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Chapter 18
Mokshasanyaasa Yoga
Tatparya Nirnaya :- Serenity. self-restraint, austerity, purity, forbearance and uprighteousness, wisdom, knowledge, faith are actions ordained to a Brahmin according to their natural attributes. These attributes are found in Kshatriyas to a lesser extent, more in some rulers than even in Brahmins. Some rulers like Kartavirya are known to be like seers.
43. Valour, vigour, steadfastness, resourcefulness, not deserting the battle field, charity, and leadership are the attributes in a Kshatriya.
Tatparya Nirnaya :- Valour, vigour, steadfastness, resourcefulness and not deserting the battle field, charity and such other attributes are among Kshatriyas.
44 – 45 – 46 – 47 - 48. Cultivation, cattle breeding, trade are the acts and attributes in Vaishya; the performance of service is the attribute in Shudra. Each human being who is engaged in performance of actions (impelled by distinct attributes) attains perfection. How does such one engaged in his distinctive actions attains perfection? That you listen now from Me. He from whom all creatures are energized, by whom all this is pervaded, by propitiating whom and performance of one's actions the human being attains perfection. Superior is (the performance of action according to) one's own ordained Dharma, even though imperfectly performed than performance of actions according to Dharma ordained for others however perfectly they may be. Performance of ordained actions according to one's own attribute does not bring any demerits. The performance of one's action, O Arjuna, which is natural to one's own attribute should not be given up, even if it is defective, for all enterprises are enveloped by obscurity, even as the fire is by smoke.
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