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Bhagavad Gita Bhashya (Adi Shankaracharya) 18.8

Bhagavad Gita Bhashya (Adi Shankaracharya) 18.8 · 18 · Verse 8

advaitashankaracharyabhagavad-gitacommentaryvedanta

Sanskrit Original

।।18.8।। --,दुःखम् इति एव यत् कर्म कायक्लेशभयात् शरीरदुःखभयात् त्यजेत्? सः कृत्वा राजसं रजोनिर्वर्त्यं त्यागं नैव त्यागफलं ज्ञानपूर्वकस्य सर्वकर्मत्यागस्य फलं मोक्षाख्यं न लभेत् नैव लभेत।।कः पुनः सात्त्विकः त्यागः इति? आह --,

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18.8 Yat, whatever; karma, action; tyajet, one may relinish, eva, merely; iti, as being; kuhkham, painful; [As being impossible to accomplish.] kaya-klesa-bhayat, from fear of physical suffering, out of fear of bodily pain; sah, he; krtva, having resorted; tyagam, to renunciation; rajasam, based on rajas, arising from rajas; will eva, surely; na labhet (shuld rather be labhate), not acire; tyaga-phalam, fruits of renunciation, the result called Liberation, which follows from renunciation of all actions as a conseence of Illumination. Which, again, is the renunciation based on sattva?