Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 18, Verse 8
दुःखमित्येव यत्कर्म कायक्लेशभयात्त्यजेत् । स कृत्वा राजसं त्यागं नैव त्यागफलं लभेत्
duḥkhamityeva yatkarma kāyakleśabhayāttyajet | sa kṛtvā rājasaṃ tyāgaṃ naiva tyāgaphalaṃ labhet
Translation
Whatever act one may abandon because it is painful, from fear of bodily trouble, he practises Rājasic abandonment, and he shall obtain no fruit whatever of abandonment.
— Alladi Mahadeva Sastri
Word meanings
- duḥkham
- pain
- iti
- thus
- eva
- even
- yat
- which
- karma
- action
- kāyakleśabhayāt
- of body, of pain, from fear
- tyajet
- may abandon
- saḥ
- he
- kṛtvā
- having done
- rājasam
- rājasic
- tyāgam
- abandonment
- na
- not
- eva
- even
- tyāgaphalam
- of abandonment, the fruit
- labhet
- may obtain
Śaṅkarācārya's commentary
He does not obtain mokṣa, which is the fruit of the renunciation of all actions accompanied with wisdom.