(KARMAYOGA) Difference between acts of sacrifice and renunciation
Posted by RisingCitizen at Saturday, June 19, 2010This distinction of understanding sacrifice and renunciation is very well explained in the GITA in a very simple manner. This is very important for us to know that GITA never preaches to leave everything, it strengthens us by telling what acts must never be prohibited.
At the end of the following verses, we can conclude because we can't give up desires and do action, if we give up the fruit of actions, then we have renounced our life i.e Sanyasa. This is the true meaning of SANYASA
TYAGA = sacrifice SANYASA = renunciation
"Arjuna, some sages understand Sanyasa as giving up of all actions motivated by desire; and other thinkers declare Tyaga consists in relinquishing the fruit of all actions."
(Chap 18 -verse 2)
"Some wise men say renounce an action due to it being a desire, while others say that acts of sacrifice, charity and penance are not worth shunning."
(Chap 18 -verse 3)
"Of Sanyasa and Tyaga, first hear My conclusion on the subject of Tyaga, Arjuna; for Tyaga, O tiger among men, has been declared to be of 3 kinds."
(Chap 18 -verse 4)
"Acts of sacrifice, charity and penance are not worth giving up; they must be performed. For sacrifice, charity and penance - all these are purifiers of wise men."
(Chap 18 -verse 5)
"Hence these acts of sacrifice, charity and penance, and all other acts too, must be performed as a matter of duty without attachment and hope of reward: this is My supreme verdict, Arjuna."
(Chap 18 -verse 6)
"Prescribed duties should never be renounced. If one gives up his prescribed duties because of illusion, such renunciation is said to be the mode of ignorance ( TAMASIKA)."
(Chap 18 -verse 7)
"Anyone who gives up prescribed duties as troublesome or out of fear of bodily discomfort is said to have renounced in the RAJASIKA (mode of passion). Such action never leads to the elevation of renunciation."
(Chap 18 -verse 8)"O Arjuna, when one performs his prescribed duty only because it ought to be done, and renounces all material association and all attachment to the fruit, his renunciation is said to be SATTVIKA."
(Chap 18 -verse 9)"He who shrinks not from action which does not bring lasting happiness, nor gets attached to that which is conducive to blessedness - imbued with quality of goodness, he has all his doubts resolved, is intelligent and a man of true renunciation."
(Chap 18 -verse 10)"Since all actions cannot be given up in their entirety by anyone possessing a body, he alone who renounces the fruit of actions is called a man of renunciation."
(Chap 18 -verse 11)"For one who has renounced, the threefold fruits of action - desirable, undesirable and mixed - accrue after death. But those who are in the renounced order of life have no such result to suffer or enjoy."
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