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कार्यमित्येव यत्कर्म नियतं क्रियतेऽर्जुन। सङ्गं त्यक्त्वा फलं चैव स त्यागः सात्त्विको मतः ॥
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kāryamityeva yatkarma niyataṃ kriyate.arjuna saṅgaṃ tyaktvā phalaṃ caiva sa tyāgaḥ sāttviko mataḥ
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Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882he does not obtain the fruit of abandonment by making (such) passionate abandonment. When prescribed action is performed O Arjuna ! abandoning attachment and fruit also merely because it ought to be performed that is deemed (to be) a good abandonment. He who is possessed of abandonment being full of goodness and talented and having
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Śaṅkarācārya
।।18.9।। --,कार्यं कर्तव्यम् इत्येव यत् कर्म नियतं नित्यं क्रियते निर्वर्त्यते हे अर्जुन? सङ्गं त्यक्त्वा फलं च एव। एतत् नित्यानां कर्मणां फलवत्त्वे भगवद्वचनं प्रमाणम् अवोचाम। अथवा? यद्यपि फलं न श्रूयते नित्यस्य कर्मणः? तथापि नित्यं कर्म कृतम् आत्मसंस्कारं प्रत्यवायपरिहारं वा फलं करोति आत्मनः इति कल्पयत्येव अज्ञः। तत्र तामपि कल्पनां निवारयति फलं त्यक्त्वा इत्यनेन। अतः साधु उक्तम् सङ्गं त्यक्त्वा फलं च इति। सः त्यागः नित्यकर्मसु सङ्गफलपरित्यागः सात्त्विकः सत्त्वनिर्वृत्तः मतः अभिप्रेतः।।ननु कर्मपरित्यागः त्रिविधः संन्यासः इति च प्रकृतः। तत्र तामसो राजसश्च उक्तः त्यागः। कथम् इह सङ्गफलत्यागः तृतीयत्वेन उच्यते यथा त्रयो ब्राह्मणाः आगताः? तत्र षडङ्गविदौ द्वौ? क्षत्रियः तृतीयः इति तद्वत्। नैष दोषः त्यागसामान्येन स्तुत्यर्थत्वात्। अस्ति हि कर्मसंन्यासस्य फलाभिसंधित्यागस्य च त्यागत्वसामान्यम्। तत्र राजसतामसत्वेन कर्मत्यागनिन्दया कर्मफलाभिसंधित्यागः सात्त्विकत्वेन स्तूयते स त्यागः सात्त्विको मतः (गीता 18।9) इति।।यस्तु अधिकृतः सङ्गं त्यक्त्वा फलाभिसंधिं च नित्यं कर्म करोति? तस्य फलरागादिना अकलुषीक्रियमाणम् अन्तःकरणं नित्यैश्च कर्मभिः संस्क्रियमाणं विशुध्यति। तत् विशुद्धं प्रसन्नम् आत्मालोचनक्षमं भवति। तस्यैव नित्यकर्मानुष्ठानेन विशुद्धान्तःकरणस्य आत्मज्ञानाभिमुखस्य क्रमेण यथा तन्निष्ठा स्यात्? तत् वक्तव्यमिति आह --,
d7e569085620…Rāmānuja
18.9 When rites like obligatory and occasional ceremonies and the great sacrifices enjoined on one's station and stage in life, are practised for their own sake, as worship of Myself and as a duty, relinishing possessiveness and fruits - such abandonment is regarded as Sattvika. It is noted in Sattva. The idea is that it is rooted in the knowledge of the meaning of the Sastras as it really is. That Sattva generates the knowledge of things as they really are, has been taught in: 'From Sattva arises knowledge' (14.17), and it will be further declared: 'That reason by which one knows action and renunciation, what ought to be done and what ought not to be done, fear and fearlessness, bondage and release, O Arjuna, is Sattvika' (18.30).
a754f98cee12…Swami Sivananda
18.9 कार्यम् ought to be done? इति thus? एव even? यत् which? कर्म action? नियतम् obligatory? क्रियते is performed? अर्जुन O Arjuna? सङ्गम् attachment? त्यक्त्वा abandoning? फलम् fruit? च and? एव even? सः that? त्यागः abandonment? सात्त्विकः Sattvic (pure)? मतः is regarded.Commentary A man of pure nature performs actions that have fallen to his lot in accordance with his capacity and his inherent nature. He is not filled with the pride that he is the performer of such actions nor does he hope for any gain therefrom.An ignorant man may think that the obligatory duties may produce their fruits for the performer by causing selfpurification and preventing the sin of omission or nonperformance. This sort of thinking and expectation of rewards also must be abandoned. Abandonment of the rewards of actions is praised in this verse.When a man does obligatory duties without agency and with unselfishness and egolessness his,mind is purified? his Antahkarana is prepared for the reception of the divine light or the dawn of Selfknowledge. He gradually becomes fit for devotion to knowledge (JnanaNishtha).The aspirant or seeker after liberation should be prepared to undergo physical sufferings. All acts of selfdiscipline and selfsacrifice entail physical suffering.This? again? is the central teaching of the Gita -- do your duty without attachment and selfish desires.
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