Bhagavad Gita Bhasya (Gambhirananada)

the enlightened person distinguished above, who
has realized the immutable Self, and the seeker of
Liberation are qualified only for renunciation of all
rites and duties. Therefore, indeed, the Lord
Narayana, making a distinction between the
enlightened man of Knowledge and the
unenlightened man of rites and duties, makes them
take up the two kinds of adherences in the text,
'through the Yoga of Knowledge for the men of
realization; through the Yoga of Action for the
yogis' (3.3). Similarly also, Vyasa said to his son,
'Now, there are these two paths,' etc. ['Now, there
are these two paths on which the Vedas are based.
They are thought of as the dharma characterized
by engagement in duties, and that by renunciation
of them' (Mbh. Sa. 241.6).-Tr.] So also (there is a
Vedic text meaning): 'The path of rites and duties,
indeed, is the earlier, and renunciation comes after
that.' [Ast. says that this is not a quotation, but only
gives the purport of Tai, Ar. 10.62.12.-Tr.] The Lord
will show again and again this very division: 'The
unenlightened man who is deluded by egoism
thinks thus: "I am the doer"; but the one who is a
knower of the facts (about the varieties of the
gunas) thinks, "I do not act"' (cf. 3.27,28). So also
there is the text, '(The embodied man of
selfcontrol,) having given up all actions mentally,
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