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Moksha Sanyasa Yoga · Liberation through Renunciation
Bhagavad Gita 18.30-32
Sanskrit
प्रवृत्तिं च निवृत्तिं च कार्याकार्ये भयाभये । बन्धं मोक्षं च या वेत्ति बुद्धिः सा पार्थ सात्त्विकी ॥18.30॥यया धर्ममधर्मं च कार्यं चाकार्यमेव च । अयथावत्प्रजानाति बुद्धिः सा पार्थ राजसी ॥18.31॥अधर्मं धर्ममिति या मन्यते तमसावृता । सर्वार्थान्विपरीतांश्च बुद्धिः सा पार्थ तामसी ॥18.32॥
Transliteration
pravṛttiṃ ca nivṛttiṃ ca kāryākārye bhayābhaye | bandhaṃ mokṣaṃ ca yā vetti buddhiḥ sā pārtha sāttvikī ‖18.30‖ yayā dharmamadharmaṃ ca kāryaṃ cākāryameva ca | ayathāvatprajānāti buddhiḥ sā pārtha rājasī ‖18.31‖ adharmaṃ dharmamiti yā manyate tamasāvṛtā | sarvārthānviparītāṃśca buddhiḥ sā pārtha tāmasī ‖18.32‖
Meaning
“The intellect that knows action and renunciation, what ought to be done and what ought not, fear and fearlessness, bondage and liberation, that intellect, O Partha, is sattvic. The intellect by which one wrongly understands dharma and adharma, what should and should not be done, that is rajasic. The intellect which, enveloped in darkness, regards adharma as dharma and sees all things reversed, that is tamasic.”
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Theme: Liberation through Renunciation
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