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Chapter 12
Renouncement of fruit (desire for fruit), of actions, is an independent means of God-realization. When, desire for the fruit of actions is renounced, attachment for the sense-objects, perishes and one attains peace (happiness, of the mode of goodness). If he does not enjoy that peace, he attains perfection or God-realization i.e., he becomes one, with Him.
In the fifty-fifth verse of the eleventh chapter, the Lord mentioned, 'freedom from attachment' as one mark, out of five, of a striver-devotee. In this verse, He mentions the renouncement of the fruit of actions, which is possible only, when there is renouncement of attachment, to the world. The renunciation of fruit of action, as described in the twelfth verse of the chapter, immediately leads to the attainment of Supreme Peace or God-realization. It means that total renunciation of attachment, immediately leads to Supreme Peace.
Appendix:—If a striver is unable to perform actions for God's sake, he should perform actions by renouncing the desire for fruit, because it is the desire for fruit which paves the way to bondage—'phale sakto nibadhyate' (Gita 5/12).
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