Chapter 18, Verse 7
नियतस्य तु संन्यासः कर्मणो नोपपद्यते। मोहात्तस्य परित्यागस्तामसः परिकीर्तितः।।18.7।।
niyatasya tu saṃnyāsaḥ karmaṇo nopapadyate. mohāttasya parityāgastāmasaḥ parikīrtitaḥ॥18.7॥
Word by word
- niyatasya
- of prescribed (obligatory) duty
- tu
- but, indeed
- sannyāsaḥ
- renunciation, giving up
- karmaṇaḥ
- of action
- na upapadyate
- is not proper/fitting
- mohāt
- out of delusion
- tasya
- of that (duty)
- parityāgaḥ
- abandonment
- tāmasaḥ
- characterized by tamas (mode of ignorance)
- parikīrtitaḥ
- is declared/proclaimed
Commentary
7, Verily, the abandonment of an obligatory duty is not proper ; the abandonment thereof from ignorance is declared to be Tamasic.
Source: Alladi Mahadeva Sastri, The Bhagavad-Gita with the Commentary of Sri Shankaracharya (1897), public domain
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niyatasya
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tasya
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tāmasaḥ
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