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नियतस्य तु संन्यासः कर्मणो नोपपद्यते।मोहात्तस्य परित्यागस्तामसः परिकीर्तितः।।18.7।।

niyatasya tu sannyāsaḥ karmaṇo nopapadyate mohāt tasya parityāgas tāmasaḥ parikīrtitaḥ

Sanskrit Chant Recitation
Chapter 18, Verse 7
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Sanskrit to English Translation

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

A Reading - Rantideb

Why: renunciation of obligatory duty is not proper, abandoning it out of delusion is declared to be of the nature of ignorance, naming a specific, common error, mistaking confused avoidance of duty for genuine spiritual renunciation.

In life: sometimes people dress up genuine avoidance or confusion about a responsibility as if it were a wise, deliberate spiritual choice to step back, when it's actually closer to simple confusion or avoidance.

Teaching: honestly examine a responsibility you've recently stepped back from, and check whether that stepping back was a genuinely considered choice or simply confused avoidance dressed up as something wiser than it actually was.

niyatasyaof prescribed duties
tubut
sanyāsaḥrenunciation
karmaṇaḥactions
nanever
upapadyateto be performed
mohātdeluded
tasyaof that
parityāgaḥrenunciation
tāmasaḥin the mode of ignorance
parikīrtitaḥhas been declared

Deep Classical Commentary (Bhashya)

Author:
18.7 नियतस्य obligatory? तु verily? संन्यासः renunciation? कर्मणः of action? न not? उपपद्यते is proper? मोहात् from delusion? तस्य of the same? परित्यागः abandonment? तामसः Tamasic? परिकीर्तितः is declared.Commentary Renunciation of obligatory action is not proper because it is purifying in the case of an ignorant man. Should a man renounce actions that he should perform as a duty? such renunciation can only be of the ality of darkness. Prescribed duties must not be abandoned and if anyone does so? he is certainly deluded by ignorance. Tamas is ignorance.Niyata Prescribed according to ones religion. To hold that a duty is obligatory and then to relinish it is indeed selfcontradictory.