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Bhagavad Gita Bhasya (Gambhirananada)

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

Commentary - Swami Gambhirananda<br />

18.9 Yat, whatever; niyatam karma, daily<br />

obligatory duty; kriyate, is performed,<br />

accomplished; iti eva, just because; it is karyam, a<br />

bounden duty; O Arjuna, tyaktva, by giving up;<br />

sangam, attachment; and phalam, the result; ca<br />

eva, as well; sah, that; tyagah, renunciation, giving<br />

up of attachment and (hankering for) the resutls of<br />

daily obligatory duties; matah, is considered; to be<br />

sattvikah, based on sattva, arising from sattva. We<br />

said that the Lord's utterance is proof of the<br />

fruitfulness of daily obligatory duties. Or, even if<br />

the niyakarmas be understood (from the Lord's<br />

worlds) to be fruitless, still the ignorant man does<br />

certainly imagine that the nityakarmas (daily<br />

obligatory duites) when performed produce for<br />

oneself a result either in the form of purification of<br />

the mind or avoidance of evil. As to this, the Lord<br />

aborts even that imagination by saying, 'by giving<br />

up the result'. Hence it has been well said, 'by<br />

giving up attachment and the result'. Objection:<br />

Well, is not the threefold relinquishment of actions,<br />

also called sannyasa, under discussion? As regards<br />

this, the renunciation based on tamas and rajas<br />

have been stated. Why is the relinquishment of<br />

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