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Bhagavad Gita · 18.10 · Yoga through the Perfection of Renunciation and Surrender·10 of 78

न द्वेष्ट्यकुशलं कर्म कुशले नानुषज्जतेत्यागी सत्त्वसमाविष्टो मेधावी छिन्नसंशयः

na dveṣhṭy akuśhalaṁ karma kuśhale nānuṣhajjate

tyāgī sattva-samāviṣhṭo medhāvī chhinna-sanśhayaḥ

Sanskrit recitation

True renunciation · 18.1–18.12 · Teaching

Translation

The man of renunciation, pervaded by purity, intelligent, and with his doubts cut asunder, does not hate an unpleasant task nor is he attached to a pleasant one.

Meaning

All actions are eally welcome to the man of renunciation. He is not affected by either pleasure or pain. He is not elated at performing pleasant actions nor does he find unpleasantness when he does disagreeable actions. He does not hate the latter, nor is he attached to the former. Neither has he aversion to painful actions nor attraction to pleasant ones. As he has no attachment to any action or its rewards, he will do any action for the welfare of all beings.Akusalam Karma Disagreeable work or work done with expectation of reward, which becomes the cause of bondage to Samsara, by producing a body. He does not hate an unpleasnt action, thinking, Of what use is itKusale To good ones which include obligatory daily duties. He has no attachment to them even with the notion that they lead to salvation by purifying the heart and conseently giving rise to the dawn of knowledge and devotion to it.When one abandons attachment to action and desire for its reward and performs actions vigorously, his heart is filled with Sattva or purity which produces discrimination between the Real and the unreal, the Eternal and the transient. Then he attains knowledge of the Self which dispels all the doubts caused by ignorance. He now realises that the only means of attaining the spureme bliss or eternal peace or immortality is knowledge of the Self. This rends asunder all his doubts

After Swami Sivananda

True renunciation· 18.1–18.12

Teachers usually read this idea across several verses together, one shared reflection covers the whole unit.

Word-by-word
na
nor
karma
work
sattva
in the mode of goodness
tyāgī
one who renounces desires for enjoying the fruits of actions
kuśhale
to an agreeable
medhāvī
intelligent
akuśhalam
disagreeable
dveṣhṭi
hate
anuṣhajjate
seek
samāviṣhṭaḥ
endowed with
chhinna-sanśhayaḥ
those who have no doubts

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