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Chapter 18
Mokshasanyaasa Yoga
4. Listen to Me with fervor, O Arjuna, the truth about renunciation. Renunciation has been declared to be three-fold.
Bhashya :- those methods are explained as certain.
5. Sacrifice, charity and penance should never be renounced but should always be performed, because they are the purifiers of the men of wisdom.
Bhashya :- The types of actions are spoken here in this verse. The different types of sacrifices have been clarified earlier as sacrifice with wealth etc. In charity even fearlessness is also included. Such actions like sacrifices etc. should be performed by all. Otherwise it would contradict the statement in Vyaas Smriti – “An aspirant, householder, forest-dweller and even a recluse, desiring deliverance have to perform the actions to attain best of the status”. Sacrifice in the form of acquiring wisdom, charity in the form of fearlessness, and penance in the form of being a religious aspirant, should be performed. Those actions also are declared to be of the nature of sacrifices. Otherwise earlier statements will stand contradicted. Sri Krishna subscribes to the view that since performance of action by itself cannot be avoided by any persons belonging to the four aashramaas, what is desirable is renouncing the fruits and attachment towards them.
6. But these actions should be performed by giving up attachment to the fruits of performance. This, O Arjuna, is My decided and best of the views.
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