English
Bhagavad Gita Chapter 18 Verse 8
Mokṣasaṃnyāsa Yoga · śloka 8
śloka 8
duḥkhamityeva yatkarma kāyakleśabhayāttyajet |
sa kṛtvā rājasaṃ tyāgaṃ naiva tyāgaphalaṃ labhet ||18-8||
Translation
The person who abandons action thinking it to be painful, out of fear of bodily hardship—that person, having performed that Rajasic abandonment, never attains the fruit of abandonment.
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