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Chapter 18
Further a man has assumed his affinity with prakrti, by neglecting discrimination. He has assumed the self, as the body and the body, as his own. It is because of the assumption of egoism, and mineness, that the embodied being cannot abandon actions, entirely.
Yastu[1] karmaphalatyagi sa tyagityabhidhiyate:- He, who relinquishes his affinity for action and its fruit, is a relinquisher. So long as he has his affinity with agreeable or disagreeable, good or bad action, he is not a relinquisher. When a man assumes things and actions, as his own, he gets attached to them. Moreover, he is also attached to fruits, of those actions. But, as soon as, his aim is to relinquish the fruit of action, all his actions are - directed, towards the welfare of the world. The reason is, that he realizes, that he has received everything from the world, and so everything belongs to the world. Besides, actions and their fruits, appear and disappear, while he ever remains, uniform and immutable. Having this sort of discrimination, he gives up the fruit of actions, very easily. Such a person, who relinquishes the fruit of action, is called a relinquisher.
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