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Bhagavad Gītā 18.7

BG 18.7

नियतस्य तु संन्यासः कर्मणो नोपपद्यते।मोहात्तस्य परित्यागस्तामसः परिकीर्तितः

niyatasya tu sannyāsaḥ karmaṇo nopapadyate mohāt tasya parityāgas tāmasaḥ parikīrtitaḥ

It is not right to give up actions which are obligatory; and if they are misunderstood, it is the result of sheer ignorance.

Translated by Shri Purohit Swami

Verily, the renunciation of obligatory action is not proper; the abandonment of the same out of delusion is declared to be Tamasic.

Translated by Swami Sivananda

Word meanings (from the gita/gita dataset)

niyatasya—of prescribed duties; tu—but; sanyāsaḥ—renunciation; karmaṇaḥ—actions; na—never; upapadyate—to be performed; mohāt—deluded; tasya—of that; parityāgaḥ—renunciation; tāmasaḥ—in the mode of ignorance; parikīrtitaḥ—has been declared

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Cite as: Bhagavad Gītā 18.7, in HREEM (hreem.cc/library/BG/18.7), after https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/gita/gita@main (gita/gita on GitHub, Unlicense).

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