. (18.06)
Renunciation of obligatory work (or duty) is not proper. The abandonment
of duty is due to delusion, and is declared to be Taamasika Tyaaga.
(18.07)
One who abandons duty merely because it is difficult, or because of fear
of bodily trouble, does not get the benefits of Tyaaga by performing
such Raajasika Tyaaga. (18.08)
Obligatory work performed as duty, renouncing attachment to the fruit,
is alone regarded as Saattvika Tyaaga, O Arjuna. (18.09)
One who neither hates a disagreeable work nor is attached to an
agreeable work, is Saattvika, wise, a renunciant, and free from all
doubts. (18.10)
Human beings cannot completely abstain from work. Therefore, the one who
completely renounces the attachment to the fruits of all works is
considered a Tyaagi (or renunciant). (18.11)
The threefold fruit of works -- desirable, undesirable, and mixed --
accrues after death to a non-Tyaagi but never to a Tyaagi. (18.12)
Learn from Me, O Arjuna, the five causes, as described in the Saamkhya
doctrine, for the accomplishment of all actions. (18.13)
The physical body or the seat of Karma, the doer or the Guna, various
instruments or the organs (of perception and action), various Pranas or
bioimpulses, and the fifth is the presiding deities (or the five basic
elements). (18.14)
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