RIGHT ACTION

The Gita lays reiterated emphasis on the unselfish performance of duty as preferable to attempts at renunciation of activities. The eighteenth chapter, which summarizes the teachings of the Gita, though named Sanyaasa Yoga, starts with the following slokas:-

Sages accept as Sanyaasa the renouncing of works that are motivated by desire. The relinquishing of the fruit of all actions is called Tyaga by them.

XVIII-2

Renunciation of duties that are prescribed is not proper; it is declared that such relinquishment is due to delusion and is a sign Tamasic nature.

XVIII-7

The Tyaga that consists in the performance of prescribed duty with the feeling that it ought to be done in 2 spirit of detachment and not desiring for oneself the fruit thereof, is regarded as Sattvik.

XVIII-9

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