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from a work by right prescribed Never is meet! So to abstain doth
spring From "Darkness," and Delusion teacheth it.
Abstaining from a work grievous to flesh, When one saith "'Tis
unpleasing!" this is null!
Such an one acts from
"passion;" nought of gain Wins his Renunciation! But,
Arjun! Abstaining from attachment to the work, Abstaining from
rewardment in the work, While yet one doeth it full faithfully,
Saying, "'Tis right to do!" that is "true" act
And abstinence! Who doeth duties so, Unvexed if his work
fail, if it succeed Unflattered, in his own heart
justified, Quit of debates and doubts, his is "true" act:
For, being in the body, none may stand Wholly aloof from act;
yet, who abstains From profit of his acts is abstinent.
The fruit of labours, in the fives to
come, Is threefold for all men,- Desirable, And Undesirable, and
mixed of both; But no fruit is at all where no work was. Hear
from me, Long-armed Lord! the makings five Which go to every act, in
Sankhya taught As necessary. First the force; and then The agent;
next, the various instruments; Fourth, the especial effort; fifth,
the God.
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