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Chapter 18
Mokshasanyaasa Yoga
3. Actions which are defective should be relinquished, say some learned men. Others declare that actions like sacrifice, charity, penance should not be relinquished.
Bhashya :- In the first part of the verse, the reference is to मनिषीण: the protagonists of the First Part, the पूर्वपक्ष, which is accepted as reasonable. According to the protagonists of the other side, the उत्तरपक्ष only giving up the fruits of action is renunciation. Having said later (in Gita) यस्तु कर्मफलत्यागी, the other view has also been accepted as reasonable.
Tatparya Nirnaya :- Having referred them as manishinah, learned men, their views are not to be ridiculed, but should be given up as defective, thus it is averred. This is the purport - giving up actions with desire for fruits and attachment to them.
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