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Bhagavad Gita Bhasya (Gambhirananada)

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that they say the daily obligatory (nitya) and the<br />

occasional (naimittika) rites and duties have no<br />

results at all? How is the giving up of their results<br />

spoken of-like the abandoning of a son of a barren<br />

woman?! Reply: This defect does not desire. It is<br />

the intention of the Lord that the nitya-karmas<br />

(daily obligatory duties) also have results; for the<br />

Lord will say, 'The threefold results of actions-the<br />

undesirable, the desirable and the mixed-accrue<br />

after death to those who do not resort to tyaga',<br />

and also, 'but never to those who resort to<br />

sannyasa (monks)' (12). Indeed, by showing that, it<br />

is only in the case of sannyasins (monks) alone that<br />

there is no connection with the results of actions,<br />

the Lord asserts in, '...accrue after death to those<br />

who do not resort to tyaga (renunciation)' (abid.),<br />

that the result of daily obligatory (nitya) duties<br />

accrue to those who are not sannyasins (monks).<br />

18.3 Some learned persons say that action, beset<br />

with evil (as it is), should be given up, and others<br />

(say) that the practice of sacrifice, charity and<br />

austertiy should not be given up.<br />

English Translation of Sri Sankaracharya's Sanskrit<br />

Commentary - Swami Gambhirananda<br />

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