Sanskrit · Devanagari
अनिष्टमिष्टं मिश्रं च त्रिविधं कर्मणः फलम्। भवत्यत्यागिनां प्रेत्य न तु संन्यासिनां क्वचित् ॥
Sanskrit · IAST
aniṣṭamiṣṭaṃ miśraṃ ca trividhaṃ karmaṇaḥ phalam bhavatyatyāgināṃ pretya na tu saṃnyāsināṃ kvacit
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Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882The threefold fruit of action, agreeable, disagreeable, and mixed, accrues after death to those who are not possessed of abandonment, but never to renouncers.
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Śaṅkarācārya
।।18.12।। --,अनिष्टं नरकतिर्गयादिलक्षणम्? इष्टं देवादिलक्षणम्? मिश्रम् इष्टानिष्टसंयुक्तं मनुष्यलक्षणं च? तत् त्रिविधं त्रिप्रकारं कर्मणः,धर्माधर्मलक्षणस्य फलं बाह्यानेककारकव्यापारनिष्पन्नं सत् अविद्याकृतम् इन्द्रजालमायोपमं महामोहकरं प्रत्यगात्मोपसर्पि इव -- फल्गुतया लयम् अदर्शनं गच्छतीति फलनिर्वचनम् -- तत् एतत् एवंलक्षणं फलं भवति अत्यागिनाम् अज्ञानां कर्मिणां अपरमार्थसंन्यासिनां प्रेत्य शरीरपातात् ऊर्ध्वम्। न तु संन्यासिनां परमार्थसंन्यासिनां परमहंसपरिव्राजकानां केवलज्ञाननिष्ठानां क्वचित्। न हि केवलसम्यग्दर्शननिष्ठा अविद्यादिसंसारबीजं न उन्मूलयन्ति कदाचित् इत्यर्थः। अतः परमार्थदर्शिनः एव अशेषकर्मसंन्यासित्वं संभवति? अविद्याध्यारोपितत्वात् आत्मनि क्रियाकारकफलानाम् न तु अज्ञस्य अधिष्ठानादीनि क्रियाकर्तृकारकाणि आत्मत्वेनैव पश्यतः अशेषकर्मसंन्यासः संभवति।।तदेतत् उत्तरैः श्लोकैः दर्शयति --,
a02760b2c1fa…Rāmānuja
18.12 The 'undesirable result' is Naraka etc., 'the desirable' is heaven etc., 'the mixed' is sons, cows, food etc., which are combined with some undesirable results. Those who have not renounced, namely, those who are devoid of renunciation of agency, possessiveness and fruits - they meet with threefold conseences after death. The meaning of 'after death' (Pretya) may be understood as subseent to the performance of actions. But 'to those who have renounced, none whatsoever,' viz., to those who have relinished the sense of agency etc., no such results antagonistic to release accrue. Here the purport is this: Agnihotra, the great sacrifices etc. are obligatory throughout life and are reired for attaining the objects of desire; but in regard to release their application is different. Though externally they appear to be the same in their nature in both the conditions, they are different in their fruits by virtue of difference in application. Their application to release is seen in such texts as 'The Brahmanas desire to know Him by the study of the Vedas, by sacrifices, by gifts, by austerities conjoined with fasting' (Br. U., 4.4.22). Here the performance of actions without sense of agency is enforced. Such giving up agency etc., are relevant only with regard to acts that are actually performed. Thus Sannyasa or renouncing of this kind is established in the Sastras. The same is also called Tyaga or giving up. Sri Krsna now explains the manner of realising that one is non-agent, by attributing all agency to God, who is the Supreme Person and the Inner Ruler, By cultivating this attitude, an aspirant can attain the renunciation of possessiveness with regard to actions and also their fruits. For it is the Supreme Person who performs all actions through the individual selves who belong to Him. The organs, bodies and Pranas of embodied beings are His. They exist for the sake of His own sport as the only purpose. Therefore, even the appeasement of hunger etc., and such other acts which affect the life of the individual souls and their works constitute only the means for accomplishing that purpose, namely, the sport of the Highest Purusa Himself. The purport of the argument is this: The analogy of seeds producing the tree and its fruits is not applicable to the actions of release-seekers. Their actions may look like those of fruit-seekers externally. But as mentally they do not entertain any such purpose, the conseence of their actions can be ite different. The purpose served by their actions is only affording sport for the Supreme Being.
556bf7ce7adc…Swami Sivananda
18.12 अनिष्टम् unwished or disagreeable or evil? इष्टम् wished or agreeable or good? मिश्रम् mixed? च and? त्रिविधम् threefold? कर्मणः of action? फलम् fruit? भवति accrues? अत्यागिनाम् to nonrenouncers? प्रेत्य after death? न not? तु but? संन्यासिनाम् to renouncers? क्वचित् ever.Commentary One fruit (of action) is pleasant? another is unpleasant? while the third is a mixture of both. Those in whom good actions preponderate are rorn as gods. Men of evil lives are rorn into animal or vegetable kingdoms. If their actions are eally good and bad? they are rorn into the human kingodm. These distinctions of good? evil and mixed do not exist for the liberated sage who has gone beyond the bonds of Karma by destroying egoism? by annihilating the idea of agency and by abandoning the hope of rewards of actions.The action of a renouncer does not generate desire or attachment thereto. Therefore? after death he is not born again. The actions that are performed without any desire for the reward can bring no bondage to the man at any time.He who has surrendered the fruits of all his works to the Lord is free from the bondage of Karma. Some kind of action is inevitable and natural to all beings? but the man of renunciation abandons the fruits of actions.Phalam Fruit This is caused by the operation of various external factors. This is brought forth by Avidya (ignornace). It is like jugglery and very delusive. The term Phala denotes something that ickly passes away? something not real? not solid.Karma Action Virtue and vice.Anishtam Disagreeable or evil? such as hell? the animal kingdom? etc.Ishtam Wished or agreeable or good.Misram Good and evil mixed together the human birth.Only the unenlightened who have not renounced the fruits of actions reap these three sorts of fruits. The real Sannyasins who belong to the highest order of Sannyasa (Paramahamsa Parivrajakas) who are ever engaged in meditation on the pure? immortal Self? who are solely devoted to Selfknowledge? and who rest in their own essential nature as ExistenceKnowledgeBliss Absolute do not reap any fruits as the fire of Selfknowledge has burnt ignorance and its effects which are the seeds of Samsara.Only a liberated sage who has attained knowledge of the Self and who has no identification with the body can totally relinish all actions. He knows that the Self is beyond all actions and that action is attributed to the Self by ignorance. The ignorant man who identifies himself with the body cannot abandon actions. He thinks that he is the agent or the doer of all actions and expects to attain the fruits of his actions and so he is born again and again in this world to reap the fruits of these actions.
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